Do you want to work with students to publish class assignments or research?
Instructors use PressForward in the classroom to consolidate and review student assignments, help students learn to survey their fields, and create opportunities for collaboration, communication, and research. The Lewis & Clark College Environmental Studies Program produces Environment Across Boundaries, a student-led publication that cultivates interdisciplinary perspectives on environmental issues. Participation gives students an opportunity to engage with their discipline through experiential, project based learning. They develop skills both in their field and with a suite of digital tools.
An interesting use case for PressForward: creating a "planet" website to aggregate and/or showcase work of students in an entire classroom who are all posting content to their own separate web spaces. Sketch idea: create a standalone WordPress site for a course, install the PressForward plugin, input the RSS feeds for students' websites to aggregate…
The PressForward team is happy to announce the release of PressForward 5.0, which features a new statistics API that will provide specialized altmetrics data associated with the PressForward editorial workflow. This latest release also includes an opt-in feature for gathering diagnostics and a number of bug fixes and performance enhancements.
One of the questions that the PressForward team gets repeatedly is how publications can use custom fields to automatically print data about a post once it is published. Publications often wish to display a generic name, such as “The Editors,” on a post rather than the name of the user who published the post. On Digital Humanities Now we use custom fields to store the names of our Editors-at-Large for the week a piece is featured as well as the name of the Editor-in-Chief for that week.
I've recently been attempting to own all of my online bookmarks and online articles I'd like to read to replace services like Pocket and Instapaper. While I feel like I'm almost there using PressForward, there are still one or two rough edges. One of them is creating a simple mobile workflow to take headlines from Twitter…
I've just noticed that the metadata PressForward scrapes is enough to allow highlights and marginalia from Hypothes.is on the original web page to also appear in my copy on my own website! How awesome is that? Example: http://boffosocko.com/2017/01/19/obamas-secret-to-surviving-the-white-house-years-books-the-new-york-times/ #ownallthethings
As many know, for the past 6 months or so, I've been slowly improving some of the IndieWeb tools and workflow I use to own what I'm reading both online and in physical print as well as status updates indicating those things. [1][2][3] Since just before IndieWebCamp LA, I've been working on better ways to…
When the Humanities Commons team started to spin up hcommons.social I started to wonder if this platform would be a way to conduct my microblogging activities in a space that might have a better distribution network, allowing my work to be more visible.
OMG! There is so much to love here about these processes and to see people in the wild experimenting with them and figuring them out. Scott (@schopie1), you are not alone! There are lots of us out here doing these things, not only with WordPress but a huge variety of other platforms. There are many…
In a digital era with a seemingly ever-decreasing number of larger news outlets paying journalists and other writers for their work, the number of working writers who find themselves working for one or more outlets is rapidly increasing. This is sure to leave journalists wondering how to better serve their own personal brand either when…
How to provide better credit on the web using the standard rel=“canonical” by looking at an example from the Open Learner Patchbook A couple of weeks back, I noticed and began following Cassie Nooyen when I became aware of her at the Domains 2019 conference which I followed fairly closely online. She was a presenter…
Blogmesh aims to make blogging more social, and in doing so create an alternative for existing social networks. The main idea is to connect existing blogs in a way that resembles other social networks, like Twitter. Simply follow your friends and see a timeline of their updates.
Because blogs are usually self-hosted, this means Blogmesh has the potential to become a decentralized network that belongs to its users, and where every user owns their own content.
Blogmesh uses existing, well-established standards like RSS. This means that many existing sites are already Blogmesh-ready.
I ran across a reference to Blogmesh this morning via the Twitter hashtag for #IndieWeb. (hat tip to @Bjorn_W) Hi @simonw remember blogmesh? my friend @roytanck behind blogmesh made this https://t.co/wMPe5tQpVC to show how to re-blog. This proof-of-concept uses WordPress. It's super easy to re-create the social aspects of walled garden social media with RSS…
Ian, thanks for putting together all of these examples. I think my preference is for option three which provides the most context and seems easiest to read and understand. I like the way you've incorporated the blue arrow, which makes semantic sense as well. I'm sure I've seen other versions, but Jon Udell has at…
There's so much great material out there to read and not nearly enough time. The question becomes: "How to best organize it all, so you can read even more?" I just came across a tweet from Michael Nielsen about the topic, which is far deeper than even a few tweets could do justice to, so…