A nice place for some IndieWeb…
Month: July 2020
Interesting to see their new set up for curbside pick up using their mobile app. Pretty slick little operation. I kinda miss going in to pick it up though.
Leveling myself up as a developer and a human at #WPCampus today.
https://2020.wpcampus.org/
https://2020.wpcampus.org/
I know that it’s here, but I didn’t realize until I arrived at the Seed parking lot that Gladstone’s shares the same parking lot. Had to stop in for a donut to eat on the way home from the “other” bakery. 🙂
Picking up a couple of loaves to go. They’ve got a pretty efficient coronavirus set up here with their front door cordoned off with plastic and a table to serve across.
Picking up some random odds and ends.
Steve Ryan from WPCampus 2020 Online - July 29-30 - Where WordPress meets Higher EducationWithin higher education, requests to build websites for individual faculty members sit at the absolute bottom of the work queue for most marketing/communications teams. If this type of product is offered at all, it typically uses a self-service model; the institution will provide the platform while the faculty member will provide the content. And while this is the most sustainable model for most small and mid-sized web teams, it tends to produce multiple websites that are ineffective at communicating even simple messages. Worse, they have a high tendency to become the poorest reflections of the institution with a high rate of abandonment or misuse.
Let's fix that tendency together. With a careful examination of what really matters to faculty members who are looking to create and maintain their own websites, we can begin to build better sites. With better sites (and a little luck), you can start to derive value from the project at the bottom of your work pile.
Together we'll talk about:
- A simple analysis of the types of content that you'll typically find within a faculty website.
- A "wish list" for the types of content that you (as a marketer) would really like to see from these types of sites.
- A working example of a theme that delivers on these key concepts and adds some "quick wins" which makes for a better experience.
- How to leverage the capabilities of WordPress multisite to produce more value from collections of these type of sites.
This is an awesome little session at WPCampus 2020 Online. (Video for it available shortly.) It reminds me a lot of the Drupal project Open Scholar that does something similar. I can see it being useful for folks in the Domain of One’s Own space.
I totally want to start using something like this myself to not only test it out, but to build in the proper microformats v2 mark up so that it’s IndieWeb friendly. Perhaps a project at the planned IWC Pop-up Theme raising session?
- Project description and examples: https://asuengineering.github.io/asu-labs-theme/
- GitHub repo: https://github.com/asuengineering/asu-labs-theme
Tulane University has 3 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
Particularly looking at their St. Charles theme for WordPress
Any questions? Ask in the IndieWeb chat!
Notes for the meetup's etherpad.
This week's event host: Chris Aldrich
Homebrew Website Club is a meetup for anyone interested in personal websites and a distributed web. Whether you’re a blogger, coder, designer, or just someone who wants to improve their presence on the web, this meetup is for you.6:00pm–7:30pm IndieWeb Meetup
* Demos of personal website breakthroughs
* Discussion around the independent web
* Get to know other members of the IndieWeb!
* Create or update your personal web site!
* Finish that blog post you’ve been working on!Join a community with like-minded interests. Bring friends that want a personal site, or are interested in a healthy, independent web!
RSVP (optional)
If your website supports it, post an indie RSVP.
Or, log in and click “I'm Going” on the event. If none of that means anything to you, don't worry about it; just show up!Now weekly!
Check events.indieweb.org for next week's meetup! There are some meetups in European and US Eastern time zones as well.
I’m hosting Homebrew Website Club next Wednesday and hope you’ll be able to join us.
Directed by David Slade. With Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul, Dean Norris. While Walt worries about Gus's interference and Jesse's increasingly fragile state of mind, Skyler steps up the pressure to get what she wants.
Directed by Colin Bucksey. As Skyler concocts an elaborate story to explain the Whites' finances, a worried Walt discovers that Hank has begun a new investigation.
Lecture 19: Politics and Literature in Wales
Unveil the turbulent story of English conquest in Wales with this insightful glimpse into Welsh history that includes the unfortunate influence of misplaced loyalty to family that cost the Welsh their sovereignty forever. Then, look at Welsh literature, particularly the wonderful but enigmatic myths of the Mabinogi and the witty poems of Dafydd ap Gwilym.
I appreciates that she shares a few of her favorite pieces of literature from the time to give a flavor of the culture. Some denser history here which could be an entire course in and of itself.