Comments on: Wiki Recommendations http://www.robfay.com/2006/06/05/wiki-recommendations/ Rob Fay has over twelve years of experience supporting federal, state, and commercial information technology and product development initiatives. He has a passion for user experience topics including information architecture, interaction design, social media, information management, and usability. Mr. Fay currently works as Blackboard's User Experience Architect. In his role of being the user advocate, he leads the company's user research efforts, curates their design pattern library, and designs products that transform the experience of education. Rob holds graduate degrees in Information Management and Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Maryland, College Park. He lives in the outskirts of DC in suburban Maryland with his wife, twin 4 yo daughters, and his dog named Mattingly. Mon, 10 May 2010 18:46:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Rob Fay http://www.robfay.com/2006/06/05/wiki-recommendations/comment-page-1/#comment-4620 Rob Fay Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:00:20 +0000 http://robfay.com/2006/06/05/wiki-recommendations/#comment-4620 One of the problems with EduPress is that it is not a hosted solution. It's simply a customized WordPress download that you install yourself. On the other hand, <a href="http://edublogs.org/" rel="nofollow">Edublogs</a> is a hosted solution, even bundling a wiki. I've taken a peek at it, but they do not offer the blog privacy options that EduPress offers. It might just be easier to host a new installation of WordPress on this domain and include the plugins that would provide for the needed privacy. One of the problems with EduPress is that it is not a hosted solution. It’s simply a customized WordPress download that you install yourself.

On the other hand, Edublogs is a hosted solution, even bundling a wiki. I’ve taken a peek at it, but they do not offer the blog privacy options that EduPress offers.

It might just be easier to host a new installation of WordPress on this domain and include the plugins that would provide for the needed privacy.

]]> By: Rob Fay http://www.robfay.com/2006/06/05/wiki-recommendations/comment-page-1/#comment-4619 Rob Fay Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:00:14 +0000 http://robfay.com/2006/06/05/wiki-recommendations/#comment-4619 Hi Dorine, I stumbled across EduPress as well but was unsure how this variation of WordPress set itself apart from WordPress. If it does offer a way for content to remain hidden from the outside world in a universal fashion rather than page by page or post by post, then it might have some utility. I'll keep you posted... Hi Dorine,

I stumbled across EduPress as well but was unsure how this variation of WordPress set itself apart from WordPress. If it does offer a way for content to remain hidden from the outside world in a universal fashion rather than page by page or post by post, then it might have some utility.

I’ll keep you posted…

]]> By: Dorine Ruter http://www.robfay.com/2006/06/05/wiki-recommendations/comment-page-1/#comment-4618 Dorine Ruter Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:58:19 +0000 http://robfay.com/2006/06/05/wiki-recommendations/#comment-4618 Hi Rob, Though I haven't installed and tried this out, <a href="http://edupress.mrbelshaw.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">EduPress</a> might be what you are looking for. It's WordPress for educators, also free and open source. Even if you're not an educator, features like: <blockquote>"Option to make whole or parts of blog password-protected"</blockquote> can be very useful. I'd be interested to hear which tool you finally chose, how you introduced it to your group at work and what your experiences are. Hi Rob,
Though I haven’t installed and tried this out, EduPress might be what you are looking for. It’s WordPress for educators, also free and open source. Even if you’re not an educator, features like:
“Option to make whole or parts of blog password-protected”

can be very useful.

I’d be interested to hear which tool you finally chose, how you introduced it to your group at work and what your experiences are.

]]> By: Jason http://www.robfay.com/2006/06/05/wiki-recommendations/comment-page-1/#comment-4617 Jason Tue, 06 Jun 2006 12:13:58 +0000 http://robfay.com/2006/06/05/wiki-recommendations/#comment-4617 Sad thing is, as long as you go for "FREE", you will always have things that are not intuitive. We use <a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/" rel="nofollow">MediaWiki</a> Sad thing is, as long as you go for “FREE”, you will always have things that are not intuitive.

We use MediaWiki

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