CoPress

I’m a day late on this post, but there were some epic developments this week that I feel I have to share.

Around the Network

We kicked off a lively discussion in the forum on Monday asking, “What are your website goals for the rest of the semester?” A number of great ideas have surfaced from the community. Some highlights from Josh Halliday‘s response:

• Work on cross-promotion of our student-run University radio station – perhaps an app on the homepage, or even its own separate page?
• Print more posters for on-campus advertising/recruiting
• Greater attention to our online community – MORE CONVERSATION, perhaps recruit a ‘community manager’ to maintain Facebook page, Twitter account etc.

There were dozens of other goals posted, so be sure to take a look.

Also, on the forum, we have our first discussion in the WordPress section:

• Users: How to deal with them year-to-year?

Wiki-tastic

Not much to report here, so let’s change that for next week! We want you to help add to our knowledge, which is also YOUR knowledge base.

A couple quick notes:

• After discovering mass quantities of spam, we’ve decided to require a basic registration to edit the wiki – just so we can make sure everything is kosher.
• We’ve added the Simple Press plugin (which we use for our forum) to the appropriate page.

In the News

Four links you should have clicked on in the past week (via the CoPress Publish2 Newsgroup):

• San Francisco Post-Chronicle wiki – @alexismadrigal and @sarahrose have started planning for the new SF Chronicle.
• How college media uses Twitter – this follows a list of student media in the Twittersphere compiled by CICM. No surprise with the results: 40 percent of student media on Twitter has “mostly or entirely RSS feeds.” On the plus side, at least they know about RSS.
• Bring a professor chat wrap-up – from our good friends at CollegeJourn. Congrats on a successful event!
• Interview with Marc Andreessen on Charlie Rose - Marc says that newspapers should shut down their presses today. The whole video is worth watching.

And a bonus link:

• CSS presentation for online journalism – from the Amherst Wire, which is offering a series of workshops for staff.