CoPress

The big news this week was BarCamp Philly on April 25, which a majority of CoPress attended. The day was a great success – filled with insightful conversations and great networking. Where else will find new media thinkers all in the same room trying to solve the problems in the industry? If you missed out on all the fun, check out the media from the day’s events.

Around the Network

This past week Greg Linch started an interesting conversation on the Forum by asking, “Do you plan to redesign or in any other way redo your college news site this summer? If so, please explain.”

Responses came in quite quickly with Connect2Mason, Whitman Pioneer, TheCampusBuzz, and The Daily Tar Heel are among the sites that are looking to redesign this summer.

On the wiki this week, Emily updated the WordPress Examples page with a list of college media organizations currently on WordPress.

In the News

Last but not least, here are the top four links from the past week that you should check out this weekend (via the CoPress Publish2 Newsgroup):

• CoTweet! – How business does Twitter – Designed for businesses using Twitter to engage existing customers and attract new ones, CoTweet is a comprehensive Twitter business platform that supports both proactive marketing communication and response-driven customer support.
• Courant News Project Site – The Courant News Project has launched a site with more detailed information on their open source CMS based on Django.
• Getting Journalism Education Out of the Way -  Just maybe journalism education gets in the way of cultivating good journalists. After all, more than half of the 59 percent of print journalists who won Pulitzer Prizes never studied journalism.
• Announcing WordPress Plugin Competition (3.0) – The competition runs for three months from May 1st to July 31st.
• First Look at the Daily Tar Heel -  The Daily Tar Heel and it’s brand new look.