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CoPress ended in the same way it started: a conference call. Wednesday evening, roughly 20 people joined us on a final debrief call as we explained our decision to terminate operations.
Full audio of the hour-long call can be heard below.
During the debrief, each team member wrapped up a significant takeaway that they’ve gained [...]

 

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Last Thursday a few of us gathered to talk about the development projects that will be seeing heavy work over the winter break. Max Cutler, Andrew Dunn, Will, Daniel, and Lauren joined me for a half hour conversation covering the various projects that we are all working on. The full audio is attached at the [...]

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Today was the last day of the 2009 ACP/CMA Conference in Austin, TX and this morning the winners of the annual “Best in Show” awards were named. You can view the full list on the ACP website.
We want to extend a very special congratulations to the College Heights Herald, winner of the best Publication Website among large [...]

#ncmc09 General Session with Steve Outing

This week, CoPress directors Daniel Bachhuber, Andrew Spittle, Lauren Rabaino and Adam Hemphill are attending the National College Media Convention in Austin, Texas. These are reports from the field. For more updates, follow the conversation on Twitter.
In the “Townsquare” session, led by Arvil Ward and Anthony Pesce, the Populous Project was demoed. The Populous Project is [...]

Andy Dehnart from Reality Blurred demoed Facebook, Twitter, Google Maps, and Google Voice among other things at the ACP/CMA 2009 conference. He started with a recap of how Facebook fan pages can benefit your news organization. Among other things the insights that Facebook offers could prove useful to figuring out how effective campaigns are.
He said [...]

This past Thursday we ran the first of what will become a bi-weekly series. We’re calling it “Hacking the Student Newsroom.” Each session will lead you through a specific skill related to WordPress and college news that you can implement immediately. We’ll also do our best to record the workshops for those who can’t make [...]

When hacking the student newsroom, you need a safe sandbox with which to experiment. That’s why this Thursday — at 4 PM Pacific/7 PM Eastern — we’re going to show you how to set up a WordPress instance solely for development purposes. If interested, you should RSVP to the Facebook Event as space will be [...]

Last year, as part of my day job, I helped relaunch the Whitman Pioneer with a new design. This year we wanted to keep innovating and decided to try an online-first workflow at the beginning of this semester. This means that we are now having reporters write all of their posts in WordPress and then copying [...]

This past Thursday was the last session of the summer for the Design Camp. Jackie Hai from the Amherst Wire led Daniel, Joey, Lauren, Greg, Kevin Koehler, Ben Leis, and myself through some of the different considerations that go into designing pages for special features.
Designing Special Feature Pages
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