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Lauren Rabaino and I spoke with a few Web staffers from The Chronicle at Duke University for the latest episode of College Media Lab (the renamed This Week in CoPress). Our guests were:

• Alex Klein (@alexklein), online editor
• Dean Chen (@deanchen), lead developer
• Chase Olivieri (@chasefoto), multimedia editor

As you might have seen, Alex wrote a blog post for CoPress about their recent switch from College Publisher to Drupal. Here’s a summary of what we discussed in the podcast:

• Why they chose Drupal
• How the switch went
• How they’re building a Web staff
• Multimedia
• New commenting policy and their comment system

Listen in!

College Media Lab: The Chronicle at Duke switches to Drupal [ 45:44 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2520)

This Week in CoPress is getting a lot more interactive! Tonight (April 6th) at 6 p.m. Greg Linch and Emily Kostic will be taking calls and chatting online with listeners on BlogTalkRadio.

Tonight’s topic of discussion? Your web plans for next year. We’ll be talking to future EICs (and those running for that position) about how they plan to make their publications more Web savvy, bring in more money online, reorganizing a staff for the Web, or whatever else they come up with. We want to start a conversation and hear your ideas on how you plan on helping your college publication become more tech-focused.

If you can’t tune in at 6 p.m. ET, check back here on Wednesday to see a recorded version of the show.

This Week in CoPress: Monday at 6 p.m. ET on Blogtalkradio. Same great guests, only now you get to be a part of the conversation.

We love bringing you This Week in CoPress every week, and are working with how to make it more interactive. Next week’s solution? We’ll do it live! Same great guests, only now you get to be a part of the conversation. Here’s a bit of what we’re thinking:

Launch date: Week of April 5th

Length of Show: 30 minutes. This could change after the first week if we decide we need more time, but we think it’s better to run out of time the first week than to scramble to come up with things to say.

Number of Hosts: 2 . We’re going to try to make this more conversational, so it will be best to have two people who are familiar with one another that can also bounce off each other.

Number  of Guests: Ideally just 1. Having too many guests could easily get out of hand, especially since we’ll also be dealing with people calling in and people in the chat room.

When to Record: Dun-Dun-Dun! The controversial question. What do you think?