The internet Society (New York Chapter) is archiving what it can find about WCNYC over here.

Scroll down to Sunday, and there’s video & audio of my unconference session, which I think went much better, way meatier than the previous day’s presentation. I really like the unconferencing part – much more give & take between the speaker and the attendees.

• October 19, 2009 — WordCamp New York (1)
• December 18, 2008 — WordPress Video Solution Framework for WPMU (13)

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As everyone begins to put their final audio and video projects onto their blogs I wanted to mention a few plugins and tricks that might be helpful. The first plugin is Podcasting. You can use this plugin to include audio (mp3 and mp4) and video (mov and mp4) in your posts. With the plugin enabled you’ll have a new panel in your Add New Post page called Podcasting

It will take a File URL which you can get when you upload the file by clicking the File URL button in the upload interface.

Just copy the file URL from the upload screen and paste it into the File URL box of the Podcasting panel and click Add. After you click Add the Podcasting panel will look like this

Clicking Send to editor will add the required text to your post for including the .mov, .mp4, or .mp3 file. If you used iMovie or Garageband to create your audio or video file it may have saved the file as a .m4v or .m4a. You can just change the extension to .mp4 and it should upload to your blog. You can adjust the settings for the Podcasting plugin by visiting the settings under the Settings panel.

If you are using an online video service like Youtube then you can enable the WordPress Video Plugin. This plugin will allow you to embed a video in your post using a short code like [service videoid]. You can reference the Short code instructions for examples on using the plugin for each of the supported services. You should also be able to use the Press This bookmarklet found under Tools to embed video and other files in your posts. You can find some good examples of using Press This at http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/automate-blogging-tasks-with-press-this-for-wordpress/.I hope this helps you complete your projects and if you have any problems just contact Instructional Technology.

I have been following the Bates Online Media blog for about a year.  They have been blogging as they’ve worked through a pretty dramatic redesign of the college web site.  The fact that is built on WordPress is probably the least important feature (but the WordPress geek in me does thrill just a bit at the news.)  With my eldest now a freshman at Springfield college, we all spent a lot of time as consumers on college sites — and from the user perspective the Bates site is very smartly laid out, and is easy to use.  Nice to see such a great end-result after a careful and productive planning process.

Bates College goes beyond the usual homepage redesign with Home 4 running on WordPress | collegewebeditor.com

We have been managing the site in WordPress since the beginning, first as a proof-of-concept with student assistants at WordPress.com, then as a working prototype with WP 2.8 software on an external hosting service, and now hosted on a campus Web server…The slideshows are handled with NextGenGallery, with the overlays via Thickbox and jquery. We’re using a number of plugins to enable shortcodes for editors along with WP-Table Reloaded for organization of tabular data originating in DabbleDB. We had over 30,000 views on launch day — about double the load of an average day — all served by WP-SuperCache.

Bates College

Bates Views is a site of thoughtful text, images, audio and video. Click a category below to expand

One Bates. Many Journeys. « Bates Online Media

I’m sharing the current draft of a vision paper on ways such an education might be expanded through online collaboration.

It’s 12-pages long, so here is a PDF version (2.1 MB download). It’s an evolving draft, so please send comments and suggestions for improvements.

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Have you caught the buzz on Google Wave?  It is open source.  The promise is it will make you forget it is running in a browser.  It is all about web-based communication and collaboration.  It is the brain child of the Google Maps creators.  It is not in general release yet, but  you can see a demo.  Very promising — I particularly like the more open approach.

Google Wave Preview

Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year. Watch the demo video below, sign up for updates and learn more about how to develop with Google Wave.

Google’s Much-Anticipated Wave Opens Up a Bit – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com

But so far, Wave, a shared online desktop where groups of users can exchange messages, share and edit documents, drag and drop widgets and play games, has been available only to a select group of developers. On Tuesday, Google is rolling out Wave to a slightly-less-select group: 100,000 users, including developers, people who signed up early on and some users of Google Apps, the company’s package of online applications.

Google Wave Preview

Google Wave uses an open protocol, so anyone can build their own wave system.  Learn more at www.waveprotocol.org.

Google Wave API – Google Code

The Google Wave API allows developers to use and enhance Google Wave through two primary types of development:

* Extensions: Build robot extensions to automate common tasks or build gadget extensions to provide a new way for users to interact
* Embed: Make your site more collaborative by dropping in a Wave

What is a favicon? No not something from the Transformers universe!  According to Wikipedia “A favicon (short for favorites icon), also known as a website icon, shortcut icon, url icon, or bookmark icon is a 16×16, 32×32 or 64×64 pixel square icon associated with a particular website or webpage” – wikipedia.  But it is also fun — and easy to create utilizing Photoshop or other graphics programs.  All the best-dressed web sites have one.  In helping someone get up and started with the ICO format I came across this really helpful free photoshop plug-in.  If you are favicon-challenged give it a try.

Telegraphics – Free plugins for Photoshop & Illustrator…and other software

ICO (Windows Icon) Format
An easy way to create your web site’s favourites/shortcut/bookmark icon in Photoshop (all versions including CS and CS2), Elements or Paint Shop Pro (v9 recommended). More info. FREE, $5 donation suggested if you love the plugin. (MacHouse has a video tutorial on making a favicon.)

MacHouse – A World of Video Tutorials » Blog Archive » How to Create Fav Icons

This VTC quickly shows how to make fav icons (or favorite icons), which often appear before the URL when you connect a site with an Internet browser. We use Adobe Photoshop and a donationware plugin by telegraphics that is available for Macs and Windows.

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