ASU Blog and Wiki Service
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ASU Blogs

What is a blog?

The term “blog” is short for “weblog”. As blogger.com has so eloquently put, “A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world. Your blog is whatever you want it to be. There are millions of them, in all shapes and sizes.”


What is the ASU Blog Service?

ASU is providing all students, faculty and staff the ability to create their own blog. In fact, you can create as many as you wish! You’ll recognize the blog software ASU is offering (Wordpress) because President Crow’s blog and Adrian Sannier’s blog both use this software.


Why is ASU providing this service?

We think this technology is so important for communication in today’s world, that we want to promote the use of blogs by everyone at ASU. The ASU blog service is starting small, but you can use your ASURITE UserID to sign on, auto-create your blog, become part of the blog directory and have your blog searched under the “ASU Blog” umbrella. In the future, you will be able to create blogs automatically for ASU classes or other university groups, without the need to manage accounts and access.


Feedback

We really want to know what you think of the service and what your suggestions are for improvement. Please provide us with feedback on the process for getting started, features you’d like to see or whatever you think might be an improvement. Let’s get going!


New Features

 Wiki Manager

 Improved directory tool

 Theme editor for blogs

 My Blogs Manager

 Google search all ASU blogs and wikis

Coming soon

 Improvements to Wiki Manager

 Blog & Wiki statistics

 Blog and Wiki Spotlight

 Automatic groups (e.g. classes)

 

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