Pressible Development

Talking Entrepreneurship

I'm excited to have the chance to visit a Teachers College class today (ORLA 4501: Entrepreneurship and Education) and discuss Pressible and related communications strategies. Pressible is a publishing platform developed (and currently hosted) by the Gottesman Libraries at Teachers College. Here are some things individuals and groups can do with Pressible: Publish! (share written …

A Good Meeting about Identity

Brian and I just had a meeting with one of our partners from the Arts and Humanities department where we discussed ideas about future features and iterations of Pressible. The Pressible team tries to focus on outreach with our existing users as much as possible so it is nice to be able to sit down and …

Thanks Luke!

We had the pleasure of receiving a little positive feedback from Luke over at Baruch College about our Wordpress presentation.   He is actually working on a blog project for their school as well (called "Blogs@Baruch", members only access).  We appreciate the positive words and look forward to talking to you about stuff like this …

Wordcamp NYC 2010

If you're interested in hearing about the process of developing Pressible, make your way down to Baruch College's "vertical campus" this weekend. Eric Buth and Patrick Carey will be discussing Pressible at Wordcamp on Saturday. Check back soon for details about their presentation!

Pressible Workshops and Office Hours

If you're just discovering Pressible, or have some questions you'd like to have answered by the team, we are hosting a Workshop series (Tuesday, September 7th, and Wednesday September 15th) at 4:00pm in the Second Floor Collaboration Space.   We are holding office hours right this very minute 2nd Floor Collaboration space, and will be …

Posts instead of Pages

The Question The Pressible Team has been asked why Pressible doesn't allow for more Page-creation options. For example, the following issues have been raised by a Pressible User (who is an author and also a site administrator): Information in Posts get buried beneath other Posts A Post doesn't feel like a "landing page" A Page could be …

Who’s reading “Learning at the Library?”

The Journey Begins

I am currently working on a Wordpress plugin codenamed Rec Tags Redux. It's top-secret official name will be unveiled at release. The purpose of this plugin is ultimately to modify the "Post Tags" box in the "New Post" page so that it recommends tags for your post based on a) the actual content of the …

Evaluation of WP LaTeX Plugin

We received the following request: Would it be possible to add the following WordPress plugin to pressible? As Pressible grows we anticipate requests for WordPress plugins to increase. This post will illustrate some of the steps we take to evaluate if a plugin makes sense and is worth supporting network wide. First we asked ourselves …

Pressible 1.0

We pushed new code over the weekend, and now it's official: Pressible 1.0 is here! There are a lot of things we're excited about, but most notably: Twitter integration. Pressible will tweet for you when you publish a new post. Header makeover. Each Pressible site now allows for uploading a header image. Currently a default …

Live Post: Gus Andrews’ Media Show Case Study

We are well into the launch event for Pressible, and I am currently watching Gus Andrews give a talk on the Media Show. Three prongs of the case study: Student oriented - production of MS as a means of teaching video production Teacher oriented - MS as a media literacy teaching tool Anyone oriented - …

Pressible Launch at the Gottesman Libraries

I'm very excited about our upcoming community launch event for Pressible. After four months of supporting the beta version, and six months of development, we are committing to a stable feature-set. We're going to call this version of Pressible our "1.0" (and adjust some of our past descriptions accordingly). We haven't finished building Pressible – …

“The Summer of Pressible” EdLab Seminar

We are a mere 13 days from the official launch of Pressible 1.0 on June 1st! To get the rest of the Lab geared up for what we've begun calling "The Summer of Pressible," we're presenting at the weekly EdLab Lunchtime Seminar outlining our ideas, our features, and our hopes for the summer. The Lab's …

Reaching Beyond “Outreach”

"Outreach" is an abused term: overused, exploited, and misunderstood. The idea that there is one type of outreach, or a single method for a single product, is obviously absurd. But from politician's "community outreach efforts" to those of big corporations "giving back through outreach," it becomes clear that genuine human interaction is the key to …

Under the hood – Javascript. ☆

WordPress is not the only great tool we use to develop Pressible. We also rely upon the jQuery Javascript framework as well as some other JS tools. Javascript allows us to control our design and user interaction more fluidly, and jQuery allows us to do it quickly. WordPress now ships with jQuery installed, not to …

Tags = Keywords

This is such a nice analogy, yet so easy to forget! Pressible likes tags. Lots of tags. In theory, you can't have enough tags in Pressible so long as they are descriptive, clear, and meaningful. They help site visitors find all the great content on your site. Think of it this way: if posts are …

Who Are We?

That was the question we were charged with answering at today's seminar at the EdLab. Each work-group was asked how they would want to be described to visitors to the Lab. With half of the Pressible team either ill or on vacation after the 1.3 release last week, Brian and I dared to represent the …

A New “Root” Site (Version 0.3) ☆

We're up and running with a cool new homepage. We’ve begun adding features we see as essential to the future of the network model of publishing: up-to-date information on sites and users, data visualization of network activity, and links to the best content on Pressible. This includes: Links to the newest sites. Though these sites …

The Data Question

While we've posted a lot of information about our development of Pressible, there hasn't been much talk of research. Luckily, the Pressible team sits within earshot of the R&D team for EdLab. Pressible does and will generate a slew of data; but our team has not spent much time thinking about fully-developed research questions that …