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Making Connections: Twitter, Facebook, Feedburner and WordPress

By NUAMPS on 7 Mar 2011 – 5:39 pm
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Twitter and Facebook have been around for quite some time now, but it seems like everyone has really embraced the culture and has started to use them at true channels of content distribution (and consumption).  All of the blogs that we produce are built using WordPress, which gives us tremendous flexibility for extending the functionality [...]

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Facebook Page

By NUAMPS on 25 Feb 2011 – 1:49 pm
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I hope that my recent spat of posts hasn’t turned you off to the NUAMPS Blog.  I have been doing some testing for WordPress, Twitter, Facebook integration.  NUAMPS has finally started a Facebook Page and we have removed our outdated NU AMPS ‘person’ account on Facebook.  We’ve finally drank the Kool-aid we’ve been selling!  Feel [...]

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Global Health Portal Phase 2 Launched Today

By NUAMPS on 14 Feb 2011 – 5:12 pm
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The Global Health Portal at Northwestern University is a site that we launched in May 2010, today we are happy to have launched the second phase of the portal.  Which include a new Media Archive and Article Archive.  The site is now using WordPress for the blog section of the site and the main site [...]

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Pines of Rome & Susannah on the Big Ten Network!

By Mark Skala on 1 Feb 2010 – 2:49 pm
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NUAMPS debuts yet another program on the Big Ten Network! Pines of Rome and Susannah is a program featuring excerpts of Ottorino Respighi’s “Pini di Roma” (Pines of Rome) and Carlisle Floyd’s “Ain’t it a Pretty Night?” from the opera Susannah. Pines of Rome features the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra and is conducted by Emanuele [...]

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Reg Gibbons, Literature’s Chicagoan of the Year

By NUAMPS on 21 Jan 2010 – 9:18 am
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Congratulations to Reg Gibbons for being named Literature’s Chicagoan of the Year by the Chicago Tribune. NUAMPS has had the privilege of working with Reg on a number of projects including the Center for the Writing Arts blog, Reg’s own web presence, and the upcoming TriQuarterly online literary journal. Reg is a professor of English [...]

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Tonight Live Chat with the New NU President

By Harlan Wallach on 7 Oct 2009 – 10:29 pm
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As part of the inauguration festivities, today, tomorrow and Friday, the New NU president Morton Schapiro is on live video chat with the NU student community. http://www.hersongroup.com/nw/live.cfm NUIT is supporting the infrastructure for the getting this presentation to the network, but it is designed and implemented by the Herson Group event planners.

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Waa Mu on the Big Ten Network!

By Mark Skala on 28 Sep 2009 – 2:41 pm
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Just a reminder that the NUAMPS production, “Making the Waa Mu Show 2009,” will be premiering soon on the Big Ten Network! Making the Waa Mu Show 2009 follows co-chairs Julie Beck, Kaitlin Fine, Cara Rifkin, Eugenio Vargas, and Director Dominic Missimi through the process of how one of the most celebrated and well respected [...]

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Watching history and communication networks

By Harlan Wallach on 16 Jun 2009 – 10:48 pm
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Washington Times: State Dept. to Twitter: Keep site up in Iran The State Department asked the social networking Web site Twitter last weekend to postpone scheduled maintenance that would have cut daytime service in Iran on Tuesday, just as protests against official election results were heating up, U.S. officials said. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, The revolution [...]

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An opensource testbed … Fishsticks

By Harlan Wallach on 9 May 2009 – 8:43 am
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to follow up on Chris Mackie’s recent comment on facebook… “Christopher J. Mackie is thinking that every unexpected software-vendor merger (Sun-Oracle, Angel-Blackboard, Yahoo-anybody) in these recessionary times strengthens the argument that community source software is more stable than the proprietary alternatives. What a turnaround from the conventional wisdom of just a couple years ago!” We’ve [...]

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IPD Blogs go Live

By NUAMPS on 6 Apr 2009 – 11:42 am
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The IPD Blogs site is now live.  Built using WordPressMU this site was designed to host multiple blogs with multiple users.  One of the exciting features of this site is the advanced integration of geo tagging and Google maps.  The site currently has two blogs but has the intention of expanding to 10+ blogs. This [...]

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