Tue 30 Oct 2007
After a few years of gestation, it is time to get serious about EphCOIs, my idea for an Eph Community of Interest, a place where Williams folks interested in a specific topic can gather (virtually) for news and conversation. We will start with EphCOI:Finance, if only because this is the community that I best understand and can most easily rally. Aaron Schwartz ‘09, one of my summer associates, will be joining EphBlog as an author. He, along with other authors, will be posting things that are finance-related even if there is not a specific Eph connection. Almost all of the content of these entries will be below the break so that readers without an interest in finance will not need to read them. They will be categorized as EphCOI:Finance posts.
In an ideal world, we would organize EphBlog so that there were different “views” for different readers. That is, someone who wanted to see only the Finance posts or none of the Finance posts would be able to do so. Alas, that technology isn’t available. But our move to Wordpress is coming up so perhaps in time.
Join us for this experiment. Comments welcome.
October 30th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Could you somehow mark the ones that aren’t Eph related, so we won’t have read through any part of them to try to find an Eph connection? I read this blog solely for the Eph connections.
October 30th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Picky, picky.
November 11th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
I may be a little bit late in the game here, but I’d strongly recommend Drupal over WordPress as it *can* do the former and so much more– before user-custom views, I’d suggest simply having different sections such as Tech and Sports and Politics, surrounding a main page with more general “front page” content. In fact I might even *volunteer* to do it, or…
If nominated, I would volunteer to create and host ‘88 and ‘93 websites prior to reunion, based on Drupal, on the presumption that it would work toward an alumni-driven, online alumni COI purpose.