Blog: November 2009

Pass the Quilt: Creating a patchwork of the Filipino Exprience

November 19, 2009

Pass the Quilt.org is a new group blog that is the brainchild of Rex Jaime and Byron Mondala. Both gentlemen are of Filipino descent and were looking to create a web-based portal for the world wide Filipino community to come together and share their stories. The site launched just last week and it is a first phase site consisting of a blog with access to registered members to contribute stories and video and to communicate with each other. The idea is to create a virtual “patchwork quilt” made up of stories sharing the Filipino immigrant experience.

Design templates for the site were provided by Rex and Byron, with development work and the customization of ExpressionEngine provided by the Hop Studios team.

Future phases for Pass the Quilt will see it develop further as a social networking site. It’s an ambitious project, one that Rex and Byron hope will become the go-to place for the Filipino people and connect them with one another all over the world. We wish them all the best in building the online community they envision.

Posted by Rachael Ashe at 11:44 AM | Comments (4)

Daily News in Bite-Sized Chunks: Pat’s Papers

November 16, 2009

If you’re like me and you hate sifting through the daily news for the good stuff, well, do I have a site for you!

Pat’s Papers is a site run by New York-based news anchor Pat Kiernan, with the tag line of “Smartly selected US newspaper stories.” Pat and his staff sift through the day’s news headlines and bring you the top stories of the day all bundled up in the form of Pat’s Picks..

We recently completed work on Pat’s Papers that includes tweaks to the design to widen the news column width, and added icons for sharing content through top social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. The biggest change to the site is in the back end with the addition of the ExpressionEngine CMS to power the site and make adding new content a cinch.

You can subscribe to Pat’s Papers newletter, read the blog, or follow @PatKiernan on Twitter to get all the daily headlines.

Posted by Rachael Ashe at 4:33 PM | Comments (0)

School’s In! ‘Managing the Blogosphere’ at UBC Continuing Studies

November 4, 2009

I’m teaching a class for the next month in the Continuing Studies program at UBC.  The class is called “Managing the Blogosphere,” and it makes me feel like a grey beard, because I’ve only taught one session so far but it was laden with phrases like:

  • Back when I started blogging, we didn’t have ...
  • Nowadays, I guess it’s Twitter that people use instead of ...
  • And then they got bought by ...
  • This slide is from last year, though, and now there are already ten times ...

That aside, I’m really happy to be teaching again after about two and a half years away from it.  Preparing is a good way to remind myself what I know and what I don’t actually know, and the questions I get from the students often help me to see the industry through fresh eyes.

To my students, and others who might be curious about the course: Here are the class notes, though of course it doesn’t cover the hands-on training or the tangents we cover in class, and I may have skipped over or modified some of the slides on the fly.

Course Outline: Managing_the_Blogosphere_November_2009.doc

Week 1 Slide Deck: Introduction_to_Blogs2.ppt

Week 2 Slide Deck: Blog_Add_Ins_and_Social_Media.ppt

Week 3 Slide Deck: Audience_Content_Microblogging.ppt

Week 4 Slide Deck: Audience_Outreach_Law.ppt

I’ll update this with the course content as we go.

Posted by Travis Smith at 4:37 PM | Comments (1)

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