Edublogs - teacher and student blogs http://edublogs.org Get free education blogs at Edublogs Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:30:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 We’re improving Edublogs! http://edublogs.org/2009/10/28/were-improving-edublogs/ http://edublogs.org/2009/10/28/were-improving-edublogs/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:49:04 +0000 James http://edublogs.org/?p=400 We’ve got some big plans for Edublogs.org for 2010 to make your experience better and improve our service and functionality.

So we’ve put together this really, really quick survey to help us find out how we can best help you.

And, to sweeten the deal, we’re giving away several Amazon Kindles to survey participants!amazon_kindle_2

So please, take 60 seconds to complete the quick and easy survey, it’s designed to help us identify how we can best help you.

And as the usual response rate to surveys is about 5% there’s a great chance you could be a winner!

Here’s the link to the survey again (it’s also a great example of what you can achieve with Google Docs :)

Many thanks for opening this email and taking part in the survey – we can’t wait to implement your feedback to provide you with a much improved experience.

P.S. A whole heap of schools, districts and Universities are taking advantage of our 30 Day free trial of Edublogs Campus, get in touch with us any time to start yours!

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Turn that hobby into a job – come and work with us in help and support! http://edublogs.org/2009/09/18/turn-that-hobby-into-a-job-come-and-work-with-us-in-help-and-support/ http://edublogs.org/2009/09/18/turn-that-hobby-into-a-job-come-and-work-with-us-in-help-and-support/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:57:42 +0000 James http://edublogs.org/?p=391 We’re hoping the new school year is going well for all Edublogs users and we’re looking forward to providing you with some great blogging tools for the next year!

And we’d also like to say a huge thank you to all of you who have become Edublogs Supporters or looked at Edublogs Campus for your schools… you are the people that make Edublogs possible so give yourself a huge pat on the back!

But while you’re doing that, have a think about whether you’d like to take this whole Edublogs thing a bit further and come and work with us providing help and support for Edublogs.org and Edublogs Campus users!

That’s right, we’re looking for a help and support ninja.

Someone who can figure out how to make widgets dance, plugins gambol and posts and pages sing!

You’ll be working alongside the existing team, manning the forums, tweets and emails… and putting the EDU into blogging :)

There’s no specific experience required – except that you are an existing Edublogs or WordPress user – and naturally we have a preference for people with educational backgrounds.

What’s more, we’ll be looking at a flexible, hours-based, arrangement at first so that you can easily do this kinda thing alongside your current work… especially if you spend a lot of time in front of a computer already :)

We’re not saying that you moonlight per se…. oh, ok, we are… moonlight away!

So… if you’re interested, please contact us here (or by emailing support (at) edublogs [dot] org) and we can have a chat.

Let us know a little about yourself, point us to your Edublogs / WordPress experience and ask us any questions you might have.

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Use your own domain – for free! http://edublogs.org/2009/08/12/use-your-own-domain-for-free/ http://edublogs.org/2009/08/12/use-your-own-domain-for-free/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:39:11 +0000 James http://edublogs.org/?p=378 About a year ago, we started selling domain names and the ability to use your own domain names on Edublogs blogs.

Well, after we did that for a while, we changed over to the Supporter model and that became tricky… but no longer, because we’ve decided to bundle free domain mapping in with Supporter, so that every single supporter can now use their own domain… at no extra charge!

How does it work? It’s really easy… let’s take Sue as an example:

So, Sue’s old personal blog had the very catchy URL of “aquaculturepda.edublogs.org” which was a bit off, seeing as it started life as ‘Mobile Technology in TAFE’ and then became ‘Sue Waters Blog’ ;)

So, we did the very simple thing of going out and purchasing suewaters.com (for less than $10), and then configured the A record by following our handy Using Your Own Domain guide.

Then we visited Tools > Domain Mapping, and simply entered the new domain there:

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And that’s all there was to it… now you can catch Sue Waters at… suewaters.com!

As mentioned above, this is a new feature for Edublogs Supporters, at no extra cost, which we think is pretty darn cool.

Let us know any bugs / questions / comments / thoughts below :)

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