As of October 30, 2009, you have 100 MB of space allotted to your blog. This increased quota, the previous quota was 50 MB, will allow you to store more images, videos, and other files with your blog. Enjoy! Faculty can contact the OIT Help Desk for information about increasing their quota beyond 100 MB. More on…
Tag: Blogs
Taking the Mystery out of RSS
In a perfect world, updates from all your favorite news websites and blogs would appear instantly in one place, ready for you to access. You wouldn’t have to hunt. It would be like getting your meals delivered from the best restaurants in town, everyday. I’ve often wished for just such a service. And then I…
Tracking Visitors to your Blog with Google Analyitcs
If you’ve set up a UMass Blog to document your research or teaching, you might be interested to know who your visitors are. The days of the simple hit counter are gone, replaced with Google Analytics, a Google tool that tracks a wealth of data about where your visitors are coming from, which sections of your blog they are reading, and…
Blogs as Coursesites: Spring 2009
Tried building a web site from scratch but never quite finished? Never have the time to slog through programs like Dreamweaver to update your existing site? Maybe setting up a blog is the answer. Many instructors are finding blogs to be a friendlier alternative to building a traditional course website. The UMass Blogs service provides a space…
What Makes for a Good Blog (A list by Merlin Mann)
Though Merlin Mann is not an academic, he writes about technology, productivity, and finding time to be creative. All in ways that I think would be of interest to any of us who do things like writing and thinking for a living. He has assembled an interesting list of the important components of an engaging…
Why Bother Blogging?
Blogging certainly takes time, one of the most valuable commodities to those of us in Academia. More than one instructor I’ve chatted with this semester has told me they played with setting up a blog, but “who has the time to keep it going?” That’s a hard statement to argue with, but Henry Jenkins, professor…
Blogs as Coursesites: Fall 2008 Course Blogs
Tried building a web site from scratch but never quite finished? Never have the time to slog through programs like Dreamweaver to update your existing site? Maybe setting up a blog is the answer. Many instructors are finding blogs to be a friendlier alternative to building a traditional course website. The UMass Blogs service provides…