Well, not the entire university, I guess, but a number of online publications use it. The newspaper is featured above, their CIO has a blog, and they’ve started a pilot with WPMU to offer blogging to everybody in the University.

Posted November 19, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: blogging, higher ed, higher education, innovative uses of WordPress, McGill University, wordpress. 12 Comments.

Oobject’s galleries of abandoned pools, subway architecture, and revolting gold gadgets, among others, are all built in WordPress.

Posted November 17, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: innovative uses of WordPress, Oobject, wordpress. Be the first one.

WordPress.com VIP hosts some high-traffic sites, including Gizmodo’s live coverage of the iPhone 3g introduction. Now that the NFL has selected the service for their blogging we’ll get a chance to see how they handle the Superbowl rush.

Posted September 9, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: innovative uses of WordPress, NFL, performance, wordpress. 4 Comments.

Michael Stephens is now using WordPress MU to host his classes online, and that opening page is really sweet. It’s hardly the first time somebody’s used a blog to host course content, but I like where he’s going with it. We’re significantly expanding our use of WordPress at Plymouth, and using it to replace WebCT/Blackboard [...]

Posted September 9, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: academic technology, BlackBoard, courseware, education, higher ed, innovative uses of WordPress, michael stephens, WebCT, wordpress, WordPressMU. 4 Comments.

I hadn’t heard of Global Voices Online, a community generated global group news blog, until Jeremy Clarke spoke of it at WordCamp. And I didn’t think the site, with it’s do-good premise, worked until I actually explored it for a while. But, well, it’s a bit fascinating.
Global Voices grew out of a one-day conference in [...]

Posted August 16, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: Global Voices Online, innovative uses of WordPress, powered by WordPress, WordCamp, wordpress. One Comment.

In the “They Did This With WordPress” category (though from about a year ago, sorry) comes Truemors, a Digg, del.icio.us, Reddit clone from Guy Kawasaki.
Calling it a clone might be a backhanded non-compliment, but the truth is that it does a credible job in this increasingly crowded space*. And it’s built on WordPress.
The relevant [...]

Posted June 30, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: innovative uses of WordPress, powered by WordPress, Truemors. 4 Comments.

All Things Digital is interesting. Parents would say My Baby Our Baby.com is a little more important. But Tibet Open Letter is as real as the violence.
Two things to note: all of them are based on WordPress, and those who discuss Tibet probably risk being listed by the Chinese government as a trouble maker.

Posted March 27, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches. Tags: innovative uses of WordPress, powered by WordPress, Tibet, tibet open letter, wordpress. Be the first one.

Andy Peatling, who developed a WordPress MU-based social network and then released the code as BuddyPress has just joined Automattic, where they seem to have big plans for it. I’d been predicting something like this since Automattic acquired Gravatar:
It’s clear that the future is social. Connections are key. WordPress MU is a platform which has [...]

Posted March 5, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: acquisition, automattic, BuddyPress, innovative uses of WordPress, open source, powered by WordPress, social networks, wordpress. 2 Comments.