Comments on: Teaching IT with Open Source platforms: Quick start, real users http://www.jpedia.org/wp/archives/50 JP's work on the new internet, business, and society. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:13:49 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Using WordPress as a small business website | The J.P. Allen Blog http://www.jpedia.org/wp/archives/50/comment-page-1#comment-23 Using WordPress as a small business website | The J.P. Allen Blog Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:43:27 +0000 http://jpedia.org/wp/archives/50#comment-23 [...] Is there an opportunity for WordPress to dramatically expand its reach as a kind of generic small business solution?  Useful sites can be put together now, with some tweaking and geeking.  But, following the analogy from Stephen O’Grady’s talk at WordCamp on Saturday, maybe somebody needs to build a company on top of open source WordPress in the same way that Google is an ‘open source’ company that builds its must-have services on top of other software.  A small business website service built with WordPress, but where 99% of the users don’t even know what WordPress is?  Edublogs for small business, but maybe not even called blogs?  Is this a good idea?  Is somebody doing this?  In the meantime, we think there are lots of good reasons to teach students about open source business platforms and basic content manage.... [...] [...] Is there an opportunity for WordPress to dramatically expand its reach as a kind of generic small business solution?  Useful sites can be put together now, with some tweaking and geeking.  But, following the analogy from Stephen O’Grady’s talk at WordCamp on Saturday, maybe somebody needs to build a company on top of open source WordPress in the same way that Google is an ‘open source’ company that builds its must-have services on top of other software.  A small business website service built with WordPress, but where 99% of the users don’t even know what WordPress is?  Edublogs for small business, but maybe not even called blogs?  Is this a good idea?  Is somebody doing this?  In the meantime, we think there are lots of good reasons to teach students about open source business platforms and basic content manage…. [...]

]]> By: Rick Mathieu http://www.jpedia.org/wp/archives/50/comment-page-1#comment-22 Rick Mathieu Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:25:59 +0000 http://jpedia.org/wp/archives/50#comment-22 J.P., I have been teaching a CIS course entitled "OS's and Server Administration" for 2 years. Students learn to work in the Linux environment, install, secure and administer the LAMP stack, and install OS applications including Joomla! Here is a link to our course wiki: http://ictom.wetpaint.com Keep up the good work. - Rick Mathieu J.P.,

I have been teaching a CIS course entitled “OS’s and Server Administration” for 2 years. Students learn to work in the Linux environment, install, secure and administer the LAMP stack, and install OS applications including Joomla! Here is a link to our course wiki: http://ictom.wetpaint.com

Keep up the good work.

- Rick Mathieu

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