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By Joe Wikert, part of the TOC podcast series, on O'Reilly Radar, April 2 2012. Wikert interviews Hugh McGuire, founder of PressBooks, a newly developed publishing platform. PressBooks, which will be available both to commercial publishers and to the general public, uses WordPress as a CMS/platform on which to put a book together. The output can be a printed book, an e-book, or a podcast. This page provides an intro to the podcast, including the major themes of the approach (and the time-stamps for each).

An interesting idea, particularly for self-publishing.

Produced by VideoUserManuals, 2010. This is a manual for developers who create websites using WordPress (as a CMS). There are some helpful tips; they even share their own standard process for new site development.

The Content Management Comparison Tool "To put it simply Wordpress is much smaller and some would argue less powerful than Joomla or Drupal. Joomla or Drupal tend to be used for large business and community sites with lots of different types of content where there is more specific needs. Wordpress tends to be used by SME's, bloggers and charity's because it's very easy to use but you can hit that usability ceiling despite it's excellent plugin library."

"The Global Development Network (GDN) is a leading International Organization of developing and transition country researchers, policy and research institutes promoting the generation, sharing, and application to policy of multidisciplinary knowledge for the purpose of development. "

Interesting academic opportunity in London, an MSc in Learning Technologies offered by the London Knowledge Lab. The program directors are Diana Laurillard and Alex Poulovassilis. The program focuses both on computer science and on learning theory. Link to application details on this page.

Profile of Diana Laurillard from London Knowledge Lab; this page includes her c.v. and a publications list.

"The London Knowledge Lab is a unique collaboration between...the Institute of Education and Birkbeck" (both UK). Computer scientists and social scientists work together to study issues in education, sociology, media, the semantic web, etc.