More numbers

As of this evening, we've passed 150 registered contributors and have 135 posts published. We had a small meeting of students who are interested in contributing outside of class this week, their work will start showing up in a week or so.

Including some very cool ideas for local podcasts ...

Numbers Roll In

As of this morning, we now have more than 50 registered contributors to The Grady Journal. Five classes are now participating at some level, some are posting already and some are ramping up their efforts. 

Video Tutorial - Writing & Linking

Our second video tutorial is now up, this one dealing with how to use the interface to write, create links, add tags and categories and write excerpts. (Run time: 4:34)

Video Tutorial - Logging In

The first video tutorial is now online for The Grady Journal - learn how to log in and adjust your user profile. (Run time: 2:21)

More Tweaking

I wasn't happy with the way the front and category pages have been displaying (with a headline and a "Read More" link. Went poking through the code again and have figured out something called an "excerpt," which is now configured to appear as a subhead. When creating posts, there's a field for a subhead - filling that out will now get it to appear on the main page and category pages. 

Not all of the posts have an excerpt in them yet, but we'll gradually build them in.

It's Alive!!

Earlier today, with the help of our friend Janet Sharik, The Grady Journal officially went live. Stories are starting to flow in, too.

It lives.

(Almost) Live

We're hours away ... maybe ... from being a real news site. Alpha and two rounds of beta testing have been completed (thanks to Rachel Bailey and the JOUR8350 class for pushing the site around and not breaking too many things).

Some last tweaks to clean out the database today, add in another group of contributors (from the JOUR3710 class) and start posting live (or evergreen) content.

Later today, the site will migrate to its primary address and won't be hidden anymore. A message will go out to faculty saying the site is ready for use and we'll sked a meeting for students to come join the fun.

OH! And Steve Smith has approached me looking to partner with NewsSource15. We aren't building just a site, we're building bridges.