[Sociam-soton] Re: FW: Re: blogging for SOCIAM (newbie question)

[Laura Dragan]

Hi Lance,

Thank you for the info!

On 02/04/14 11:50, Lance Draper wrote:
> Sociam.org was registered by the ODI and appears to be a Virtual Machine hosted in the cloud by linode.
> Without a login account for the VM I am unable to see how the site is setup or if backups are being taken.
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> I  can follow this up but I need to know the best person to contact...

I'm the one to contact about this.

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> blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/sociam is hosted on the iSolutions WordPress server and will be backed up.

This is interesting .. I had no idea we had this blog :/
It seems it hasn't been updated in a while, and I only know about the
one on http://sociam.org/blog

Laura

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>   bogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/sociam is running on the iSolutions Wordpress server.
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> Hope that answers Max's question.
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> Lance
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: sociam-soton-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:sociam-soton-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dr. Daniel Alexander Smith
> Sent: 02 April 2014 10:28
> To: Nichola Need
> Cc: Sociam-soton at ecs.soton.ac.uk
> Subject: [Sociam-soton] Re: FW: Re: blogging for SOCIAM (newbie question)
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> Laura, if this is a VM then you can ask Lance to set it up on the backup system.
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> Although, unless someone is willing to check for updates very regularly, it will get pwned like then other server did - so using the iSolutions Wordpress server would fix that aspect too - please liaise with Lance for recommendation on that - we should be able to do an import/export of existing blogs and theme easily.
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> Dan
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>> On 2 Apr 2014, at 09:53, Nichola Need <N.Need at soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> Please see message below form Max:
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>> Kind regards
>> Nichola
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: electronic at gmail.com [mailto:electronic at gmail.com] On Behalf Of 
>> electronic Max
>> Sent: 01 April 2014 19:21
>> To: Laura Dragan
>> Cc: Sociam-soton at ecs.soton.ac.uk
>> Subject: Re: [Sociam-soton] Re: blogging for SOCIAM (newbie question)
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>> yes please! thank you laura!
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>> to quote the immortal words of the daleks, "DECENTRALISE!!!"
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>> (or was that EXTERMINATE?)
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>> Is this blog not centrally hosted? E.g. are the posts actually backed up?
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>> best,
>> max
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>>> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Laura Dragan <lcd at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> Hi Max, and everyone
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>>> So far I have uploaded the few blog posts myself, from documents sent 
>>> by people. I do agree though that having individual accounts for the 
>>> website would make a lot more sense - both from the perspective of 
>>> minimizing my work and that of giving proper attribution to the 
>>> authors
>>> - so far the blog posts appear posted by admin which is not nice.
>>>
>>> Max, I will create an account for you (is emax ok?) so you can post 
>>> it when it's ready.
>>>
>>> Laura
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>>>> On 04/01/2014 06:57 PM, electronic Max wrote:
>>>> Apologies for the mass-post; trying to write a blog post about 
>>>> today's very successful workshop at FutureEverything and can't seem 
>>>> to get started.
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>>>> I simply don't know who's in charge of the blog at the moment. Can 
>>>> someone point me to instructions on how to log in our blog engine?
>>>> Going to sociam.org/blog -> Log In yields no peanuts using any of my 
>>>> usernames - mvk1r09, mvk, emax, mvk at ecs, etc etc etc. Am I supposed 
>>>> to log in & post to blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/sociam using my iSolutions 
>>>> username/password ?
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>>>> In the future, who has the creds to log in & administer the web site vs blog?
>>>>
>>>> For those of you who haven't blogged yet, i recommend setting 
>>>> yourself up an account since it will now be mandatory for RFs to 
>>>> blog about the trips we take on behalf of SOCIAM :)
>>>>
>>>> thanks -- now for London - ODI!
>>>>
>>>> best,
>>>> max
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