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iPhone Mobile Interface Added

Geoffrey O'Brien — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:51:52 +0000

I have added a new iPhone enabled interface to blog with. You will see a check box to use the new mobile interface on the login page when accessing it with an iPhone.

02/26/08 - New Themes Added

Geoffrey O'Brien — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:03:53 +0000

Here is a list of new themes that I added in this morning. You will see them under your Presentation tab. Have fun!

mistylook
ocadia
oceanmist
oceanwide-10
pressrow
reaching-darkness
redoable
seashore
solipsus
suhweet10
sumenep-10
terrafirma
thoughts-20
trevilian-way
twenty-eight
visteredlittle
benevolence
bluegreen
blue-moon-10
borderlinechaos
citrus islandwp
cleantidy
commentpress
connections
contempt
72class
ambiru
anubis-10
bluebird

01/30/08 - How Can We Improve Your Blogging Experience?

Geoffrey O'Brien — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:22:53 +0000

I would like to open up a discussion for people to comment on features or changes they’d like to see on the Blogging server. Please feel free to add a comment!

Quick Tip #3 - Setting Up Your Blog’s Visibility

Geoffrey O'Brien — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:12:57 +0000

There has been a recent concern about who can see the information entered on your blog. I have added some privacy settings on the blogging server so you can customize your Blog visibility. You can click on the thumbnail below to see where to find these settings.

01/03/08 - Blog Server Upgrade - And Then Some

Geoffrey O'Brien — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:00:05 +0000

Tonight I finalized the blog server’s planned software upgrades. These upgrades not only gave us a newer version of the blogging engine, but I have also updated the php version to 5.2.4 and added some anti-spam add-ons called “Captchas.” The use of Captchas will require you to take an additional step when logging into the server, and to post comments, This is the only real way to determine if you are a valid user, and not an automated spam-bot.

10/31/07 - Scheduled Maintenance Planned

Blog Administrator — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:10:33 +0000

I have decided to take the time during Christmas Break to do a major upgrade on the blog server. This is a sync of WordPress 2.3.1 which includes native tagging support as well as many bug and security fixes. I will also be including the ability to choose your primary blog in your profile for users that have more than one blog. Another network card wlll be enabled to improve throughput for users while using the blogging server from within the district. I will be posting the exact dates and time for the scheduled maintenance as we get closer to the Christmas Break.

~Geoffrey O’Brien

10/26/07 - French & Spanish Languages Added

Blog Administrator — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:08:08 +0000

I have added the ability to view your site in French and Spanish. This does not translate your site into these languages, but changes all the interface wording, into the language of your choice. I will be adding other languages as time goes on, but have fun with these for now. You can see how to change to French or Spanish by viewing the image below.

10/17/07 - New Features Added

Blog Administrator — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:48:15 +0000

I have added in the ability to invite other people in the district to try out bloggig on the server, as well as the ablity to add friends to your blog. I will be publishing a widget in the next few days to allow you to display your friends on the front page of your blog. Please see the screenshots below on where to access these cool new features.

~Geoff

INVITES:

FRIENDS:

Disclaimer

Geoffrey O'Brien — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:55:55 +0000

The owner of this blog has agreed to the Portland Public School Department’s Terms of Use, AUP, and Privacy Policy.

Privacy Policy

Geoffrey O'Brien — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:52:37 +0000

Public Nature of Content Submitted to Sites

The nature of blogging is to reach a public audience. Please be aware that any information that you submit to us whether through forms or email, including personally identifiable information, may be publicly displayed on sites hosted at http://blogs.portlandschools.org, or on websites not within our control. If you don’t want others to see such information, don’t submit it.

Forms and Content

To create a new blog, or register for an existing one, you may be required to submit an email address and other personal information. We may publicly display the personal information. Your address may also be used to send you email bulletins from individual Portland Schools blogs to which you subscribe, or to attribute comments or posts to you. If there are problems with your individual site, we may contact you via email as well.

If you contribute content, such as discussion comments, to any of our blogs, your contribution may be publicly displayed including personally identifiable information. Display of visitor content is determined by the discretion of the individual blog editors.

As the editor of a blog, you may establish a range of access restrictions to your material. The initial default setting for individual blogs allows outside search engines, indexes and third party sites to scan each blog, create hyperlinks to individual blogs or distribute it further via feeds. If you change these settings, there is no guarantee that outside search engines will omit your blog from its searches. Please check your default settings to discern the level of access the public has to your individual blog.

Each time you update your individual blog, it may also send pings or feeds to sites that index or track newly updated blogs. These sites may publicly display a hyperlink to your site and the time that you updated it. If your site publishes XML feeds, content from or links to your site may be publicly displayed on third party sites.

Depending on the settings on your site, email bulletins that contain content from your site may be sent out to subscribers.

IP Addresses and Referrers

We may publicly display the IP addresses of visitors and contributors to individual blogs hosted at http://blogs.portlandschools.org.

We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, to tailor site content and to format the site and software to user needs, and to generate aggregate statistical reports. We may use aggregate visitor data to prepare publicly displayed reports regarding the traffic on individual blogs, site popularity rankings, and referrers that visitors use to access individual blogs.

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Disclosure of Information to Portland Public School Department Administration and to Law Enforcement

Available log records, and all data stored on our servers may be accessed by our system administrators. The system administrators may produce these records and data to the Administrative staff, upon request or suspected violation of our terms of use. It is the Portland Public School Department’s policy to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the detection, investigation, and prosecution of unlawful activity. If we receive a warrant or subpoena for user information, we may disclose requested records to law enforcement authorities or outside parties seeking information through the legal process.

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Blogs hosted by the Portland Public School Department may link to independently run web sites outside of the http://blogs.portlandschools.org domain. The Portland Public School Department is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such web sites.