Free Blogs for PR Practitioners, Educators and Students
All of the PRblogs.org sites are now back up and running smoothly on their new server.
If you experience any problems, please let me know. Comment here or email me.
Thanks to James Farmer.
Thank you all for your patience.
Have a fun and safe weekend!
James Farmer, our very kind benefactor, is moving our PRblogs.org community to a brand new shiny (and faster) server. It seems we have been successful. The bandwidth use was becoming an issue and the new server will be speedy.
As a new and free service, it is inevitable that we will experience something like this along the way. I see it as a good thing.
I truly appreciate Jame’s generous help in our edu-blogging efforts. He is, after all, the King of Edublogging. Literally. See his Edublogs, Learnerblogs, ESL/EFL educators and Uniblogs communities for yourself.
I wish to note that James has never asked me for a penny. He has been so very generous. So, I am going to ask that you visit this post about sponsorship at his Blogsavvy.net site. No one asked me to do this, but I feel it is very worthy. James is providing free blogs to *thousands* of children and adults in education. That is a very admirable and respectful practice. How about supporting his efforts. I would love to see a PR firm become a benefactor of our project by helping James. It is more than just PR. It is education - K-12 and higher education. So, please step up and make a difference. Thank you.
I have contributed to James’ efforts before. He never asked me to either. I, along with my students, will be very grateful if you will help, too.
The blogs at PRblogs.org may be unavailable for a little while - while the servers reconnect to the domain. Don’t fret. They will come back soon.
In other news, one tweak I would like to see within WordPress Multiuser in the future is an email capture plugin that allows WPMU blog providers with an easy way to email all blog owners. That would be a nice way to let them know about the temporary outage.
Alas, I was not able grab all the emails (unless I opened each and every account - hundreds and hundreds of them) and do such an announcement email. Please forgive me. I am sorry.
And, while we are talking desired plugins / features, I believe every WPMU blog owner would appreciate a function to deny sign ups by the same email address (over and over). I wind up deleting between 10 to 100 bogus and malicious signups each week. That is sad. Some people have no decency.
Did I mention that I do this project voluntarily? :) So does James. It is all non-profit and nobody is getting paid a thing. Ah, I long for the days when volunteer efforts were appreciated by ‘all’ people. Is it the internet that has changed all that? Don’t know.
Still, having a great place for the students - and others - to have a free blog is worth it.
