The Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly is the printed magazine published four times a year by the Alumnae Association. It has been offered online in PDF format for the past three years. I had the idea that it would be more interesting to offer the content of the magazine in a more ineractive format, such as a blog where readers could easily share their comments on each article and additional content that either was not included in the print version or could not be included, such as, video and audio. Emily, the editor, refers to it as a blogazine (blog+magazine). It is now in it's final format.
The blogazine is being kicked off formerly with the Winter 2008 issue. The print version is being mailed on January 25th, while the blog has been quietly online for the past couple months as we have uploaded the past three issues.
Some interesting features have been added:
- Audio versions of each article created via Talkr. Just click the link at the top of each article to have it read to you.
- LibraryThing book links to Amazon in the left hand column. Just click a cover to be taken directly to Amazon where you can purchase the book.
- Sociable bookmark links, share an article in del.ico.us, NewsVine, etc.
- Comments are secured with the Re-Captcha anti-spam tool.
- All images are viewable in the photo albums within a cool slideshow photo overlay.
- The full text of all articles are indexed and searchable.
- Where applicable additional photos or videos are been added.
- The blog can be subscribed to with a number of RSS news feeds.
- 100% CSS cross browser compatible layout.