Our blog portal has recently received a facelift and a new name: Mount Blog. The Alumnae Association's graphic designer, J. Johnson, came up with the new name after everyone else was stumped for a decent title. He also took the photo of the Holyoke mountain range and created the banner that adorns the entry way to the blog pages. Our five blogging students have written at least one article each and will most likely be publishing more pages after the Fall break. (hint, hint)
For those that are interested, we are using an open source blogging software platform written in PHP with a MySQL database backend. The application is called LifeType. It may not be as well known as WordPress or TypePad, but it is an excellent program with a wide variety of features. It was written from the ground up to publish multiple blogs. As an administrator, it is easy to manage. The development team is very active and working constantly to improve the program.