(WordPress as a Gateway Drug: Enabling Innovation)
11/12/09
1. I DON’T NEED MY OWN SPACE
- caravanista.net (acts as an aggregator of my work (incl. Loaded Learning, Mud Pit, & SfSS) and a place for my growing digital identity)
- serenae.com (originally created as a place to bring together my academic work and artwork; has already resulted in job interviews, requests for web design, photography gigs, etc)
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2. I DON’T NEED TO INTERACT WITH FRIENDS
- stalking UMW Blogs
- helping out friends/family with their WP sites
- carlyinchina.wordpress.com
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3. I DON’T NEED A COMMUNITY
- UMW Secrets (a semi-successful attempt at recreating a PostSecret.com-like site for a more specific community. It has forced me to think about ways to reach out to a community to gather content for the site since its content is nothing I produce but frame.)
- Weekly Delicious (not WP, but resulted from use of WordPress in school… now used to share recipes and keep in touch)
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4. I DON’T NEED IT FOR MY JOB
- Stuff for Starving Students (a resource site for web tools students, it has garnered attention from various websites.)
- Letelier Theater & Alliance Française blog (my bosses wanted to redo their websites and begin a blog in which staff can participate)
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5. I DON’T NEED IT FOR THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE, EITHER

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