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Three sections of the site run in WordPress, a blog application:

General news on the home page
- Warnell community members receiving grants or awards
- anyone publishing material
- outreach and service programs
- interesting research being conducted
- items of interest to the general public
School news and announcements for faculty, staff and students on the intranet home page
- deadlines for budgeting, graduate school, study abroad, etc
- changes in policies or procedures
- opportunities for study, research or employment
- upcoming club meetings or seminars
- messages from UGA Administration
- items that need to be sent to the whole school
Discussion board for Warnell members to communicate about items of interest
- environmental issues - drought, global warming
- new research trends
- requests for housing or transportation
- items meant to begin a discussion or not of interest to the school as a whole
- Please shy away from politics and religion

Getting Started

Logins

The news sections have a few authorized people who are allowed to post news items. Anyone with an email account at Warnell can post to the discussion board.

General news on the home page: http://www.warnell.uga.edu/news/wp-login.php
- Username and password provided by the webmaster to appointed writers
News for Warnell faculty, staff and students: NEED URL
- Username and password provided by the webmaster to appointed writers
Warnell discussion board: http://www.warnell.uga.edu/intranet/blog/wp-login.php
- Use your Warnell email account for your username, and "warnell" as the password

News Sections

Please write the authorized people below with any items of interest to the school or general public

General news -
School news -

Anyone can read the general news; the intranet is behind a password, so anyone with the password can read the school news. The news sections do not allow comments to be posted.

Discussion Board

Discussions can be on any topic of interest, but must conform to UGA Computer Use policies

basically, keep it clean and respectful
comments are allowed and encouraged
replaces the old practice of sending emails (and multiple replies) to the entire college

RSS Feeds

No need to go to the web site to find important information again!
Clicking on this icon allows you to subscribe:

receive newly posted articles in your favorite browser, email client, or feed reader
Wikipedia has a good list of RSS feed applications
basic information on how to set up an RSS feedreader
general RSS basics