Christian Wach, a member of the Commons Development Team, will present at CiviCon on October 8th. If you happen to be in London, check him out at the CIVICON Conference, which runs the whole weekend. Christian will discuss a suite of CiviCRM plugins he has developed, in conjunction with the CUNY Academic Commons, and show […]
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CUNY Academic Commons 2015 Annual Report
The CUNY Academic Commons 2015 Annual Report is now available for download! We hope you’ll read it in detail. Widely used “as shared space for individuals, campus committees, and academic departments,” the Commons continues to evolve, and we are proud of the growing collection of open source tools that we have developed to help foster […]
Events Calendar for Groups
Our newest feature is the Events Calendar. As we told you in our previous post, you can create Events as an individual or as a group. This week we will take a closer look at creating events in a group context. Calendar Navigation Find the Events link on the navigation bar on the left […]
Introducing Commons 1.8!
The Commons Development team has just released Commons 1.8! With a special focus on helping groups communicate, Commons 1.8 delivers some great improvements, including its marquee feature, the Events Calendar. We hope you enjoy all the new functionality, described in more detail below. Events Calendar One of the most requested features by members has been a site-wide […]
Ways to Use the Commons
Members can use the CUNY Academic Commons to establish their online presence. We provide an assortment of widgets to help design attractive CVs to list academic interests, publications, positions, and educational background. With our free web hosting, members can create as many WordPress Web sites as they want. We support domain mapping and non-standard customizations for […]
We’re Hiring! Project Manager (Part-Time)
The CUNY Academic Commons is hiring! Please see our ad below for this part-time position. — Project Manager (Part-Time) The CUNY Academic Commons, an academic social network connecting the 24 campuses of the City University of New York, seeks a Project Manager to join our team. This part-time, 5-7 hour per week position will focus on managing and […]
We’re Hiring! Site Analytics and Metrics Specialist (Part-Time)
NOTE: THIS POSITION HAS BEEN FILLED The CUNY Academic Commons is hiring! Please see our ads below for this part time position. If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected] — Site Analytics and Metrics Specialist (Part-Time) The CUNY Academic Commons, an academic social network connecting the 24 campuses of the City University […]
Welcome to Commons 1.6!
The Commons Development team has just released Commons 1.6! This release features a number of great improvements to the site, including something everyone will love – HTML email notifications. We have also souped up the Commons member profile pages with widget improvements (including a new Twitter Widget), and fixed a design issue that makes it […]
CUNY Academic Commons Seeks Part-time Employees
Established in 2009 and now nationally renowned as an example of a successful academic social network, the CUNY Academic Commons is designed to provide a flexible online space for discovery, connection, collaboration, and sharing between faculty members, graduate students, administrators, and staff of the City University of New York. As a group of committed open-source […]
Dev team member Raymond Hoh promoted to BuddyPress core team
Today it was announced that Raymond Hoh, a member of the CUNY Academic Commons and Commons In A Box dev teams, was promoted to the BuddyPress core team. This means that he joins a small group of people primarily responsible for maintaning and building BuddyPress, the social networking plugin for WordPress that powers the Commons […]
