brookesblogs.net was set up by Phil Whitehead and Jim Hyndman about three years ago at Westminster Institute using the Edublogs WordPress platform.
Meanwhile, Brookes has been running several JISC funded support and synthesis projects.
One of these, Emerge, is using social networking to provide community-based support for a large national R&D programme (the JISC Users and Innovation Programme).
brookesblogs.net needed a new hosting environment and updating. As we were using a range of similar tools, and because Brookes provides some matching funds to the programme, it seemed right to host it on our support and synthesis platform.
brookesblogs.net uses the WordPress Multi User (WPMU) platform.
It will be supported at least until the end of March 2011.
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