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Hey Jason, Are you watching for different categories--closings, emergencies, weather - etc.--and, also, how are you determining when to take down the notice (if at all)? Sent from my iPhone On Nov 7, 2012, at 10:26 AM, Jason Griffey <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > We run a Wordpress multisite setup here at MPOW, and have two > different blogs that we use for this type of purpose: an "Alerts" blog > for in-house alert needs, and a "News" blog for public-facing > announcements. We just use the RSS feed to push the alerts where > needed, and there's certainly no shortage of RSS collection/parsing > libraries. I'm partial to Magpie (http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/) > but only because I've had years of using it. > > We even recently moved to using Growl for Windows with an RSS plugin > to do "heads up" alerts on staff/faculty PCs, so that when something > is posted to the Alerts blog, all staff machines get an > impossible-to-ignore alert overlay on their screens. We will likely be > doing a similar thing for "Emergency" use and the public machines. > > Jason > > > > On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Michael Schofield <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> Hey everyone, >> >> >> >> I've been toying with the idea making something because I can't seem to find >> a free alternative, but I thought I'd do my due diligence and pick your >> brains. I'm open for any alternatives to the following, but I'm specifically >> looking for a free option with an API. >> >> >> >> Scenario: our main website lives on the university's server, which turns out >> to be a very dull playground: HTML/CSS/JS only. This means there's about 150 >> static files that I'm now presently rolling into a WP Network living on our >> own boxes-and our own domain-(we've been waiting for the last year for a >> university-wide CMS, but we just don't want to hold our breaths any longer >> J) but the main site, the landing page, will always be static. This means >> that whenever there's an early closure, a hurricane watch, or some other >> announcement someone has to submit a ticket and then I have to make a >> change. My goal is to cut me-the middleman-out of the process. >> >> >> >> My potential project: So what I was thinking was jury-rigging a Wordpress >> theme into an "alerts" dashboard for managers, directors, and so on. I want >> to empower the Circulation manager to login, make an announcement, and be >> done with it. For all the departmental and other sites that live on the WP >> Network, I'd write and install a corresponding "alerts" plugin that watches >> the JSON API for an alert and-if true-display it. For our static sites, I'd >> toss in a jquery plugin that did the same. >> >> >> >> My question: this seems like something that's been done before! Has it? If >> not, anyone want to collaborate on github? >> >> >> >> All the best, >> >> >> >> Michael Schofield(@nova.edu) | Web Services Librarian | (954) 262-4536 >> >> Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center >> >> >> >> Hi! Hit me up any time, but I'd really appreciate it if you report broken >> links, bugs, your meeting minutes, or request an awesome web app over on the >> Library Web Services <http://staff.library.nova.edu/pm> site. >> >>