Analytics: Top Pages for the Week of September 20
We have some new entries to the regular list of top pages on the Commons this week. Check the list out below, including the average time spent on each page. Top 20 Pages /commons.gc.cuny.edu/ – 4,670 sessions – 0:51 /commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-login.php – 620 sessions – 0:28 /commons.gc.cuny.edu/my-commons – 577 sessions – 0:56 […]
Top Pages for the Week of September 13th
Top 20 Pages We’ve added a bit more information to our list this week! Following the number of sessions on the top pages, I’ve added the average time spent on the page. /commons.gc.cuny.edu/ – 4,595 sessions – 0:48 /murphyinstituteblog.org/2015/09/11/livestream-unions-workers-and-the-democratic-party-918/ – 907 sessions – 5:31 /commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-login.php – 771 sessions – 0:25 /commons.gc.cuny.edu/my-commons – 578 sessions – […]
Analytics: Top Pages on the Commons for the week of September 6
We’re back in the swing of things in our top pages after last week’s new registrations and forgotten passwords after summer break. Below you’ll find the top twenty pages from the previous week. /commons.gc.cuny.edu/ – 4,782 sessions /commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-login.php – 971 sessions /commons.gc.cuny.edu/my-commons/ – 719 sessions /commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/ – 511 sessions /commons.gc.cuny.edu/wiki/index.php/The_CUNY_Digital_Humanities_Resource_Guide – 497 sessions /careerplan.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ – […]
Analytics: Top Pages on the Commons for the week of August 30th
Welcome to the fall semester! We have been tracking analytics on the Academic Commons for some time, and we thought it was time to begin sharing interesting data with our users. This week, we’ll take a look at the top 20 pages on the Academic Commons as Fall 2015 begins. You’ll notice a distinct “back […]

CUNY Academic Commons Annual Report 2015 – 2016
The CUNY Academic Commons 2015 Annual Report is now available for download! We hope you’ll read it in detail. The CUNY Academic Commons team continues to strive for an innovative approach to community development, with an increasing focus on building major features requested by our users. During the 2014-15 academic year, the Commons prepared two […]

Events Calendar: What Can You Do With It?
The marquee feature of the new release of CUNY Academic Commons is the Events Calendar. There are lots of different ways that your group might choose to use this new tool. To get you thinking, we offer here some illustrative examples of how to leverage the Events Calendar. Lectures and Meetings Many groups, such as […]

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 […]

Commons Team Develops New Digital Research Tools Plugin
The CUNY Academic Commons collaborated on an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to make Berkeley’s Drupal-based Digital Research Tool repository (DiRT) accessible to other WordPress sites via custom-built APIs. The Commons was the pilot site for this project, and members can now tap into DiRT without leaving the Commons. Follow this link for more information […]

Welcome to Commons 1.7
Commons 1.7 is out! This is a major feature release of the Commons and includes a number of new improvements and some important, behind the scenes upgrades, as well as the release’s marquee feature, “My Commons.” My Commons – Your New Personal Homepage When you are on the Commons “Home” tab and log on, you […]

WordCamp NYC Keynote by Commons Lead Developer Boone Gorges
To kick off WordCamp NYC this year, CUNY Academic Commons lead developer Boone Gorges gave the keynote “Free Software, Free Labor, and the Freelancer: The Economics of Contributing.” We will post a video of his presentation when it is available. In the meantime, here is a taste of what he had to say: Free software […]