Collaborative ITS Michigan

Wireless Mesh: Smart Grid & ITS apps

A Google TechTalk presentation.

Vehicle Wireless Communication

Intelligent Transport Systems explained

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Collaboration Introduction

Wordpress has 5 role levels and these are described below so that the various groups can understand contribution capabilities.  EVERYONE who completes the registration form are automatically registered as Subscribers.  An Administrator has to manually assign a role to a User.  At that point the User can proceed with whatever role is assigned to them.

These roles, Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor and Subscriber compartmentalize most of the groups of functionality in WordPress.

Naturally, Administrators can do everything. If you own a multi-author blog, chances are you want to be the admin and assign everyone else lower permissions. Administrators have appropriate permissions to change themes, activate/disactivate plugins, set global blog options, etc.

Editors, assume post-level management. As in a newsroom, editors don’t worry about the lights and the cameras. They are worried about the copy. To that end, editors have the right to manage post-related stuff. They can add their own, edit their own or delete their own – but more than that, they can edit or delete other peoples posts.

For authors, the assumption is that they are staff writers and are allowed to write whatever they want, whenever they want. Not only can they write stories, but they have the authority to publish them without review as well.

Contributors tends to work well on blogs where user generated content is welcome. People can submit their own stories but in the end, they cannot publish without an Editor. Editors or Administrators have the ability to go review the Contributor’s work and decide whether to publish or not.

Subscribers have no blog-level abilities. The benefit to subscribers is that, among other things, they can prepopulate the comment forms on the blog. Some blogs also require registration to comment. Subscribers are readers with a username and password – that’s it. No more. No less.

Interesting Articles

• What The Heck Is Social Media? (newmediachatter.com)

Jim Schultz

I have opened this blog a little to allow other users to register. The purpose will be to allow certain users to add content to the website. Anyone can now register but ability to add content is restricted until admin sets the user to a higher level of authorship. The intent will be for the BOD to have access to add.

Jim, scroll down the right side to the login hyperlink and click.  when the login pops up click register and register yourself.  I will then give you a high level of permissions so you can author anything you want but not delete anything that you did not author.  Later, if it is useful to you then we can give your the higher levels of permissions.

Amber Alert error

The Amber Alert code from their site broke the ITS Michigan site. We were forced to remove it. For the record the following code was removed:

<!– Begin Code Amber Ticker code. –>
<p align=”center”>
<script language=”JavaScript1.2″ src=”http://www.codeamber.org/js/hcodea.js”>
</script>
</P>
<!– end of Code Amber Ticker code (c)Copyright codeamber.org 2002 – 2008–>

Almost back to normal

We have resurrected most of the misplaced Home page. Also we added a lot of the new material related to the recent BOD elections. We need to change the contact data and then we will be caught up.

Something bad happened

Webmaster was cruising the site and came to the sudden reliazation that something did not look right.  A quick focus on the home page right column did not have the animated gif for the ITS World Conference running.  Further delving into the page showed many anomolies.  A creeping cold feeling went into the Webmaster gut.  The page had data that was from 2008.  Slowly but surely it dawned on Webmaster what had happened and it did not make him feel good.

Webmaster had used a computer to make site modifications that had not been updated for a year.  That is not good!  The internet connection where Webmaster was located was too unreliable to make large, changes and the computer did not have all versions of browsers necessary to check rendering.  So it was jump in the car and drive 150 miles to the main computer to see if there was anything salvagable.  There was not.  So it was off to the drawing boards again.  After 4 hours of work the home page was pretty close to the original before the dastardly deed was performed.  There are a few items that need to be corrected but Webmaster needs input from MDOT first.

Webmaster promises to back up every month now!

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