{"id":10,"date":"2017-07-10T10:19:05","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T14:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/eclectic-chair\/?p=10"},"modified":"2017-10-20T12:52:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T16:52:49","slug":"introduction-to-the-chairs-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/eclectic-chair\/2017\/07\/introduction-to-the-chairs-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to the chair&#8217;s blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome colleagues, to the new and improved Psych News. I&#8217;m hoping to use this forum not only to communicate department news, but also to coordinate more generally some of the affairs of the department. My thinking is that:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is more efficient to post things &#8220;real time&#8221; as I learn about them rather than trying to collect and organize longer-term. There is also often an immediate nature of some communiqu\u00e9s.<\/li>\n<li>It allows me to assign <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/eclectic-chair\/faqs\/categories-tags\/\">categories (and tags)<\/a> to information and items so you can focus on the things you find most relevant, as well as to find information faster when searching.<\/li>\n<li>It makes direct email less frequent and more diagnostic: A separate email is probably important, and\/or eyes only.<\/li>\n<li>I can also more easily\u00a0consolidate links to resources, forms, and minutes (although such access will open in Drive, Canvas, etc. and probably require authentication).<\/li>\n<li>It provides a common archive without flooding each of your inboxes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is just a start, but I will work to refine the categories and other settings as I get into it. There are simple tools to help you <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/eclectic-chair\/faqs\/following-the-blog\/\">get notified the way you want<\/a>, set preferred categories, and such. For example, you could easily just be notified once a week about everything, as before.<\/p>\n<p>I also want to point out that this is *not* intended to be a social\/personal blog forum, but rather it represents the chair&#8217;s office. I will try to tag anything that might happen to come across with that nature as &#8220;Interest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the blog is set for public access and does not contain any sensitive information. I would prefer not to restrict access to only subscribers, but we can discuss this at some point as well.<\/p>\n<p>Feedback and suggestions are of course always welcome (as comments or otherwise).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome colleagues, to the new and improved Psych News. I&#8217;m hoping to use this forum not only to communicate department news, but also to coordinate more generally some of the affairs of the department. My thinking is that:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/eclectic-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/eclectic-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/eclectic-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/eclectic-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/eclectic-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/eclectic-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/eclectic-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/eclectic-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/eclectic-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}