This week WordPress, which powers blogs on the CUNY Academic Commons, celebrated it’s 10th anniversary — Happy Birthday WordPress! The Commons development team also pushed out Commons 1.4.29, a maintenance release with a number of plugin and theme updates. While we’re on the subject of plugins, community facilitator @scottvoth recently wrote about a bunch of the new WordPress plugins available to Commons bloggers including: Google Fonts, Pinterest Pinboard Widget, and Twitter Mentions as Comments. I just enabled the last one on this blog and I’m super interested to see what it looks like (so I’ll have to tweet this on the @cunycommons). For more information about different plugins available for blogs on the Commons check out the Commons Codex, which has detailed instructions for 40 of the 219 plugins available on the Commons. If there is a plugin you are interested in learning more about that is not yet listed please let us know!

Our top retweeted tweet this week is to a post by @cirasella on the Mina Rees Library blog about how to use Google Scholar better. It’s a great read… and you should.

New post by @jillasella on the @cunyGClibrary blog: "Do You Use Google Scholar? Use It Better!" http://t.co/fEJkVC3RVY

— CUNY Academic Commons (@cunycommons) May 28, 2013

And now, the rewteets of the week…

RT @erikaherzog @AntDeRosa: WordPress turns 10 years old today. via @wordwhacker @StatistaCharts http://t.co/pDMx45Ql1N

— CUNY Academic Commons (@cunycommons) May 27, 2013

RT @GradCenterNews: Congratulations to Professor Elizabeth Sklar, who won a #Fulbright Scholar Award! http://t.co/QDST6PHO0T

— CUNY Academic Commons (@cunycommons) May 28, 2013

RT @careerplangc: Career Plan Updates: 5/27/13 http://t.co/Zrdd1X4ATG

— CUNY Academic Commons (@cunycommons) May 28, 2013

RT @jetmirtroshani: Free Webtools to Create Timelines @cunycommons http://t.co/8MTsVAeHyJ

— CUNY Academic Commons (@cunycommons) May 29, 2013

RT @erikaherzog: Cool event to be held @CUNYGradCenter 6/20-6/21 @THATCampPerfArt http://t.co/zIEYhdFVRV #THATCamp #DH #technology #theater

— CUNY Academic Commons (@cunycommons) May 30, 2013

RT @cunyirt: Workshop on DuckDuckGo, anon search engine that protects end-user privacy, 6/17, 6-9 @OpenITP RSVP: http://t.co/7cUqnaKNCG

— CUNY Academic Commons (@cunycommons) May 30, 2013

RT @jugoretz: Joe's #blsci epigram for today: "The universe is made of stories, not atoms." –Muriel Rukeyser

— CUNY Academic Commons (@cunycommons) May 31, 2013

RT @justpublics365: When posting videos online, three minutes should be your max or you will loose viewers #MCamp

— CUNY Academic Commons (@cunycommons) May 31, 2013

RT @gdonovan: @CUNYGradCenter commencement address has been posted! http://t.co/EaeWXJtyPu #digitalgc #enviropsych #public #graduation

— CUNY Academic Commons (@cunycommons) May 31, 2013

RT @tonypicciano: New NYC Teacher Evaluation: A Win, Win, Win! http://t.co/x0saGaLZkD via @ShareThis #picciano

— CUNY Academic Commons (@cunycommons) June 3, 2013

This edition of retweets of the week was brought to you by the referendum of No Confidence in Pathways. 😛

With the release of Commons 1.4.28 and Commons In A Box version 1.0.4, it was an exciting week both on the Commons and our sister project, Commons In A Box. With the latest CUNY Academic Commons release, some new goodies for bloggers include Chartboot, a plugin that lets you create, edit and embed Google Charts, and Leaflet Maps Marker, a plugin that allows you to pin, organize and share your favorite spots using maps from OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Google Earth, Bing Maps or custom maps. If you decide to enable them on your blog feel free to leave a comment with a link to your site so we can see what these plugins look like in action!

This past week one of our members created CUNY CRAFTS!, a public group for CUNY crafters to share ideas, discuss projects and seek advice from each other. With 7 members, there are already a bunch links to some great projects and resources. I also want to give a shout out to @rlsalois, who joined the Commons specifically because of this group — and found about about it through our @cunycommons Twitter account — w00t!

Before I post the retweets of the week I first wanted to share our top retweeted tweet this week, which happens to be for an awesomely awesome Data Visualization Assistant position on the PSC-CUNY Research Award-funded Undergraduate Study Habits Ethnography Project (hosted on a Commons blog). If you know anyone who is interested in working with some great CUNY folks over the summer please tell them to apply!

#HelpWanted #CUNY Data Visualization Research Assistant Needed http://t.co/VLsn4r69Nf

— CUNY Academic Commons (@cunycommons) May 25, 2013

And now, the rewteets of the week…

RT @cbox: We've just released Commons In A Box version 1.0.4 – a maintenance release http://t.co/ZA2Ab0ECks

— CUNY Academic Commons (@cunycommons) May 20, 2013

RT ‏@nyc_dh The NYC-Digital Humanities group is happy to announce our official launch. Come join us! http://t.co/HqIQA2kGH5 #nycdh

— CUNY Academic Commons (@cunycommons) May 20, 2013

(The NYCDH Community Site is powered by Commons In A Box and hosted at the Graduate Center by the GC Digital Scholarship Lab.)

RT @justpublics365: Tips for a WordPress Blog: Use around 5 catagories. Tags are where you can go all out! #MCamp

— CUNY Academic Commons (@cunycommons) May 22, 2013

+1! RT @gradcenternews: The Graduate Center would like to congratulate our doctoral and master's degree graduates! pic.twitter.com/UTV46fkJ2p

— CUNY Academic Commons (@cunycommons) May 23, 2013

RT @nypl: RT if you care about libraries! Tell the City to keep funding libraries. Sign a letter of support: http://t.co/MQDCAbTZqv…

— CUNY Academic Commons (@cunycommons) May 23, 2013

https://twitter.com/mauraweb/status/338487667052404738

That last retweet was a rewteet of a retweet of our top retweet. (Try to say that 5x fast.) ⊙.☉

The CUNY Academic Commons Twitter account (@cunycommons) was created to promote and share the work of the CUNY Academic Commons community with the rest of the Twitterverse. Instead of limiting our Twitter use to tweeting out new activity on the Commons, when we come across something from one of our Twitter followers that we believe to be relevant to the CUNY community, we retweet the heck out of it! With that being said, welcome to the first ever ‘Retweets of the Week’  — enjoy!

RT @citytechopenlab: This Week in the Open Lab: End of the Year Edition!: http://t.co/UQhRJ9jZQc

— CUNY Academic Commons (@cunycommons) May 13, 2013

RT @jitpedagogy: The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Issue 3 now available http://t.co/HMj0JQkwUy

— CUNY Academic Commons (@cunycommons) May 15, 2013

RT @jetmirtroshani: List of Magazine Creators @cunycommons http://t.co/0YajQ6OW9L #edtech

— CUNY Academic Commons (@cunycommons) May 15, 2013

MT @jitpedagogy: Special Video Feature: Behind the Seams w/ James Richardson – on the path from submission to… http://t.co/Q5BjpPHbBy

— CUNY Academic Commons (@cunycommons) May 15, 2013

RT @mkgold: RT @gdonovan: Read my #dissertation, hear my defense, browse my #research – http://t.co/URY9cg6BOI @CUNYGradCenter #digitalgc

— CUNY Academic Commons (@cunycommons) May 15, 2013

MT @gc_philosophy: Great things are happening in CUNY Philosophy! Our Newsletter: http://t.co/a4wVNRGEWX

— CUNY Academic Commons (@cunycommons) May 16, 2013

RT @erikaherzog: .@cunycommons 🙂
CUNY Academic Commons #swag #yay @ CUNY Graduate Center http://t.co/xiZ03j0Its

— CUNY Academic Commons (@cunycommons) May 18, 2013

We encourage you to follow all of the folks who were retweeted here:  @citytechopenlab, @jitpedagogy, @jetmirtroshani, @mkgold, @gdonovan, @gc_philosophy, & @erikaherzog_. Don’t forget to check back next week to see if your tweet made the list! You can also visit the CUNY on Twitter Wiki page to browse different CUNY Twitter accounts.