MennoNerds
The MennoNerds network was a collection of Anabaptist/Mennonite writers, many of who also happen to have a nerdy side. The MennoNerds website began as an aggregation point of all of our respective blogs and then grew in a hurry from there along with the network as a whole.
The site was powered by WordPress and a plugin which brings in the RSS feeds of member blogs. The site several variations (some screenshots are included in the gallery) and also came to include a variety of more complex features, including:
- a Twitter feed compiling activity from all of the MennoNerds
- biography boxes on posts to introduce the authors
- a map of all of our locations
- an author directory connected with Gravatar, linking to source websites
- audio and video podcasts from MennoNerds members
- audio and video podcasts produced by MennoNerds as a collective, published by RSS and to major podcast directories like iTunes and Google Play
- a book list of works created by MennoNerds members
- a catalogue of special synchroblog series