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Need ideas: Recommend a good blogging tool?
PostPosted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:32 am
by Mithrandir
Hi everyone!
Some of my colleagues at work (a college) are trying to find a place where they can encourage their students to blog, but one that doesn't have 75% of the screen space devoted to advertising *cough* myspace *cough*
Any ideas?
If there are tools that allow a user to "hide" access and only show it to people they WANT to see, that would be a great added bonus.
Thanks!
PostPosted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:35 am
by Yahshua
PostPosted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:12 am
by mechana2015
I second LJ. It has an ability to friends lock pages to an indefinately controllable amount of people if you do it right.
PostPosted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:44 am
by Debitt
Thirding LJ. If you use the basic, as opposed to the Plus account, there are no ads on the journal page, and they have a pretty easy to understand Friends/Friends-lock system.
PostPosted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 12:32 pm
by ShiroiHikari
I like Livejournal for laidback, personal blogging, but for something more polished and professional, I'd highly recommend WordPress. Great interface, no ads.
http://www.wordpress.com
PostPosted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 1:34 pm
by Tancos
I maintain several weblogs, and I use
WordPress for all of them.
PostPosted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 7:00 pm
by Mithrandir
Sounds like LiveJournal and WordPress are the two major ones out there. Any other options?
Thanks!!!
PostPosted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 7:30 pm
by jaems-kun
I vote for wordpress!
Sorry I can't contribute anything else!
PostPosted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:53 pm
by Maledicte
There's blogger.
PostPosted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:06 pm
by Stephen
I'd say probably LJ would be the best bet.
PostPosted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:51 pm
by Kaligraphic
If you want to host your own, you can use Wordpress-MU to allow students to create their own blogs. Perhaps you could add some validation against a database of student accounts to limit blog creation only to students, if you care about that. I've read that Wordpress will let you password-protect posts, but I haven't tested that. You can probably find a WP plugin to work with access groups, if that's what you are looking for.
PostPosted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:00 am
by AsianBlossom
I second Blogger. It's free and I don't have any ads at all.
PostPosted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:38 am
by Mave
I like Blogger too. Been using it for almost 5 years now, never had any problems with it and I don't have any ads too.
PostPosted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:25 am
by Mr. SmartyPants
LJ and Wordpress are both good. I personally think that Wordpress has a more "professional" feel to it, but I like all the communal aspects of LJ.
PostPosted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:07 pm
by Mithrandir
OK. Thanks, everyone! I've made a quick report and will let you all know if I hear anything more.
You've all be very helpful!
Locked to allow it to sink away!