Need ideas: Recommend a good blogging tool?

Postby **Mithrandir** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:32 am

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!

Postby **Yahshua** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:35 am

Try http://www.livejournal.com/ Live Journal.

Postby **mechana2015** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:12 am

I second LJ. It has an ability to friends lock pages to an indefinately controllable amount of people if you do it right.

Postby **Debitt** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:44 am

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.

Postby **ShiroiHikari** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 12:32 pm

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

Postby **Tancos** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 1:34 pm

I maintain several weblogs, and I use WordPress for all of them.

Postby **Mithrandir** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 7:00 pm

Sounds like LiveJournal and WordPress are the two major ones out there. Any other options?

Thanks!!!

Postby **jaems-kun** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 7:30 pm

I vote for wordpress!

Sorry I can't contribute anything else!

Postby **Maledicte** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:53 pm

There's blogger.

Postby **Stephen** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:06 pm

I'd say probably LJ would be the best bet.

Postby **Kaligraphic** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:51 pm

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.

Postby **AsianBlossom** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:00 am

I second Blogger. It's free and I don't have any ads at all.

Postby **Mave** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:38 am

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.

Postby **Mr. SmartyPants** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:25 am

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.

Postby **Mithrandir** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:07 pm

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!

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Need ideas: Recommend a good blogging tool?

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