[Web4lib] Book Review... Blog?

[Anjanette Young]

GoodReads might be the easiest way to go.  It does require registration, but
it is a pretty painless registration.

http://www.goodreads.com/

Good luck,
Anjanette

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Stephanie Zimmerman <slzimm1 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Please excuse cross postings...
>
> A staff member at one of the libraries we serve wants a "blog-like" online
> site where anyone can post without having to register.  However, he wants
> to
> be able to preview what they post before publishing it.  People can then
> leave comments on it.  There are 20 staff members and lots of patrons who
> could contribute reviews but he doesn't want the complication of
> registration nor the complexity of a wiki.  Basically he wants editorial
> control without the hindrance of registration.
>
> Told him I think a wiki is best way to go, but he will have to have users
> register with that.  A clunky idea is to maybe create a WordPress Blog
> where
> there is a Google Form on the front page they can type their Book Reviews
> into.  He would then need to cut and paste that in as a post, but
> essentially does what he needs.
>
> Also spoke to our Network Admin. about it and he doesn't see a way around
> registration due to all of the spam that will come through.  He also
> thought
> about maybe using an external authoring mechanism like OpenID, Twitter or
> Facebook logins to avoid the registration issue.  But that would only help
> those people who already have those types of accounts set up.  It would
> still mean patrons not present in those areas already would need to
> register...
>
> Has anyone already done this type of thing?  If you are allowing
> staff/patrons to submit book reviews, how are you doing this and do you
> have
> links to the sites that you are willing to share.  Even if your solution
> includes registration, I'd love to see what you've done.
>
> Any help is appreciated!
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
>
> Stephanie Zimmerman
>
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