[Web4lib] Movable Type or Wordpress MU for multiple library blogs?

[Cary Gordon]

FWIW, this is easy to do using Drupal. Drupal sets one "official" blog  
per user, but since most content in Drupal is in essence equivalent,  
you can use the taxonomy system to create an unlimited number of blogs  
per user, each with its own RSS feed. There are techniques that you  
can employ to make these selectively available, if that is a  
requirement.

Cary Gordon, MLS
The Cherry Hill Company
http://www.chillco.com

On Nov 27, 2007, at 6:30 AM, Emily Molanphy wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone had any experiences to share running  
> multiple
> blogs for their library on either MT or Wordpress MU. We would like  
> to start
> several blogs, each with multiple authors. The first one would be for
> internal communication and later we'd create others to communicate  
> with
> library users. Some authors would write for more than one blog, and  
> the
> different blogs should probably have different templates. Also, I'd  
> like to
> be able to maintain the blogs (in terms of spam blocking, etc.) as a  
> group,
> rather than each individually.
>
> Personally, I have a bit more experience with Wordpress, and would  
> prefer
> not to have to commit to a cap on the total number of users  
> (authors) before
> we know how the project plays out--which I think MT's nonprofit  
> license
> would force us to do. Notwithstanding my preferences, I think we  
> should
> still consider other options, including MT.
>
> Does anyone have positive or negative things to say about running  
> either
> system? Are there any other options that people have used  
> successfully?
>
> Emily Molanphy
> Web Services Librarian
> NYU Health Sciences Libraries