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

[Blake Carver]

I'll second what Cary Gordon said about using Drupal.

I personally try to keep people away from MT, mostly because it's
quite a resource hog. Wordpress should work quite well for what you
need, but I think you'll find more flexibilty, power, options and
stability with Drupal.

On 11/27/07, Cary Gordon <listuser at chillco.com> wrote:
> 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.