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

[Karen Harker]

We have been using MovableType for both our staff (internal) and public blogs.  We are looking forward to upgrading to v.4 for our public blogs; we're migrating to SharePoint for our staff intranets, so we will be using SP for our internal blogging.  I mention the upgrade because version 4 appears to be a vast improvement to the administrative side of MT.  One such improvement is the ability to publish a single post to multiple blogs (but they have to be on the same server, of course).  Also, managing templates (the look and feel) got even easier with v.4.  
 
Regarding licensing, the non-profit license is so cheap and easy to upgrade that this shouldn't be much of a problem.  We started out with 25, but upped to 50 once we got more people on-board.  And it's not strictly enforced...we ended up accidentally adding more than we had originally paid for; so it's not like the software will restrict you.  We did up the license officially when we discovered our error.  What you're really paying for is the support, which has been quite responsive.
 
I've no experience with WordPress, but my understanding is that they had been quite comparable. With MTv4, that may no longer be the case.
 
 
 
Karen R. Harker, MLS, MPH
UT Southwestern Medical Library
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Dallas, TX  75390-9049
214-648-8946
http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/library/ 

>>> On 11/27/07 at 8:30 AM, in message <a5c3cc000711270630y680c7e9ax8847caca3581e1de at mail.gmail.com>, "Emily Molanphy" <emolanphy at gmail.com> 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
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