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

[Kyle Felker]

We use Moveable Type, and we bought it to do exactly what you are
describing: manage multiple blogs and users from a single interface.  It
does this very well.  If you have specific questions, feel free to ask-I
maintain our MT installation and have a good amount of experience with
just about everything it does.
 
As far as your requirements, MT seems to fill them:
 
Multiple blogs, multiple users: check
 
Distinct visual templates for each blog: check
 
Communal spam management:  a bit awkward, but it could be done by
someone with admin privs.
 
-Kyle
 
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Washington and Lee University Library
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>>> "Emily Molanphy" <emolanphy at gmail.com> 11/27/2007 9:30 AM >>>
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