Which Weblogs Are Best Suited for User Group Use?

An Anonymous Coward asks: "I'm preparing a proposal to my local LUG hopefully to persuade them to incorporate a weblog into their current website. It seems to me that weblogs would be better suited to the type of communication that is generally found on LUG email lists. My questions is: Are there any LUGs out there that are currently using some type of weblog application? Are there any who are considering it, or have considered it and abandoned the idea? What are the major reasons behind your choice?"

Comments

Re:We use Wiki.

[Anonymous Coward]

Wiki's suit definitions. Weblogs suit news. Sites usually need both (the Wiki takes the place of a FAQ).

(yes yes, Wikis do have a 'most recent additions' list which could be used as news but Wiki's don't usually store intro text and main body of text separately like news sites, so use what suits)

Scoop and Slashcode are too much overhead.

[Inoshiro]

I know, I help run Kuro5hin :)

For what the LUG needs, 10 minutes of a Wiki setup is way better than 20-40 minutes on a Perl/Apache/MySQL/Scoop setup which requires more maintenance.