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Which Weblogs Are Best Suited for User Group Use?

Posted by Cliff on from the fascilitating-group-communication dept.

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?"

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  1. Scoop... by OneFix · · Score: 5, Informative

    Scoop is probably the best solution for your needs. Anyone can add articles, the group votes the best ones to the front, and admins can vote announcements/time critical stories to the front page.

  2. We use Wiki. by Inoshiro · · Score: 4, Informative

    At the Saskatoon Linux Users' Group, we use the WikiWeb. Wiki allows all members to annotate and update the pages, rather than requiring a central authority to filter all changes in. A plus is that everyone can contribute equally.

    Also, it supports versioning, so it's handy for many other group oriented activities that involve planning.

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  3. Geeklog aint too bad by McCarrum · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've used Geeklog for three groups sites .. one of them with a tech focus, one is an SCA site, one for a non-profit organisation. Like 90% of blogs out there, it's fairly stable, has nice templates, yadda yadda yadda. It has built in calendaring which is nice also. I'd recommend it ... the number of security issues behind it are pretty much zilch.

    Postnuke is pretty amazing, but IMNSHO it's becoming very large. Takes a bit to get it customised to the level you want.

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  4. Slashcode by Alethes · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you like the way this site works, you can get the code here.

  5. Drupal by Sabbath.sCm · · Score: 4, Informative

    Drupal seems to have all the features of Slash and Scoop plus more. And you only need PHP & MySQL support, so it will run even on a Windoze box.

  6. Why not a BBS? by XDG · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I agree that a Wiki might do better for broad knowledge capture and participation from many people, but for a more static and searchable form of communication than e-mail, why not just use a BBS? I like and use phpbb, which is a snap to install and maintain, and requires less user knowledge than a Wiki in order to post content.

    (This is like a throwback to the user-group days of old when we actually used green-screen BBS's on 2400 bps modems... but sometimes the oldies are goodies.)

    XDG