multi-blog systems for schools

Posted by in IT on 13th Mar 2005 | 3 comments

Unsuprisingly, it looks like I’m far from the first person to look into implementing a multiple-user blog for school use, and there sure seems to be a lot of interest in it. I do wish that I’d found this article on Google or something before I did my own research, but I doubt it’d have affected my decision to roll out pLog for some of my students or the (hopefully) imminent weblogs for teachers (just waiting for release 1.0 to come out of beta). Why?

  • My school doesn’t host our own web servers, so systems like Blojsom or Roller are no-nos
  • We can’t afford to pay a lot of money for it, so commercial systems like Manila or Movable Type also can’t be considered
  • pLog’s interface is cleaner (read: less confusing to end users) than the likes of b2evolution, nucleus CMS or even Drupal
  • WordPress Multiple User is unfortunately still too buggy at this time for such a deployment
  • pLog has a summary page which is really handy

So in short, pLog fits my school’s needs…for now, despite some caveats. Anything might change by the time the school actually rolls out a blogging system though (constantly evaluating all options and all that)

  • http://anildash.com/ Anil

    We have some pretty significant educational discounts for Movable Type, so it may not necessarily be out of your budget, depending on your situation. If you’d like, I can provide more information on how that works.

  • http://www.plogworld.net oscar

    pLog was built with sites like yours in mind. We’re glad that our project is being considered your multi-user community, an area where we think we really excel. Stop by our forums in case you need support or advice, we always try to do our best (for free :-) )

  • Paulo

    Dear Syamsul,

    Recently Manila has gone open source, so you might reconsider!