Looking for COMMUNITY blogging software

[WebForging]

I'm looking for a community blogging software and could use your help.

I've googled some interesting results but would rather learn from someone else's experience than do this the hard way.

By 'community' I mean two kinds of communities: one geographic, based on membership in a Wisconsin Portal with 5,000 members that I run and another professional, for a technical and maketing companies owners group that I run.

I'd like anyone with membership to be able to blog and categorize their entries. A key ingredient is Membership translating across another community site.

I'll post (in the Blogging Platforms category) today about a few platforms I came across.

Any suggestions appreciated.

Regards,
Keith

[WebForging]

After an exhaustive search we have found no multi-domain blogging software, open source or otherwise, with the exception of a roughly $500 to $1000 per month hosted solution for 50 to 100 blogs that is simply not cost-effective.

We did find a decent review of blogs and CMS solutions at http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php

The closest we came via the link above was NucleusCMS - http://www.nucleuscms.org/

This from a forum post at http://forum.nucleuscms.org/viewtopic.php?t=4668:

MDNucleus is a modification of Nucleus CMS one of the best content management/blog scripts you'll find.

I thought that Nucleus would be a great base for a multi-domain blogging tool such similar to TypePad or Blogspot.com.

MDNucleus is currently in an alpha stage but is progressing rapidly toward beta.

The forum links further to a wiki about the multi-domain blog development work for MDNucleus ("MultiDomain Nucleus") at http://wiki.gednet.com/MDNucleus

http://wiki.gednet.com/MDNucleus

Trouble with all this is that MD Nucleus is still alpha.

Any other ideas, please share them.

Regards,
Keith

p.s.: To solve our problem, we're simply doing about 150 separate installs of WordPress on a new, separate server.

[prokenoshan]

Its hard to believe that you went to that site and didnt find anything, There is alot on the site to look at . most of the CMS's have both membership features and blogging features. actually most of them started or are built on basic blogger bases.
I personally use joomla. even though I dont use it primarily as a blog, it does allow blogging capability's, separate author accounts,ect. I also use seperate blogging software to allow each member to have a personal blog. much like you are doing now on the bubbler.com.
I havent tryed it yet but dropal is sopposed to have an even better member managment features. give these two another look.

150 seperate installs is a huge. the resources needed to maintain that is unnecessary. Are these the barnstormer accounts?
there has got to be a better way, or at least i think there has got to be.

then again, im not sure of the specifications you are looking for. so maybe im just posting for nothing. hehehe wouldnt be the first time.

[WebForging]

Originally Posted by prokenoshan

Its hard to believe that you went to that site and didnt find anything, There is alot on the site to look at . most of the CMS's have both membership features and blogging features. actually most of them started or are built on basic blogger bases.
I personally use joomla. even though I dont use it primarily as a blog, it does allow blogging capability's, separate author accounts,ect. I also use seperate blogging software to allow each member to have a personal blog. much like you are doing now on the bubbler.com.

A couple of our developers think joomla is ok; a couple don't like it at all.

I havent tryed it yet but dropal is sopposed to have an even better member managment features. give these two another look.

We tried Drupal, but found that as few as 7 installs on a new server bogged it down enough to make it unusable.

150 separate installs is a huge. the resources needed to maintain that is unnecessary. Are these the barnstormer accounts?
there has got to be a better way, or at least i think there has got to be.

then again, im not sure of the specifications you are looking for. so maybe im just posting for nothing. hehehe wouldnt be the first time.

Sorry I missed this post earlier.

For BarnStormer accounts we're using WordPress mu - one master blog with many installs / options.

Thanks for your feedback.

Regards,
Keith