Tools related to blogs

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Tools related to blogs

• Bulletin Boards forums, moderated
  participation, post files
• Wikis (ex.Wikipedia) collaborative writing,
  instant publication, reference tool
• CMS (Content Management System) back end tool,
  collaborative writing/publication, version
  control Complex
• Digital repositories digital document archiving
  and open access, alerts to new additions
• Differences in user control, version control,
  primary organizational facet, format of content,
  alerting
• Some have blog type functions
• May lack RSS type notification but provide other
  alerting
• More collaborative functions
• All fall under groupware / content, project,
  document, workflow, knowledge management /
  collaboration
• NOAA Seattle Librarywww.wrclib.noaa.gov

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Seattle Librarys choice of Blog SW

• Blosxom small, required only Perl, limited
  functionality, lack of support
• Nucleus CMS required large SQL installation as
  well as PHP
• Pivot included functionality without SQL
• NOAA Seattle Librarywww.wrclib.noaa.gov

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Choosing the software

• Blog Software Breakdown -asymptomatic.net/blogbrea
  kdown.htm
• OpenSourceCMS - opensourcecms.com
• Blogging 101 - www.unc.edu/zuiker/blogging101/ind
  ex.html
• RSS Readers to recommend
• About RSS - www.feedburner.com/fb/a/aboutrss
• All about RSS - www.faganfinder.com/search/rss.sht
  ml
• RSS Compendium - www.allrss.com
• NOAA Seattle Librarywww.wrclib.noaa.gov

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