Blog infrastructure for a research group

[matsch]

Hi,

we want to build a small blog-infrastructure for our group at a university. Serendipity would be my first choice.

We'd like to have a blog for every user where he can have private as well as public entries. But additionally, we would also like to (selectively?) push entries to a group blog, where entries of all users are gathered. Optimally, entries (and blogs) should be identified by users' names and photos.

So, does this sound like a shared installation? There is not too much customization (possibilities) on the individual blogs necessary, but wouldn't hurt. How could we realize the group blog then?

What I've identified so far:
- shared installation(?)
- entry_properties for private/public entries
- LDAP for user authentication


Any help and pointers would be much appreciated.
matsch

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Would it maybe be good to have a singular multiuser blog, where each author gets a distinct category so all use the same admin and only have write/read privileges for their categories? Using the categorytemplates plugin, each category could have its distinct look.

The upside is that you'd automatically have a group blog, where selected articles would simply be put (even afterwards) into the "Aggregated" category.

Shared installation has the disadvantage that you have no aggregated view by default, you would manually need to synchronize a blog with the entries of all others.

HTH,
Garvin