I took a look at iUpload's Personal Publisher, a hosted blogging platform for organizations. As their site comments, “With Personal Publisher, an organization can use a blog or a group of blogs to engage its customers and partners in conversation, or staff, project teams, etc. can easily communicate, collaborate on ideas, and organize and share knowledge.” They allow organizations to create a series of their own branded blog sites that members of the community can build themselves.
Blog content can be added by email, from their mobile phone, as well as from their computer. I think this feature will be useful in many places, but especially in places where computers are not as available such as the Middle East. This is the tool that is being used to develop an Arabic language blog tool. Renee Blodgett has nice description of this effort. I commented on it yesterday.
Aggregation is also built in through RSS and ATOM, like many blog tools. The difference here is that you can work the aggregation across and within the blog community you develop for your organization. You can group your blogs by categories and other means. In addition to comments, you can send invitations and forward stuff to a friend. There are some other nice features like integrated search and spell checking which I would find nice.
Hey Bill,
Just wanted to let you know that we've publically released the beta version of our next generation Personal Publisher. This is the Personal Publisher that powers the Arabic language blog tool.
The only difference between the Arabic language blog tool and the one we've released to the public is that they have different "skins." New skins can be created in a matter of minutes (assuming we have the language translations) to allow for different languages to be supported.
Thanks for the great write-up and feel free to try out our new Personal Publisher!
Best Regards,
Robin Dindayal
Lead Software Developer, Personal Publisher
iUpload
Posted by: Robin Dindayal | December 22, 2004 at 04:57 PM