making a BLOG

[THEODOOR27]

I would like to create a Blog for a group of Volunteer Tutors.
I need to assume that these people are even more computer illiterate than I am.
What I would like to do is create a Blog that shows a topic, and when you click the topic you will see the questions and posts from the other tutors.
Also I would like to let all the parcipitants automatically know by Email when a new question is asked.
I have tried "BLOGGER", but was not very successful, since I could not find out how to get into the programme to alter the settings.
There seems to be plenty of advise what to alter.
QUESTION-: Would you know an EASY way to achieve my goal of creating an easy to handle Blog?

[anandasim]

Hi Theodoor,

A blog is a personal diary (or a group diary or a corporate) or journal. It can be used various ways but it's not the strongest tool for collaboration. If you want an team effort and a Q & A type thing, then a wiki is much better. In particular, writing hyperlinks is much easier than writing links on a blog.

Here is an old wiki I made but haven't updated for a long time.

http://windowsvista.wikispaces.com/

There are other free hosted wikis - they differ in ease of use, ease of customisation, amount of write protection and ability to keep the public out.

Here is a video of what a blog does.

http://www.commoncraft.com/blogs

Here is a video that explains what a wiki does.

http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english

[aussieboykie]

drop.io is something else worth a look as a collaborative tool. Some links...

http://drop.io/about is a brief summary of what it's all about.
http://drop.io/howto is a short demo video.

Personally, I have found it to be a useful tool. Well worth a look.

Regards, AB

[flotoonie]

This is an interesting query. I have set up a couple of web based solutions for this type of thing.

The first uses Joomla with a jfusion bridge to integrate dokuwiki. I also installed agora which is a Joomla native forum component. Users of this site post questions in the forum and answers are hyperlinks to pages in the wiki or answers in the forum are copied there. The results of user interaction on a site like this can be open to public viewing should you wish it.

The second solution I have come across is software called Opengoo. It is designed to be a project manager with forum and wiki capabilities too. I think this may be your best bet as the first solution has been a bit awkward to set up for me. I don't think the public can view or access the files and results of user interaction created in Opengoo. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Hopefully these two options will widen your options