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From the product selection process to the actual launch of this multi-user blog system at the University of Calgary took less than 2 weeks! Amazing work. D'Arcy and his colleagues screened through over a dozen of multi-user blog/cms type of social software and decided to go with Drupal, a well built open source CMS in PHP and mySQL. Here is D'Arcy's reason on choosing Drupal over others:
"Why use this rather than something like Blogger, or Typepad, or something else? The biggest benefit (at least initially) is the ability to create ad-hoc organic groups, where content that is published by group members is displayed on a "group page" - an easy way to collaborate with a research group, a breakout group that's part of a class, or a department."
I have been looking at some of these social software lately for our learningtools web site, and I would have gone for Plone if we have enough Python expertise in our team. It seems that Drupal is not a bad choice either...
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