Which web publishing provider?

September 27, 2009 2:03 AM

What blog/community/wiki provider do I need?

I'm looking for a way to publish stuff and I'm not very knowledgeable about the differences between wordpress, blogger.com, google/yahoo groups, ning.com etc.

What I'm looking for is:
- time sequential publishing. A log.
- topical publishing. Either hierarchical like mini-books with chapters or wiki-like as a network of related topics.
- possibility to share some content only with chosen people
- collaboration features where other people can add content
- content remains owned by the people who contributed and can be exported
- personalisation of the look and feel
- free is nice. Very cheap is also a possibility
- I'd rather not have to host this myself.
- Of course with an online provider it's important that it will be around for a while.

There's probably not something that has it all but I'm looking for a good match.

So what are the best options for me to look into?

I want to use this as an online professional presence and as a way to hash out some topics collaboratively with some colleagues and other interested people.

Thank you for your insight.

posted by jouke to computers & internet (3 comments total)

drupal? I am sure you can find hosted versions ..
posted by 3mendo at 5:02 AM on September 27

TikiWiki is free and has it all.
Needs to be hosted somewhere, but that's pretty cheap these days. Try asmallorange. I'm no expert but this works for me so far.
posted by adamvasco at 8:37 AM on September 27

I didn't know about drupal nor about tikiwiki. So thank you for that. Apparently for drupal there are hosting providers with one click install service. Tikiwiki I don't know about yet.
Thank you for the pointers.
posted by jouke at 2:04 PM on September 27