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Subject:Re: Tracking and storing blog posts From:Michael McCallister <workingwriter -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"Janoff, Steven" <Steven -dot- Janoff -at- ga -dot- com> Date:Thu, 9 May 2013 13:34:33 -0500
Steve,
Glad you found a solution!
When/if you get around to looking at a CMS, you should look at Joomla too.
It's not perfect, but has some nice features, and a decent plugin ecosystem
too. FWIW, the MySTC network site is built on Joomla.
Mike
Mike McCallister
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On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Janoff, Steven <Steven -dot- Janoff -at- ga -dot- com>wrote:
> Thanks Robert, Margaret, and Michael. These are all great ideas.
>
> Turns out at the other end they are managing it all via e-mail, using
> Streak (Streak.com) and Gmail. I'll be hooking in to share a pipeline and
> we can consolidate. That keeps me in the management loop.
>
> For the current purposes looks like a CMS will be overkill. But it looks
> like the "big 3" in this area, based on what you've said and a little
> poking around, is WordPress, Movable Type, and Drupal, and I want to look
> into these a little further for future purposes.
>
> The Excel idea is also nice -- thanks for that, Margaret!
>
> How about those developers, though -- they invent these things and don't
> really tell you about them!
>
> Thank you all again.
>
> Steve
>
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