Learning the World

I’m looking at doing a pilot of WordPress Mu as a campus-wide blogging platform, and I’m curious as to what others experiences have been with the software. At this point I’m kicking the tires and figuring out what plug-ins we’d need to include to do what we want to do.

I see four big needs for the blogging platform:

• Blogging (it does this out of the box, no big deal)
• Podcasting (in theory, I think it creates RSS enclosures for uploaded files, but I’d rather that give people a finer degree of control)
• Video Insertion (plugins for YouTube, Hulu, etc.)
• Photo Galleries

PodPress seems a logical choice for Podcasting, but I’ve heard mixed reports about how well it works with Mu. Photo Galleries are another challenge; we’re debating going with a hosted service like Flickr vs. a locally installed option like Gallery. Authentication is the big issue there; if we go with Flickr, everyone has to maintain their own accounts. If we go with Gallery or something hosted locally, then we have a better chance of integrating it into our existing authentication schemes.

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