SOCIAL: Blogging Questions

[Greg Zhovreboff]

Hey Catherine,

I feel like pretty much anyone who doesn't use a hosted service uses  
Wordpress. I currently use Posterous (www.posterous.com) because I was  
tired of having to maintain the back end of my site but before then  
used Textpattern which I *loved*. It's greatly customizable and is  
also wonderful for static pages.

I absolutely posterous now but it probably wouldn't be good for a  
commercial site.

g


On Jul 27, 2009, at 5:43 PM, Catherine Rauschuber wrote:

> Hello O' Wise and Web-Saavy Socialites ~
>
> I'm putting together a blog that will launch in a month or so, and I  
> have a few very basic questions as I start along this path.
>
> The blog will be called "SF Polichicks" and will feature all-women  
> writers, from across the political spectrum writing on SF political  
> and social issues.  I reserved the wordpress blog URL about a year  
> and a half ago, but haven't used it yet.
>
> My questions are:
> 1.  Is the Wordpress blogging platform the best choice?  Or at least  
> almost the best choices?  What are the major downsides and upsides?
> 2.  I would like to include an ad revenue componant.  Does anyone  
> have any good 'how to' resources about creating/maximizing blogging  
> revenue?  I know nothing at this point...  However, I have a lot of  
> solid and well-known women writers lined up, and I have a feeling  
> that the blog readership could potentially be high... so I figure I  
> should at least this to generate tiny bit of little pocket change :)
>
> Any and all feedback would be much appreciated!
>
> Thanks!
> Cat
>
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