On Sep 22, 2006, at 9:54 AM, Tom Streeter wrote:
>
> Does anyone have any experience using iWeb + .mac for simple  
> blogging or discussion-list-type activities? I need to set up a  
> password-protected blog for a group of folks working on an edited  
> volume, and MT seems to have a pretty steep learning curve, and no  
> easy way to password protect discussions.
>
> Tom

If you're not doing file sharing, you might consider one of the  
Google Office tools. I'm familiar with Notebook, and yesterday Hope  
was mentioning that she was developing a blog entry on Writerly, a  
shared writing space.

I'm not sure what type of password protection (read, write, etc) you  
were looking for. But if you don't mind possible public reading, but  
want to require login for registration, wikispaces is pretty nice

	http://www.wikispaces.com/

	http://www.google.com/groups/	- works best with a google account (free)

	http://www.yahoogroups.com/ 	- works best with a yahoo  account (free)

More classical options are things like:

	http://www.webex.com/	- online "small business office" about $40 a  
month.

	http://www.eroom.net/	-

	http://www.teamworkzone.com/


If all of your members are Macintosh users, .Mac has nice desktop  
integration.