Bottom line needs:
1) a place where about 15 people can freely post and communicate with  
one another in private (i.e., not open to public), and
2) as close to an effortless (or very easy) setup as possible; I  
don't have time to experiment with different platforms, learn complex  
commands, etc.

iWeb is effortless. But I don't know whether using it with .mac for  
password-protected blogging is.

Tom

On Sep 22, 2006, at 10:20 AM, Steve Cavrak wrote:

> 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.