Invision Blog Software

[Tami]

Got this in an email from Invision Power Services

Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the Community Blog plugin for Invision Power Board.

The Community Blogging system will allow you to create a list of members with a Blog. Based on authorization the member can link to an external Blog, or create a hosted Blog. The administrator can define which usergroups can See, Create, Create hosted and Moderate the Blogs.

Current and Planned Features:

- Entry comments
- Users can customize the look of the Blog (viewmode, blocksposition, custom content blocks)
- Calendar, Last entries content blocks (which the user can enable/disable).
- Custom Content Blocks (users can add content blocks containing user defined content)
- Posting entries as draft to be published later.
- Assign Moderators to the Blogging system.
- Search the Blog Entries on keywords.
- View the history of the Blog.
- Locking of Entries.
- Private Blogs (only the Blog owner can see it).
- RSS feeds.
- Categories (allow the user to define categories and asign entries to them; the user can filter on a category)
- About me feature (it will display some member information with statistics and content the member defined)


The Community Blog plugin will be a low-cost addition to Invision Power Board license holders. We will also be offering IPS Forum Hosting customers the option of adding the Blog software to their hosted communities.

We expect the first public release to be available by mid-November 2004. Keep an eye out for updates until then!