Blogs Organizer vs Blogs Automater which to use?

[JohnnyR]

Blogs organizer is a full blown publishing platform (creates/publishes the blogs, manages the links, the RSS feeds, etc), while blogs automater is a script for organizing and publising RSS feeds on already installed and configured BO, Wordpress, thumblogger or whatever type blogs.

It depends on what your needs are really...

[RedCherry]

Originally Posted by JohnnyR

Blogs organizer is a full blown publishing platform (creates/publishes the blogs, manages the links, the RSS feeds, etc), while blogs automater is a script for organizing and publising RSS feeds on already installed and configured BO, Wordpress, thumblogger or whatever type blogs.
It depends on what your needs are really...

Well we bought him a domain, and he is going to blog about stuff around town, so will be writing some of his own posts. But, he also wants to be able to easily pull in sponsor rss stuff and post with some editing. I'd like the script to be able to pull in the image off their rss feeds, and upload it to our server, so it will be there for him to use. That way I don't have to ftp everything up for him and give him links, lol.

Neither of us have ever used wordpress and I'm a bit overwhelmed. I use a really old script called pm machine, that no one's even heard of, for my blog. Someday, I'd like it to be wordpress and have tagging ability.

So would blog organizer help us build the blog on the domain, then easily pull and use posts from sponsor rss feeds, and can he edit the posts if he wants to write something different?

Sorry for all the questions.

[walrus]

Originally Posted by RedCherry

Well we bought him a domain, and he is going to blog about stuff around town, so will be writing some of his own posts. But, he also wants to be able to easily pull in sponsor rss stuff and post with some editing. I'd like the script to be able to pull in the image off their rss feeds, and upload it to our server, so it will be there for him to use. That way I don't have to ftp everything up for him and give him links, lol.

Neither of us have ever used wordpress and I'm a bit overwhelmed. I use a really old script called pm machine, that no one's even heard of, for my blog. Someday, I'd like it to be wordpress and have tagging ability.

So would blog organizer help us build the blog on the domain, then easily pull and use posts from sponsor rss feeds, and can he edit the posts if he wants to write something different?

Sorry for all the questions.

Blog Automater is a fantastic solution for pulling in RSS feeds, allowing you to manipulate them and then publishing them but it really doesn't handle writing your own posts. In fact it has no blog functions on it's own, it will only publish to existing blogs

Blog Organizer is probably the tool your looking for. It will let you write posts as well as read in RSS Feeds and allow you to edit them. It's an advanced blogging script or can post to other scripts like WP.

I have never tried using the blogging portion or BO although it looks fairly complete.

I'm sold on WP. It's the type of thing if you can think of a function you'd really like to add to your blog you can usually do a little searching and find a plug-in that will add it.

I'm not sure but I think T Pat has used BO as a blogging platform he may be more useful on how that functions. I can tell you that BO combined with WP is pretty cool