Follow-Up to Great comment battle "for CMS suggestions"

But the valuable content is coming from the commenting crowd. Most of them are talking about real life experiences with the many different CMS.

That CMS discussion looks like a great pool of CMS knowledge exchange.

What CMS do you use - and what does it do well or badly?

Paul Bradshaw from onlinejournalismblog.com also asks his readers what CMS to suggest.

I’ve been teaching my student journalists how to use the content management system for our new news website (more about that in a later post). We’re using Joomla - it does a lot, but it’s not exactly user-friendly, which ironically makes it a very good experience for anyone who’ll have to use newspaper CMS’s.

And this begs the question: what CMS do you use - and what does it do well or badly?

Well my answer on onlinejournalismblog.com was eaten by the WP comment system (no reason given) but here is my comment mirroring my actual point of view:

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Looking for a multiple site software?
Do you want a 'post once publish many' feature?

Building a blog network with Pivot looks easy.

I recently stumbled across a blog software which has outstanding publishing options. Normally I am using Textpattern as my preferred CMS for single site projects and I am very convinced about it. But Textpattern is not able to handle multiple sites as are most of the other blog CMS.

• Pivot is able to post to multiple sites in different article formats based on individual templates.
• Based on the categories for one article Pivot automatically knows on which one of n sites to publish the article.
• Having the full article on one blog and having the title and permalink only on n additional blogs is an out of the box and easy to realize Pivot core feature.

Yes, automatic publishing to different domains by only posting once. Blog networking made easy.

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