[Using Sakai] Blog tools in Sakai

[Daniel Merino]

Hi everybody.

In our migration process from the 2.5.3 version to the 2.7 version of 
Sakai, we have discovered that the blog tool which we used (post-2.5) 
isn't maintained for this version. Also, I have been told that the 
official blog tool is deprecated and is planned to be removed in 2.8 
version, although a new tool, Clog, is going to be added instead.

The alternative seems to be the contrib tool BlogWow, but in its 
Confluence page (http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-18625) is said 
that the tool has not gone through a formal QA process and is in a 
Release Candidate state.

I would like to ask the community:

- Is somebody using BlogWow in production without (too big) issues?

- Are there any other alternatives in order to have a blog tool 
integrated in Sakai?

- We are thinking about installing a Wordpress server for our 
institution. This should be a perfect solution if it has a good 
integration. I don't know very deeply the BasicLTI tool, what level of 
integration could we achieve with a Wordpress server? Is somebody using 
something similar anywhere?

Many thanks in advance.
Best regards.
-- 
Daniel Merino
daniel.merino at unavarra.es
Gestor de teleformación - Centro Superior de Innovación Educativa.
Tfno: 948-168489 - Universidad Pública de Navarra.