# Idealware offers guide to nonprofits on getting started with blogging

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/08/20/idealware-offers-guide-nonprofits-getting-started-blogging/
- Published: 2006-08-20T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Idealware, the US service that providers practical reviews and articles about software
of interest to nonprofits, has published a guide to getting started with blogging
software, with analysis and reviews of the seven most popular blogging tools.
Idealware’s
report examines seven blogging platforms – Blogger, LiveJournal,Typepad, Movable
Type, WordPress, ExpressionEngine, and TextPattern. Its researchers chose these 
tools “because they are the ones most commonly used to create a typical nonprofit
blog”, at least as reported by bloggers included in the [Nonprofit Blog Exchange](http://nonprofitblogexchange.blogspot.com).

The free report from Idealware looks at these tools’ features and functions, suggests
how to choose a blogging platform, offers summary reviews and recommendations, and
concludes with a list of additional resources.

The recommendations are particularly useful, as they suggest different tools for
different needs. For example, if you “need to get up and running quickly, without
technical skills, and the blog’s appearance isn’t important” then Idealware recommends
WordPress (hosted) or TypePad.

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Alternatively, if your organisation “is pretty technical all around, and [you] want
the most flexibility in a blogging tool,” the Idealware recommends WordPress (installed),
TextPattern, or ExpressionEngine.

While Idealware’s reports are targeted at a US audience, given that these tools 
are used internationally, the report will be of practical use to UK charities interested
in trying out the potential of blogging.

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