There have been some interesting developments in a few days time. Overall, the project is glacial, but there have been some rapid-fire developments interspersed among the nothingness.
According to our techie, there are THREE blogware installations up, which is TWO more than there were last week. I've been granted administrator access to at least one of them, so I'm going to be spending this week (before Thursday) going through and evaluating them both from the user's perspective and for an administrator.
I'm guessing that I won't be around forever, so I'm really looking for something easy-to-administer, and without that administrator access I couldn't really look at that.
One installation also has the blog-by-email feature that I've been touting as the "killer ap" for this project. My group has been through a lot in the past year; the changes in software and process have fundamentally changed the way their job is done. I didn't want to make any more changes that cut that deeply.
The hope is that integration, where they don't have to change the program they use to communicate, will enable everyone to use it as a resource and something worth doing without having to learn anything new; something they've had more than their fill of in the past year. Blog-by-email would allow them to contribute to the blog using Outlook, which is how they are used to communicating.