School Blogging Compendium BlogwareI saw a fantastic post yesterday from what must be an amazingly progressive school.  These people are discussing potential issues related to finding a blogging solution for every student in the system.  (by comparison, my daughters high school doesn’t even discuss blogging in journalism class.)

This is an excellent discussion and a great concept. Compendium Blogware is a SaaS blogging solution designed specifically for organizations. Our clients are typically Corporations or Business Bloggers, with a lot of non-profit blogging. We have not worked with a school, but the way they describe their challenges I think this might be the perfect solution.

Compendium is On-demand (hosted, ASP, SaaS whatever term you are familiar with) As a result it is easy to deploy to lots of people such as students in this case. We have a layer of control so that all posts are reviewed by someone before they go live…the same is true for comments. In most cases this is all about insuring compliance with standards, not necessarily about editing out content.

An interesting challenge they pose is how to organize content. The definition of a Compendium is a collection of similar writing. What our system is designed to do is “Compend” content based on content or posts.

Usually, our blogging solution clients compend content based on keywords for SEO, but it seems completely feasible to organize a single post from a student around various compended blogs…so if Billy posts on 9th grade history and Algebra, the post appears on Billy’s blog, the 9th grade blog, the history blog and the Algebra blog…without Billy having to do anything other than write…no tagging. That seems like a great way to implement blogging best practices in an educational institution.

Anyway, I would love to test some of these concepts with a school if they were interested.  Not that I’m already tired of Corporate Blogging Software :-)  We want everyone using our Blogging Solution.