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Hello Carrying on from Ken's recommendation of WordPress there's also Edublogs http://edublogs.org/ It's worth investigating, the service use WordPress as the blogging platform, but for education purposes only. Siu Ying Yip Assistant Acquisitions & Metadata Librarian University of the Art London On 23 January 2012 12:38, Ken Chad <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Wordpress is a very flexible platform. It also benefits from being a > global product with lot of users and a great community of support-- so > there are lots of 'themes' and 'plugins' and it stays up to date. It also > means people can easily have control of their own site--editing content etc > > There is a 'WooThemes' template called ‘BookClub’ that might help > http://www.woothemes.com/2011/02/bookclub/ > > Ken > Ken Chad Consulting Ltd > Tel +44 (0)7788 727 845. Email: [log in to unmask] > www.kenchadconsulting.com > Skype: kenchadconsulting Twitter: @KenChad > Open Library Systems Specifications: http://libtechrfp.wikispaces.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Web 2.0 use in libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf > Of Kat Nower > Sent: 23 January 2012 10:24 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Teenage E-book review blog > > I worked in a secondary school library in Nottingham about 7-8 years ago > and they had a bit of software called Bookbuzz, which I think pretty much > fits what you are after. It was fairly basic, so might look a little dated > now, but it might be worth seeing if anyone can tell you anything more > about it. Unfortunately the library I worked in closed down, so I don't > really have any contacts anymore... > > Kat > > -----Original Message----- > From: Web 2.0 use in libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf > Of Terri McCargar > Sent: 23 January 2012 10:05 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Teenage E-book review blog > > Hi Robert > > I don't know but we are interested in the same: a safe web space where our > kids can read and post about books, authors, reading, etc. Ideally, I would > want this to be a network for our own school primarily. And something for > all the school, without having to set up a "reading group" or set up > individual accounts. I was hoping to check out a subscription to the > Reading Agency's "groupthing" which sounded perfect, but have only just > discovered that it is no longer being supported. I'd be interested to hear > suggestions from others ... > > Terri McCargar > Librarian > Latymer Upper School > Hammersmith > London >