mamamusings: September 26, 2004

mt as content management software

In the comments of my evangelism post on Friday, a discussion on the merits of Movable Type as a CMS for general purpose (non-blog-like) sites has begun. It got me thinking that it would be nice to have a list of sites using MT (or other weblog software) for more traditional CMS purposes.

So here’s my start, with the stuff I know about. Feel free to add links in the comments, and when I finally get my wiki running, I’ll shift it (and the edublogging resources page) over there. (Full disclosure: I’ve shamelessly stolen some of the examples from the Tutorials and References listed below…)

Examples

• My courseware (example: Intro to Multimedia)
• Andy Phelps’ personal web site and Muppets research site
• Boxes and Arrows, an information architecture magazine/resource site
• Stanford Center for Internet And Society
• The Morning News, a daily online magazine.
• Adaptive Path’s company site
• Every content site in About.com
• Hunterdon Central Regional High School (uses Manila rather than MT, but could easily have been an MT implementation…)
• Into the Blogosphere, a peer-reviewed essay collection on “discursive, visual, social, and other communicative features of weblogs.”
• SeattleParent.org
• MuniWireless.com
• Main website and cyberportfolios at the Institut St. Joseph in Quebec

Tutorials/Discussions

• Doing your whole site with MT (Brad Choate)
• Beyond the Blog (Matt Haughey)
• Description of the Adaptive Path redesign (Jay Allen)
• Rebuilding a Portfolio (Doug Bowman)
• A Movable Type Intranet (Keith Robinson)