Friend looking for blog type thing

[switch842]

A friend of mine has recently become president of the homeowner's association for her condo building. She wants to set up some sort of blog-type site where information can be dispersed, possibly attach documents and stuff. The other thing is that she doesn't want it accessible to the public, so it needs to require some sort of log in to see the posts.

Does anyone know of any sites that might be useful for something like that? The only thing I can think of that would fit the log-in requirement is like a vBulletin posting board, but I don't know if she wants to get that involved with it.

Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks!

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[mackenziesmomma.livejournal.com]

If I remember correctly from my days over there you can make your Blogspot blogs 'private' and require a log-in/password to view it.

I think you can also do that on Wordpress as well.

Though the other one might be a Google Docs group or a yahoo type group where they can post info but also have a documents section. My dad's emergency services group uses Yahoo!groups, and they have the 'main' posts (the ones from the leaders) and then they have a separate page section within the group for documents and such. And you can lock Yahoo!groups down so that you need to be invited/fill out a membership form stating who you are/meet certain requirements.

[switch842.livejournal.com]

Thanks! My initial thought had been Blogspot, but I wasn't sure of the various security settings.

I will pass this info on to her.

[mackenziesmomma.livejournal.com]

It's all about the security settings ;)

I think Google has groups now too (similar to Yahoo!groups) but am not sure how they work...