Is Graffiti a blogging platform?

Yes ...and no. A blog is simply one way that a content publishing system can be used. Does Graffiti support concepts commonly found in a blog? Can it be configured to work like a blog? Absolutely!

When we built Graffiti we first looked at Community Server, our very successful social networking platform that includes tools such as blogs. Community Server's blogging platform is incredibly powerful and excels at creating blogging communities build for more than a single blog. But we also saw a lot of customers that wanted a simply to setup and use blogging platform that was designed more for the individual. That is what we've done with Graffiti.

Using Graffiti as a blogging engine is as simple as picking a blog theme and adding content. Below are some of the common concepts that bloggers expect:

Comments

All content in Graffiti supports comments:

Spam prevention

Comments are a favorite target for posting unwanted content (SPAM) by people or by spam-bots. Graffiti has built in support for Akisment, a free service that is pretty good about identifying what is and is not spam:

Comment management and moderation

Comments are easily managed (or moderated) through the Graffiti comment management tools:

Additional comment management tools

Graffiti comes with a number of other comment management tools to help ensure you can control how comments are management for your site:

Tags

Tags are a powerful way to organize content by common keywords allowing people to browse keywords and quickly find content:

While we've shown off a few of the expected features that bloggers want there are also a lot of capabilities bloggers will appreciate (Widgets, Themes, and more)!

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