Community news: internal blog vs external blog. Which is the best?

[IvanPsy]

Hi everybody!

I want to build a (mini)blog to write news about my Ning Community.

This have many purposes:

- giving visibility to these news. I already have a weekly newsletter, but I'd like to have permament pages too.

- giving visibility to the world, so that other professionals, surfing the web, are able to read the news and (maybe) be interested to the Community. Here SEO features are important.

Which solution are you using for your Community?

Which solution do you think is the best?

TNX!

[JFarrow]

always inside whatever site you are trying to help with SEO...then post mini excerpts on an external blog with read more pointing to full post on the network...

[IvanPsy]

I think I created confusion: my blog is not about SEO. I say SEO is important because I want my blog to be found by other professionals (psychologists).

Well...your suggestion is still valid, is it? ;-)

I thank you: I'll do this way.

BTW: do you know some tools to automatically accomplish this? Do I need a self hosted blog to use these tools, or I can use something free (maybe Wordpress.com, Blogger, etc.)?

TNX!!!

[JFarrow]

let's discuss this some more.... what kind of external source are you looking to pull in?  What kind of sources are you actively curating from?  what kind of audience do you already have vs. what are you hoping for?