Des Walsh has done a terrific review and analysis of all of the business blogging platforms now available to bloggers.

I highly recommend reading all ten parts of the series (six are published to date).

Part 1 - Introduction

Des starts out by building this very good mindmap of the variations and options among platforms. I'm going to start including this in my own presentations on the subject because it is the best at-a-glance view of this topic I have seen so far.

Part 2 - Sorting out the terminology

This post explains basic terms and helps differentiate the options.

Part 3 - Quick start and durable platforms

This post gives you a very good overview and comparison of Wordpress, Typepad, Blogharbor (built on the Blogware platform which we use), and Squarespace. These days when people ask for a recommendation about a blogging platform I usually suggest a Typepad blog for the small business person. But now I'll point people to this post.

Part 4 - Expanding the Mindmap

Here Des adds the free blogging platforms MySpace, bebo, Xanga, Huminity, Vox and LiveJournal to his list. I really love Vox and think it has the best user interface. If you don't mind having somebody else's ads on your blogs, Vox is by far the best choice.

Part 5 - User Types

Des outlines different user groups and looks at how needs differ among groups:

* personal

* solo business

* small business

* enterprise

* government

* not-for-profit and

* group

Part 6 - Support

A good overview of how support is handled by the platform providers.

There are four more posts planned and I encourage you to read them all.

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