When I started this blog, I decided to use my Office 365 tenant to host it. I figured that if I’m writing about Office 365, I should use that platform for as much as possible. So far, I’m not very impressed with the Blog functionality.
There seems to be a serious lack of maturity in the SharePoint based blog. Maybe it works well in a corporate environment where you may not need features that folks are used to on other Internet blogs. For example, I have not been impressed at all with the comments system. Being able to use a service like Akismet to weed out the comments that are likely spam would be a plus.
I like the integration with Microsoft Word as my authoring tool, but I can do that with WordPress also. It is nice to able to share some content between the blog site and the backend SharePoint site, but so far I haven’t had the need for that.
I’ll be working on moving this site over to another hosting company that I use. I can quickly stand up a WordPress site and have all of the features that I’m looking for in a blog. In the meantime, I’ll keep an eye on advancements that I’m sure Microsoft will make in their approach to blogging. If they start getting it right, I’ll think about moving back.
Nice article.