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We've been using Tumblr as the underlying place to store the news
about rock. This was fine so far, but there were some issues ... So
I started having a look at Google+ Pages as a possible replacement
of tumblr, and here is the pros/cons of both. I'd like to know if
there are some feelings about this ...<br>
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Tumblr<br>
====<br>
Pros:<br>
- customized look, the tumblr blog looks like the main Rock website<br>
- really blog-oriented<br>
- video posts are hard to format properly so that we see they are
new posts (e.g., they don't have titles)<br>
- easy integration with the main Rock website<br>
Cons:<br>
- used by few people (or at least, less people than G+)<br>
- video support is really bad. The tumblr player is buggy, and
there are no option to create something looking like a YouTube
channel (where all the videos can be browsed)<br>
- few of the rock people have a tumblr account<br>
<br>
G+<br>
==<br>
Pros:<br>
- great integration with youtube, among which the ability to get a
Rock YT channel<br>
- possibility to integrate some the G+ posts on the Rock website
(also a con, see below)<br>
- nearly everyone has a google account, and therefore can be given
rights to post about Rock on the Rock page.<br>
Cons:<br>
- cannot make the G+ page look like the Rock website<br>
- integration of G+ posts limited (have to use a third-party widget
like
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1">
<a href="http://www.gplus-widget.com/">http://www.gplus-widget.com/</a>)<br>
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