July 2006 Archives

When we started offering professional support and paid licenses for Movable Type over two years ago, the idea of business blogging wasn't obvious nor was the need for a reliable blogging vendor that a company could trust as a partner.

Since then, the power of business blogging has become obvious. So we've increased our commitment to Movable Type, the world's preferred platform for business blogging. The most visible result of which is the release of a new update, Movable Type version 3.3, along with an entirely new product, Movable Type Enterprise.

The press release contains a wealth of information that will give you a high-level overview of what this means for Movable Type users and businesses looking to get into blogging.

For both products, we've got dozens of compelling and unique new features, focused on improving productivity, and making it possible not just to succeed with your blogs, but to manage that success after your blog takes off. If you're a current user of Movable Type, you will soon wonder how you ever blogged without them.

Discount prices for businesses, and free for personal users

Part of being a reliable platform for business blogging is making sure we have a solid business model to back our world-class support team and the new investment we've made in development. One of the nice side effects of being successful with our business customers is that we can share the benefits with our entire community.

Movable Type commercial licenses are now available with deep discounts through the summer and Movable Type Enterprise is being launched with a promotion offering 45% off the regular price.

We also continue to make our personal license for Movable Type even more open: The personal version of Movable Type is now completely free, and supports as many blogs and authors as you want. Of course, we continue to offer paid support as an option for personal blogs, along with services such as professional installation.

Experience with enterprise blogging

Of course, we're not content to just repackage a personal blogging tool with a different price tag and call it an enterprise application. IT and IS departments have a tightly defined set of expectations and requirements that we've come to understand from the thousands of customers already using Movable Type.

For that reason, we've made Movable Type Enterprise available with exclusive features for integrating with the platforms enterprises depend on. We've also expanded our support offerings with priority support for enterprise customers, backed by the best support team in blogging, offering years of experience in supporting business blogs.

Whether you are an independent consultant, a small firm or a multinational corporation, we've got the blogging software you're looking for. The Movable Type family of products will not only suit your needs now, but will grow with you as your blogs become a success.

Related links

• Existing users: Log into your account to download the update
• Movable Type Enterprise features
• Movable Type Enterprise documentation
• Movable Type 3.3 features
• Movable Type 3.3 documentation
• Movable Type 3.3 changelog

Note: The update to Movable Type is being initially released as version 3.31 to sync version numbers with an earlier release in our Japanese market, MT 3.3-ja.

Nature just published a great look at science blogs, focusing not merely on blogs that discuss topics related to science, but ones that are actually written by practicing scientists. The article also features some great sidebars, including a list of science blogs by non-scientist writers, an explanation of how their list was made, and some stats about science blogs. There's some really fantastic blogging featured in the story, and even if you're not a scientist yourself, who could help but be charmed by blogs with names like Pharyngula, The Panda's Thumb, or Three-Toed Sloth? And as satisfying as it is to see this great science blogging going on, we're also proud that 30 of the fifty most popular science blogs that Nature has identified are powered by Movable Type. We're not experts at blogometrology, but we're pretty sure that's statistically significant. Naturally, Nature has its own Movable Type-powered news blog as well.