Blogcast

About Blogcast

Blogcast delivers expert support, services and know-how of a Movable Type expert at a better value. We take care of the hard, boring and on-going technical stuff so you can focus on publishing to your blog.

Based on years of Movable Type consulting experience, we’ve taken our expertise and assembled a best of breed package, providing everything you'll need to get up and running easily -- Movable Type software and plugins, support services and top-tier hosting to organizations.

Through this experience and bundling of services, we provide sophisticated solutions that are streamlined and more cost-effective with less risk.

Blogcast is an active and long standing member of the Six Apart Professional Network and a Rackspace Select Partner.

Our Manifesto

Blogging is transforming how a business communicates and collaborates, and Movable Type has emerged as the leading blog platform for professionals. It's no surprise really. Movable Type is a mature tool that has been in use for over 5 years by countless users around the world. During this time Six Apart has continuously improved and evolved the tool with many powerful features to scale with the growth of blogging and the sites it backs. Despite its power and sophistication, Movable Type makes blogging easy for any type of user.

While the benefits of blogging today are clear and Movable Type's well-crafted design balances power and simplicity better then any tool on the market, it doesn't run by itself.

What you want to do is blog because that is what is valuable to your organization. In order to do that you need to understand, assemble and operate a lot more then just Six Apart's software.

For most companies this can seem daunting and difficult to do effectively without potentially costly misteps and delays. For us it is second nature. We have worked on business blogging projects longer than most and we know what it takes to build a system that is both powerful and easy to use.

This is why many companies large and small have engaged our staff's services. While Movable Type consultants in the Six Apart Professionals Network will yield excellent results, working out the specific details of each system setup from scratch takes time and effort -- costs that are passed on to the customer. Further it does not address ongoing maintenance and operations after a consultants work is through.

Blogcast was expressly created to address these issues.

Blogcast represents our way of delivering expert support, services and know-how of a Movable Type expert at a better value. We take care of the hard, boring and on-going technical stuff so you can focus on publishing to your blogs. Better still, we provide one point of contact for anything related to your whole system.

At the core of the Blogcast offering is Movable Type and a collection of the best free and commercial plugin extensions available pre-installed and ready to go -- no additional licenses or support contracts needed.

We've added world-class web hosting services with tried and true software for serving web pages, database services and email to provide a reliable and ideal environment for Movable Type that is provided by Rackspace Managed Hosting.

Having a preset configuration for an optimal Movable Type software stack reduces risk and streamlines the process of getting up and running.

The Blogcast service doesn't stop with the setup. Once running, maintenance such as upgrades of all software and system backups are handled as part of the service. We also provide ongoing support in addition to what we call "mentoring."

Typically support only starts when there is a problem. When it comes to figuring things out or doing it right -- you're own your own. Mentoring is the ability to ask us advice at any time. Have a question about how to do something with MT? Not sure something is a good idea? Just ask it's part of the Blogcast service. With mentoring you can do things quickly and effectively and stay out of trouble in the first place.

Blogcast represents our years of expertise and know-how developing the very best Movable Type systems assembled into one integrated package that provides the best of everything you'll need to get up and running.

Let us take care of the hard, boring and on-going technical stuff so you can focus on publishing to your blog. Contact us so we can show you how.