(ISF) Chat application

I have a very specific IT need.

I am working on a project that involves a web community and a private chat application.

The chat/IM application need to be web-based -- like Meebo.

But it needs to be on a platform that can be customized because it will also need to:

1. match people together to chat based on elements of their profile 2. allow for eavesdropping moderation

3. allow for both automatic and manual prompts to get conversations moving

I am looking for two kinds of recommendations:

a. chat platforms that might be the basis for building what we need

b. application development vendors who have experience or are all suited for figuring this out

Thanks!

Michael Hoffman
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Have been asked if this question and I don't know the answer and wondered if anyone else did.

As small community centre would like to be able to list their forthcoming events online and were interested in using a simple blog that their volunteers could keep up to date.

But this was when they thought that if say they titled a blog entry 1st September, and then later added one titled 13th August the blog would display them by the blog entry title date. I said as far as I knew all blogging software displayed by date of entry.

Also (and as someone who has never kept a blog I have to ask this as well) would the 'comment' function that most blogs can have enabled mean that it could be used by anyone wanting to ask about a particular event function as an online form? ie could the comment just be sent to them and not automatically displayed?

This is very much a group who have few resources to spare both in terms of time and money, and this seems like a simple solution, but should they be looking at some other automated web creator rather than a blog - or is there a free database type web creator?

JW

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JW, from my point of view that is not what BLOGS do best. Blogs are mostly just about adding sequential articles on a web site. Good if you want to get the words out but not a "real" content manager. But there are a couple of WordPress plug-ins that "manage your events and
appointments and display them to the world";. I haven't tried them but I bet they let you place a calendar view the left or right column.

Clif

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