We just use WordPress’s Blog part to do our outages and present other information in the pages.
Https://help.ess.msu.edu/wordpress/

We even have a RSS plug-in that consumes the MSU Service Alerts and Spits them back out for us.
The interface is a lot like working in Word and if you already have a layout that you use it is rather simple to convert it  into a theme for use with Wordpress so it gives you a seamless presence.

It allows for Access control so that different users have different levels of access and there are plug-ins that allow further restrict of content editing.

:)
Missy


Missy Koos
Webmistress & Database Developer
*nix Administrator

Vice President for Student Affairs and Services &
Associate Provost for Academic Student Affairs and Multicultural Issues
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Michigan State University
Phone: 517.432.7512
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On 8/23/07 11:36 AM, "Michael J. Wolthuis" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

I was just wondering if anyone had a recommendation for an open source program that would possibly let anyone in an IT helpdesk environment put in network outages / network emergency maintainence / network planned outages / etc into a GUI interface (like MS word, think easy) and then it will auto publish to a webpage?
 
I know I could write one easily, but if there is already a canned or open one out there I would love to know before duplicating the wheel.
 
Thanks!
 
Michael Wolthuis