I am playing around on my friend's license Blog Application before making that hefty 75$ to see if it does what I needed. Pages would actually do what I wanted but it just doesn't let anyone to create their own journal / create entries under that sort of speak. 

Will there be an option to set by group who can see these blogs instead of members that you choose. If you put in private mode, but don't put any names listed, it will still save as public. If you add a person in the list, what is the option as a staff member to see if its private or not. 

Something like the pages / forums does have an option to turn on/off if other user can see other topics or not 

Edited March 26, 20187 yr by Goza

Yes, you can assign permissions to specific groups to create blogs and also to create private ones:

I get that you can set private blogs and assigned members, but how does it determined what staff can see blogs that are set to private if their name isn't assigned to view that blog. 

You'd expect admins to be able to see them. I don't know about moderators. Best thing to do is download a demo, create an admin and a mod, then have a play.

Edited March 26, 20187 yr by Meddysong