Moving your blog to Community Server 2.1
How do you move your blog to Community Server 2.1? Well, of course it depends on what blog you're on today. When I started thinking about this I stumbeled on a BlogML project of Keyvan which he mentiones in this post.
His own words about the tool from the readme
This control helps you to import your blog content from another blogging tool which supports BlogML standard to CommunityServer 2.0 or vice versa.
I am not sure if it will work for CS 2.1 as well.
But another way to do this hit me when I was sitting and playing with the new blog mirror functionality in CS 2.1 (Control Panel - Administration - Blogs - Blogs - Mirrors button for your blog). Of course, I could create my new blog on my CS 2.1 site, and add a mirror for my old site, let it replicate and then remove the mirror. So if the functionality provided by the blog mirroring is enough for you, you'll have a built-in blog migrator in CS 2.1. Pretty cool!
Blog mirror functionality in Community Server 2.1
Now, you won't get any comments with you, some of the links will still point back to your old site etc. But there might be reasons you want to keep your old blog for a while anyway. You might have RSS subscribers that you don't want to recieve errors if they haven't had time to change their links for example.
In any case for me it was quite enough to use the mirroring to move my blog. and this could be used for, I guess, any blog that has a RSS feed, which makes it very useful for a migration tool on top of what is was meant to be used for.
When it comes to moving your RSS readers over to your new link, you could use the new External Feed URL feature and redriect your readers to your new site automagically. I haven't yet tested that myself though.
External Feed URL for syndication
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