Blog-in-Blog plugin by Tim Hodson allows you to use the WordPress platform more as a CMS system, but still have a blog page on your site.
Posts in a specific category can be used to feed the ‘special’ blog page, and can optionally be hidden from the home page. You can have more than one category hidden from the homepage, and subsequently more than one page full of posts.
Plugin homepage: http://informationtakesover.co.uk/blog-in-blog-wordpress-plugin/