This question has sorta come up before in different ways, but thought I'd ask again. Does anyone use one of the social network-type sites as a content management system? For example, we use Wetpaint for an internal wiki for our staff. We also use Wetpaint for a section of our site for our Science On Wheels teachers. We've had mixed results with both. But what if we moved our entire Web site to something like Ning or Wetpaint or some other such site? Alternative is to build our IT staff and create, maintain databases, Web servers, networks, etc. That means fewer resources (people) for creating content. Budgets being what they are, what if we used an outside source for the ENTIRE infrastructure and spent money on content creators? We also use Google calendars, Feedburner, Twitter, Facebook, Constant Contact, Upcoming. Google maps, etc. But the entire Web site? Lots of questions about ads, security, reliability, etc. Just wondering if any institutions do this?
Stan Orchard Pacific Science Center
