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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

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