Using Sharepoint as a CMS/public-facing site

[Pruntel,Alison]

**Apologies in advance for cross-posting**

Our county is considering the use of Microsoft Sharepoint for our public-facing site; all county departments will be expected to use this as our CMS. As we already find using it as our intranet laborious/inefficient, am hoping for feedback from other libraries using Sharepoint for this purpose (public site, CMS) and pros/cons. I realize there has been great success using Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, etc., but the decision-making entity is keen on Sharepoint. Would love links to successful local government/library "for the public" sites using Sharepoint.

Also, if you considered Sharepoint and went with something else, can you send me your "Wow factors" for choosing something other than Sharepoint. (Note: When given a list of reasons for going with tools other than Sharepoint, a key decision-maker asked for "Wow" factors -- no elaboration given -- that would make him consider something other than Sharepoint).

Thanks for considering,


Alison Pruntel
Electronic Resources Librarian
Fauquier County Public Library
11 Winchester Street
Warrenton, VA 20186
540-422-8515
alison dot pruntel at fauquiercounty dot gov
FCPL Web Site: http://library.fauquiercounty.gov
My Blog: http://fcpleresources.blogspot.com


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