SharePoint vs. Community Server as a Blogging Platform
Overview
This post may be updated.
Community Server
Pros
- Integration with Office 2007
- Blogs are core functionality
- Widely used as a public blogging platform.
- Scalable and extendable.
- Integrated AD authentication (Not currently enabled)
Cons
- No workflow – approval process.
- Learning Curve – while not significant, isn't amazing either. Posting is easy. Managing changes takes a bit of work. An hour or two of training.
- Posting pictures from Word not (intuitive/possible/???)
Sharepoint
Pros
- Integration with Office 2007
- No additional licenses to buy (unless we need the connector license).
- Users can create as many blogs as they'd like. (Also a con)
- Scalable and Extendable.
- Workflow – Approval process.
- Integrated AD Authentication
Cons
- Blogs are tied to the MySites feature of Sharepoint – basically a personnel directory. We cannot (that I know of) publish a public blog on a private site like this.
- Blogs are an afterthought. Not core functionality.
- UI – No HTML Editing in browsers other than IE.
- Users can create as many blogs as they'd like (Also a pro).
- Learning Curve – Moderate to Significant – Mostly SharePoint as a platform. I know it's "Powerful" but is it intuitive?
UI
- Community Server (WYSIWYG)
- Sharepoint (Plain Text)