There are now a lot of tools available to let you manage your site without ever having to build a CMS. You can put your site images on Flickr or Amazon’s storage service, you can manage and create posts with Tumblr, and you can make your comments social by using FB Connect or by using the FB Comment widget. There are even more solutions out there than that if you look. The only downside of using social media tools is that you don’t have complete control over your information since it lives on other websites than your own.
My question is when push comes to shove do you build a custom CMS for your site or integrate all the freely available Social Media tools’ API’s or even better a hybrid of both?
It seems like the hybrid site may be the way to go these days because it allows you to make more use of your information everywhere. Add to that you would create a small CMS to publish your data and use social media to manage the comments (FB Connect, etc). You could also still make use of Flickr or Amazon Web Services for image storage and YouTube for all your video content.
Ideas?
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