Microsites

Give Components Their Own Web Presence While Maintaining Brand Integrity

The Microsites product is a small content management system (CMS) that can extend your CMS to the component level, or serve as the core CMS for your small organization’s or distinct community’s website. Users appreciate that the Microsites product offers enough flexibility to create a site that fits your actual content needs, but simple enough that any member can easily use it without extensive training or technical knowledge.

A subscription to the product allows users to choose a look and feel from available templates, select which Connected Community products to use, modify navigation and create dynamic content layouts using user controls within the .net master page. Organizations protect their brand through offering component sites without having to take on heavy maintenance and oversight responsibilities, while at the same time, empowering volunteer leaders to fully self-manage their own group communications. With the ability to create as many websites as you need, Microsites gives organizations the flexibility to quickly put up and tear down new websites for special events, initiatives, and programs.

Users Love:

+ Familiar Microsoft Windows Explorer-type of interfaces that make it easy to add content and modify navigation

+ Built-in web statistics reporting, search, and banner ad spots

+ Edit-from-the-page capabilities so that you can correct mistakes or add content right from the component website

+ No technical skill required to add links, content or images

Organizations Love:

+ Community administrator can choose from a selection of themes that are in compliance with the styleguides of the organization to maintain brand integrity

+ Organizations can pre-populate model site with content and then replicate it so that new communities can be up and running immediately

+ Keeps the continuity of the website system so that content can be pushed out to communities and aggregated so that users can search across all Microsites

Common Uses:

+ Offer each of your chapters, sections, or committees their own website so that the content stays in your organization and you maintain control over your brand and messaging.

+ Offer Communities of Practice or create a KnowledgeBase that is distinct from your website that allows users to easily research and access information input by your organization and the greater membership. The value of your content base will increase as users generate content that can be tagged, commented upon, discussed, and accessed by all.

+ Small organizations often use Microsites to run their entire organization's website. The easy-to-use content management system has enough functionality to power your whole site and allow volunteers to contribute content so that small staffs are not overwhelmed.

+ Create a new site just for an upcoming event or a special initiative and keep the conversation going long after the event ends. Organizations use Microsites to provide a different look and navigation that supports the event and tie in with Resource Library to have an area to post all presentations and allow commenting.

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