Forum Discussion
Best practices: small communication sites
Does anyone have any insights on when a seperate communicationsite is viable?
Sometimes topics seem a bit small to justify creating a seperate communicationsite and link it to the hub.
Instead I could just create documents and pages in the hub itself instead.
Or is that bad practice in the long run?
It depends...
The justification of separate communication sites linked into the hub come down to the ownership of the other communication sites attached hub site. Say you have a internal communication department running the Hub site - they would post really broad (things applying to the entire company) articles and notices here. The attached communication sites could be owned by other departments with their own article set keeping their department at the focus of the articles.
At the hub level - the internal communication department then could rollup content from the attached sites (use audience targeted web parts or by recycling published content - i.e. Congrats to our sales team for making the deal! Read more about it here).
Soooooo, if you can't justify using multiple sites and you're going to use a single communication site just make sure to store your documents and pages with some sort of information architecture in mind to group the documents together. Then if you need to grow into a multiple site implementation it will be easier to identify the documents and pages that need to be moved based on potential ownership and audience.
- thanks for your feedback!
