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Displaying shared content across multiple Sites

Sitecore does a great job of separating content from the presentation of the content. This is the main selling point of any CMS tool, but Sitecore does an excellent job of allowing this to happen. What I found not intuitive in Sitecore is the ability to display shared content. PROBLEM For instance, assume you have stories which live outside of the context of any site site. The stories can be tagged with specific categories, where each category associates to a different web site. (ok, this is a simple example, but follow me here). So you have the following structure in your sitecore tree /sitecore/content/site 1 .. [all of the nodes that make up the site] /sitecore/content/site 2 ..[all of the nodes that make up the site] /sitecore/content/Stories 2010 January Story Item 1 [category = site 1] Story Item 2 [category = site 1 and site 2] February Story Item 1 [category = site 1 and site 2] ...etc [you get the picture] POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS Wh