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Using Connections 6 CR6
Welcome to the HCL Connections 6 CR6 documentation, where you can find information about HCL Connections 6. HCL Connections is social networking software designed for the workplace. Its features help you to establish dynamic networks that connect you to the people and information you need to achieve your business goals.
Communities
Get together with people who share your interests.
Owners - manage your community effectively
Give your community and its members the tools they need to collaborate.
Keeping your apps up-to-date
Keep your apps up-to-date so they're relevant to the community:
Sharing information in a community blog
Use the blog app to share information with community members in an efficient, dynamic way.
Adding a blog to your community
Use a blog to share information with your community in an efficient, dynamic style.

Using Connections 6 CR6
Welcome to the HCL Connections 6 CR6 documentation, where you can find information about HCL Connections 6. HCL Connections is social networking software designed for the workplace. Its features help you to establish dynamic networks that connect you to the people and information you need to achieve your business goals.
- Accessibility features for HCL Connections™
  Accessibility features assist users who have a disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use information technology content successfully.
- Overview
  HCL Connections™ is a collaborative tool that makes it easy to connect with others and exchange ideas. Start sharing important information, building a network of useful contacts, and following people that interest you.
- Home page
  Use the home page as a command center to scan and manage items that need your attention. You can view your most recent project updates, check in on the people you follow, and review your action items all from one place.
- Profiles
  Use profiles to connect with others, showcase your skills, and find the people you need.
- Activities
  Use activities to keep a team informed, collect and share project resources, or to assign and track tasks.
- Files
  Using the Files app, you can upload, organize, share and collaborate on files easily. Files can be shared, tagged, organized in folders, and accessed from other applications, such as Activities and Communities.
- Communities
  Get together with people who share your interests.
  - Getting started
    Find out about communities. Then, search for the communities you're interested in and join them. If you've a mind to, start your own community.
  - Members - use your community effectively
    Use community apps, such as Wikis and Blogs to share information, collaborate with others, and bring your expertise to the community.
  - Owners - manage your community effectively
    Give your community and its members the tools they need to collaborate.
    - Adding members to grow your community
      Add members to make your community flourish. You can also invite people to join the community. If the community is moderated, you can decide whether to accept or reject incoming membership requests. To add multiple members, use the import tool on the Members page.
    - Managing your community to keep it relevant
      Edit your community to update basic information about the community or the apps associated with it. If the community is no longer needed or was created in error, you can delete it.
    - Keeping your apps up-to-date
      Keep your apps up-to-date so they're relevant to the community:
      - Adding apps to increase capabilities
        Add apps to your Community so that members can benefit from them.
      - Communities apps
      - Adding forums to get the discussion going
        You can add more forums to your community to organize discussions around different focus areas. You cannot add existing, stand-alone forums to a community.
      - Organizing content in community files
        Mange your community's files using the Files app.
      - Highlighting content in galleries
        The Gallery app highlights the contents of a Files or Community folder on the Community Overview page. The app displays thumbnails or file type icons for the files in the folder. You can also use the Gallery app to display and work with thumbnails in a Library folder in the Community Overview page.
      - Keeping your community activities up-to-date
        After you add the Activities app to your community, you can edit activity details.
      - Sharing information in a community blog
        Use the blog app to share information with community members in an efficient, dynamic way.
        Adding a blog to your community
        Use a blog to share information with your community in an efficient, dynamic style.
        Managing your community blog
        Manage access to the blog, hide the blog, or remove it from the community.
      - Getting ideas flowing with an ideation blog
      - Measuring business value with metrics
        Metrics provide quantitative and qualitative metrics in the form of reports to help you measure the business value of HCL Connections™ in your organization.
      - Managing documents in libraries
        The library management tasks that you can perform depend on whether you are working with a community library or a linked library.
      - Creating a custom page with a Highlights app
        Use a Highlights app to create a page where you can aggregate content from a variety of sources.
- Blogs
  Use blogs to share your announcements, updates, and opinions with others.
- Forums
  Share information, brainstorm ideas, ask and answer questions, and discuss topics of mutual interest in a forum.
- Wikis
  Tap the wisdom of the crowd by building a body of knowledge in a wiki. Everyone on your team can make a contribution.
- Bookmarks
  Use Bookmarks to collect and organize shortcuts to websites.

Adding a blog to your community

Use a blog to share information with your community in an efficient, dynamic style.

About this task

When you are a community owner, you can create a blog for the exclusive use of community members.

Where your blog displays and how other users interact with it depends on whether it is public, private, or moderated. Users and owners can access community blogs in the following ways:

Blogs created for public communities are public blogs. In addition to being available to people who join or visit the community page, they are displayed on the Blogs Home page and are available for all to read.
Blogs created for restricted communities are available only to the community members. This type of blog is not available from the All Blogs list on the Blogs Home page, but you can view and manage it from the My Blog page.

Note: If you create a blog for a restricted community, but then change the community to a public community, the blog is displayed on the Blogs Home page and is available for all to read.

Procedure

To create a blog for your community, complete the following steps.

Click Blog on the Community overview page.
Choose New Entry to create the first blog entry.
Return to your community.
The new entry displays in the Blog area.
Note: Certain rich-text items that you add to a blog entry appear as plain text if you view them from the community overview page. For example, if you show the details so you can view an entry from the community overview page, links appear as plain text and emoticons do not display. When you open the entry you will see the link in its proper format and be able to view the emoticon.

What to do next

From the community, you can do the following:

Create a blog entry by clicking Create Blog Entry.
See all entries for the blog by clicking View All to open the Blog page.
Change blog settings, such as the title, description, tags, time zone, member access, and whether the comments should be moderated, by clicking Community Actions > Edit Community, and then clicking the Blog tab.

Note: The community blog that you create also displays on the My Blog page. You can edit the settings for the blog from that page as well as from the community.

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