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Using Connections 6.5
Welcome to the HCL Connections™ 6.5 documentation, where you can find information about Connections 6.5.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.
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.
Setting preferences
Update HCL Connections™ with your preferred email notification and language settings.

Using Connections 6.5
Welcome to the HCL Connections™ 6.5 documentation, where you can find information about Connections 6.5.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 Connections
  Accessibility features assist users who have a disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use information technology content successfully.
- What's new in Connections?
- 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.
  - Start collaborating
    Find out which application you should use, and learn what an external user can do with HCL Connections™
  - Setting preferences
    Update HCL Connections™ with your preferred email notification and language settings.
    - Getting email notifications
      Control how and when you receive email notifications by setting preferences on the Email Notifications tab. Enable or disable notification emails from other users, set the language that you want to receive notifications in, and specify what email address you want them sent to.
    - Giving apps access to your data
      Give apps access your IBM® Connections data and allow them to post data to IBM Connections.
    - Changing the display language
      Change the user interface language and configure bidirectional text so that HCL Connections™is displayed in your preferred language.
  - Shared features
    Shared features are components that are available in most HCL Connections™ apps.
  - Product accessibility
    Accessibility features help users who have a physical disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use information technology products successfully.
- 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.
- 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.

Setting preferences

Update HCL Connections™ with your preferred email notification and language settings.

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