A community lets people who share a common interest interact with one another.
What makes a community?
Communities are groups of people with a common interest. A public community with open access is available for all to join, while a private community is restricted to a particular group. You can also start a public community with invitation-only access, allowing you to control membership and moderate access to the community's resources.
A community provides the means for users to stay in touch, share information, and exchange ideas. Communities provide an excellent way to connect members of a project team, organize a task force researching an emerging technology, or bring together a group of people who share any interest.
Use the tools provided with the Communities feature to reach out, make connections, get organized, and start sharing information. As a community owner, you can invite others to join and manage the content and membership for the community.
Communities highlights
Whether you are joining a community or starting one of your own, you can use these features to get the most out of your experience.
- Use a community's discussion forum to explore topics of common interest and debate solutions to shared problems.
- Use the Members page to add or remove members from your community. All members of the community can view the list of people who belong to the community.
- Use tags to assign descriptive keywords to your community. Tags are useful for searching for a particular type of community or filtering search results.
- Browse for communities by categories such as Recent (recently updated), Popular (communities with the most members), and Alphabetical.
- Make information available by sharing feeds and bookmarks with other members of your community.
- Import a graphic to give your community a unique look and identity.