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Blogs

Blogs

Blogs are an ideal tool for stimulating cross-team discussions, sharing expertise and unlocking new ideas.

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Think of a blog as an online editorial or article that expresses an author's opinion, observations or expertise on specific topics, events or activities. Members within an online community can create their own blog on a specific topic and/or comment and pose questions to other bloggers within the community.

Key Features

  • Access Control - set permission levels to prevent unauthorized access to a blog; assign permissions by user, role or group; control whether users can view, modify or delete blogs 
  • Attachments - attach files and supplemental content to your blog post for others to see
  • Archiving - all blog articles are archived
  • Authoring - author single or multi-authored blog posts; ideal for individuals, groups or teams within an organization to collaboratively share thoughts, opinions, ideas and knowledge
  • Broadcast - broadcast new blog articles to members within the community  
  • Channels - organize blog posts/articles into specific community channels
  • Commenting - comment on any blog stored in the community; turn commenting on/off; short window provided to edit comments
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  • Descriptions - add text describing the blog channel (fully indexed for community search)
  • Email to Blog - add new blog posts and comments directly from your email application or mobile device
  • Email Enabled - send a link to friends, colleagues and peers using your favorite email application
  • Follow - monitor who's following a blog and the activity on that blog channel or article 
  • Notifications - email subscribe to blog channels and articles to receive updates when changes are made: choose instant, daily, weekly or monthly notification options
  • Publishing - one-click publishing of blog entries to the community; save unfinished blog entries as drafts; remove or archive old/unwanted blog entries
  • Rating - allow members to rate blog articles (five star rating system)
  • Rename - change the name of the blog application (ex. News)
  • RSS - add a blog channel to your favourite RSS or Atom feed reader
  • Social Sharing - promote or increase the awareness of a community blog on the public internet by sharing it directly on social networking sites such as Digg, Twitter, Facebook and more
  • Tagging - tag blog articles and channels in the community; search for similar blogs using a tag cloud
  • Voting - vote on blog articles - thumbs up, thumbs down
  • Widgets - configure and dynamically display blog contents on any area of the community
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