Use an Ideation Blog
Create an Ideation Blog so your community can contribute and vote on ideas.
Procedure
- From your community's Overview page, choose Community Actions -> Customize.
- Select Ideation Blog.
- Click Create Your First Idea to add an idea to the blog.
- Click Vote to vote for an idea you support.
If you change your mind about an idea you voted for, click Voted to cancel your vote.
Note: The number of votes each participant can cast is configurable from the Settings page for the blog. Participants can cast unlimited votes or be limited to a specified number. Status messages track the number of votes used and the number of votes available.
- Click Add a Comment to comment on an idea.
- When you decide that an idea has enough support from the community, click Graduate.
You have the option to create an activity to further develop the idea. If you change your mind about a graduated idea, open the idea and select Cancel Graduation.
- To review activity in the Ideation Blog, choose one of the following views from the navigation pane:
- All Ideas shows all ideas that have been contributed to the Ideation Blog, including graduated ideas.
- Graduated Ideas to view ideas you have graduated.
- My Votes shows the ideas you have voted for.
What to do next
To search for an idea or a comment in an Ideation Blog, choose one of the following search scopes in the search bar:
- Public Ideation blogs to search for a string in an Ideation Blog in public communities.
- Public Ideas to search for a string in an idea in public communities.
- Public Idea Comments to search for a string in a comment associated with an idea in a public community.
- My Ideas to search for a string in ideas you have contributed.
Parent topic
What is an Ideation Blog?
Related tasks
Add an Ideation Blog to your community
Post ideas to an Ideation Blog
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