What's new in Communities?
This release contains features designed to make communities easier for you to use to share information and to collaborate with fellow community members.The following features are new or updated for Communities in IBM Connections 3.0.1.
- Community members can upload and share photos and videos with the rest of the community using the new MediaGallery widget.
- Add an Ideation Blog to your community is a useful way to encourage community members to share and vote on ideas related to the community's area of interest.
- The Communities moderation interface gives community owners greater control over the content of their communities. If owner moderation is enabled and you are a community owner, you can review and manage the content of community blogs, files, and forums directly from your community.
- When global moderation is enabled, global moderators can review community blogs, forum posts, and files from a central location.
- If you are a community owner, you can add a custom library to your community to enable members to work with documents and folders on Enterprise Content Management (ECM) servers.
The following features are new or updated for Communities in IBM Connections 3.
- Community owners can invite people to join their community. Members of public communities can also send invitations to people who they think might be interested in becoming community members.
- If you want to bring together a subset of members within a community, you can create a subcommunity. You must be a community owner to create a subcommunity.
- You can now follow communities that you are interested in to get the latest updates from those communities in the Home page news feed.
- When creating community activities, you can add a subset of members to the activity and select the role that those members will have, or you can share the activity with an entire community.
- When you are logged in and you open the Communities application, you are now brought directly to the My Communities page.
- Enhancements to community forums mean that community owners can now add multiple forums to a community, and lock forums and topics. Community members can also perform additional tasks, such as flagging forum content as inappropriate and marking forum topics as questions.
- The new Files widget allows you to share files from the Files application with your communities, and to upload them from your local computer.
- The Recommendations widget suggests communities for you to join based on your existing community membership, network connections, and tags.
- New filtering options are available on the My Communities page, allowing you to display communities that you are a member of, communities that you own, and communities that you are following.
- Improvements have been made to the notification process whereby community owners receive an email notification when someone requests to join a moderated community. When the community owner clicks the link in the email to accept the user's request, the name of the person requesting membership is automatically added to the Members field in the Add Members form.
- When you apply a theme to a community, the theme is now also applied to the community blog, wiki, and forums, providing visual consistency when you are working with communities and community content.
- The Community Actions menu provides more functionality than in previous releases. Depending on your membership role, you can access options for joining, leaving, customizing, deleting, or mailing a community by selecting the relevant option from this menu. This menu is also now available from the community wiki, blog, and forums in this release.
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