Finding a blog or blog entry

The My Blogs page lists all of your blogs. Icons indicate whether a blog is a public blog, a public community blog, or a restricted community blog.

The Public Blogs page lists all of the blogs for your organization. Use one of these methods to find a blog or blog entry. In addition to searching or browsing for blogs or blog entries, you can also sort the views by sort criteria such as date, visits, or likes/votes.

Browse for a blog as follows:

• Click Public Blogs in the navigation pane and select Blogs Listing to see all of the blogs for your organization.
• Featured Blogs displays a sampling of blogs over the last two weeks.
• The Most Liked list displays blogs that contain entries with the most likes.
• The Most Voted list displays the ideation blogs that had the most voting activity over the past two weeks.
• The Most Commented list displays the blogs with the most comments.
• The Most Visited list displays the blogs that had the greatest number of hits over the past two weeks.
• Click a tag in the tag cloud to see blog entries that are associated with that tag, then click the blog name from the entry to open the blog.
• Search for a blog. You can change the search scope to search for blogs by name, description, or tags.
• Hover over the name of a person to open their business card, and then click Blogs to see a blog they own. If they have a default blog, clicking their name opens the default blog. If they do not have a blog, clicking their name opens the most recently created blog that person belongs to.

Browse for a blog entry as follows:

• Click Latest Blog Entries on the Public Blogs page to see the most recent entries.
• Click a tag in the tag cloud to see all blog entries that are associated with a particular tag.
• Search for a blog entry. You can change the search scope to search for blog entries by author or tags.
• Click an entry from the Featured Blog Entries section of the Public Blogs page. Featured entries are a sampling of entries posted in the past two weeks.
• Click a blog entry that someone notifies you about from your Notifications Received list on your My Updates page.
• The Most Liked list displays the blog entries that received the most likes.
• The Most Voted list displays the ideation blog entries that had the most voting activity over the past two weeks.
• The Most Commented list displays the blog entries with the most comments.
• The Most Visited list displays the blog entries that had the greatest number of hits.
• Click the My Updates tab to see only entries you authored.
• If you click a blog to view it, the Similar Blogs section shows blog entries that share common tags.

• If you are an owner or administrator, open a blog and view content by month in the Archive section.

Search for a blog or blog entry by entering a search term in the Search box and choosing the scope that best matches what you want to search.