Following communities

Follow a community when you want to be notified about the latest updates to the community, for example, community activities or blogs. You are not automatically sent these notifications if you are a member of the community; you must follow the community to receive them. External users External user icon cannot follow communities.

Before you begin

If a community is publicly accessible anyone can follow that community. You do not have to be a community member to follow a public or moderated community. If you are a community owner or creator, then you are already following the community. You cannot follow a restricted community unless you are a member of the community.

Note: If you do not want to follow an entire community, you can follow specific community content to get updates about that content. For example, if you are interested only in updates to a community wiki, you can follow the entire wiki or a specific wiki page. To follow community content, open that content from the community and click Follow to view the options available for following that content.

Procedure

To follow a community, complete these steps.

From one of My Organization Communities, I’m a Member or I’m an Owner views, browse to the community that you want to follow.
Click Follow this Community.

What to do next

You can view the communities that you are following by selecting the I'm Following view. You can also track updates in the communities that you are following from the home page by selecting Filter By > Communities in the I’m Following view.

If you no longer want to receive notifications about the latest updates to a community, you can stop following it at any time. To stop following a community, open the community and click Stop Following this Community.