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Using Connections 6 CR6
Welcome to the HCL Connections 6 CR6 documentation, where you can find information about HCL Connections 6. HCL Connections is social networking software designed for the workplace. Its features help you to establish dynamic networks that connect you to the people and information you need to achieve your business goals.
Blogs
Use blogs to share your announcements, updates, and opinions with others.
Blogging within a community
Use a blog to enhance your community with a way to ask a question, brainstorm, or simply share your ideas.
Creating a community blog
If you installed IBM® Connections Communities and you are a community owner, you can create a blog for the use of the community members.

Using Connections 6 CR6
Welcome to the HCL Connections 6 CR6 documentation, where you can find information about HCL Connections 6. HCL Connections is social networking software designed for the workplace. Its features help you to establish dynamic networks that connect you to the people and information you need to achieve your business goals.
- Accessibility features for HCL Connections™
  Accessibility features assist users who have a disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use information technology content successfully.
- Overview
  HCL Connections™ is a collaborative tool that makes it easy to connect with others and exchange ideas. Start sharing important information, building a network of useful contacts, and following people that interest you.
- Home page
  Use the home page as a command center to scan and manage items that need your attention. You can view your most recent project updates, check in on the people you follow, and review your action items all from one place.
- Profiles
  Use profiles to connect with others, showcase your skills, and find the people you need.
- Activities
  Use activities to keep a team informed, collect and share project resources, or to assign and track tasks.
- Files
  Using the Files app, you can upload, organize, share and collaborate on files easily. Files can be shared, tagged, organized in folders, and accessed from other applications, such as Activities and Communities.
- Communities
  Get together with people who share your interests.
- Blogs
  Use blogs to share your announcements, updates, and opinions with others.
  - Contributing to a blog
    Ready to share information and ideas with others? Learn how to create a blog, post an entry, and add extra content.
  - Connecting with other blogs
    Get involved in the conversation! Find blogs to follow, like entries that interest you, and share your own entries with others.
  - Managing a blog
    Are you a blog owner? Learn how to customize your blog, manage blog content, or read an overview of blog permissions.
  - Blogging within a community
    Use a blog to enhance your community with a way to ask a question, brainstorm, or simply share your ideas.
    - Creating a community blog
      If you installed IBM® Connections Communities and you are a community owner, you can create a blog for the use of the community members.
    - Using an Ideation Blog
      Use an HCL Ideation Blog to generate ideas and gather feedback on ideas within a community.
    - Managing an Ideation Blog
      An Ideation Blog owner can manage their blog in a variety of ways.
- Forums
  Share information, brainstorm ideas, ask and answer questions, and discuss topics of mutual interest in a forum.
- Wikis
  Tap the wisdom of the crowd by building a body of knowledge in a wiki. Everyone on your team can make a contribution.
- Bookmarks
  Use Bookmarks to collect and organize shortcuts to websites.

Creating a community blog

If you installed IBM® Connections Communities and you are a community owner, you can create a blog for the use of the community members.

Community blog access

Your access to a community blog depends on the type of community and your role. The way that you can view and access a community blog is as follows:

If your community is restricted, the blog is also restricted and is for the exclusive use of community members. The blog does not display on the Public Blogs page, but can be found on your My Blogs page.
If your community is public, the blog is also public. In this case, the blog displays on the Public Blogs page and your My Blogs page.
If your community is a moderated community, which is a public community that users must ask to join, the blog is public, and displays on the Public Blogs page and your My Blogs page.

Each community can have only one blog.

Creating a community blog

From your community's overview page, click Community Actions > Customize and select Blog.
Choose Create Your First Entry to create the first blog entry.
Return to your community. The new entry should be visible in the blog section.

More information

Check out Editing general blog settings to change the blog title, description, tags, timezone, member access, and comment moderation settings.

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