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Using Connections 6.5
Welcome to the HCL Connections™ 6.5 documentation, where you can find information about Connections 6.5.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.
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.
Posting a comment
Get involved in the discussion! Comment on a blog post or respond to a comment on your own.

Using Connections 6.5
Welcome to the HCL Connections™ 6.5 documentation, where you can find information about Connections 6.5.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 Connections
  Accessibility features assist users who have a disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use information technology content successfully.
- What's new in Connections?
- 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.
    - Posting a comment
      Get involved in the discussion! Comment on a blog post or respond to a comment on your own.
    - Liking an entry
      Let the author know that you liked a particular blog entry and recommend it to others. Liking an entry gives that entry more relative importance when the entries are sorted by using the Likes/Votes option.
    - Finding a blog or entry
      Find new blogs and entries that matter to you.
    - Following a blog
      Follow a blog to stay up-to-date on new posts and announcements. The notifications are delivered to the Notifications section of your home page.
    - Notifying a user about a blog entry
      Notify other blog users about an entry that you think might be of interest.
    - Flagging an entry as inappropriate
      See something you consider inappropriate? Flag the entry so that a reviewer can determine whether to remove it from the blog. This feature must be enabled by your administrator.
  - 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.
- 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.

Posting a comment

Get involved in the discussion! Comment on a blog post or respond to a comment on your own.

Posting a comment

Click the entry that you want to respond to.
If the blog is set up to accept comments, click Add a Comment.
Enter your comment in the text box.
Select Add this as a new entry/idea in my blog if you want to add this comment as an entry to your blog. If you have more than one blog, choose one from the list.
Click Submit to publish the comment to the blog. Multiple comments for an entry are displayed in the reverse order in which they were created.
If you'd like to notify others, select More Actions > Notify Other People from the comment action list and choose people to notify.

Note: If the blog's comments are moderated, the comment does not display immediately. Someone must approve the comment before it is displayed. Otherwise, the comment displays after the entry.

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