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Using Connections 7.0
Welcome to the HCL Connections™ documentation site, where you can find information about Connections. 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.
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.

Using Connections 7.0
Welcome to the HCL Connections™ documentation site, where you can find information about Connections. 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?
  HCL Connections 7.0 gives collaboration a boost with these new features and enhancements.
- 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.
    - Creating a blog
      Create your own blog to share your ideas with your colleagues.
    - Creating an entry
      Have a big announcement or idea? Create a blog entry to tell others about it. You can contribute to any blog for which you have owner, author, or draft permission.
    - Editing or deleting an entry
      Changed your mind about an entry? If you have the appropriate permissions, you can edit an entry or delete it from the blog.
    - Adding files and links
      Feel like your blog is missing something? Add files or links to websites, feeds, and images.
  - 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.
- 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.

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.