Managing User Communities

A community is a group of people who network with each other to share information, ideas, likes and dislikes. Typically, people or members in the community are connected by a relationship. For example, they work for the same company, went to the same school, share values, or have a friendship.

When you visit a community site, look around to see the kind of information, people and groups that are on the site. Typically, you can see only limited information initially. To see all information, you need to become a member. When you sign up to be member, you enter information about yourself in a member profile. After becoming a member, you can:

maintain a personal profile, including an avatar
search for other members and add them to a friends list
join or create a community group
invite non-members to join a community and become a friend
add photos and documents to a personal or group profile page
determine which other users and groups can view and update those files
update status and share that update with selected members
post public or private messages to another member’s message board
keep a journal of your thoughts
create a list of favorite Ektron content links
have a list of content that you have added
write content reviews
flag content

The Community Platform in Ektron is a group of features that lets users network socially on a Web site. Access to the community platform is available from the Web site or the Workarea but only Ektron users and administrators can access their information via the Workarea. As an Administrator, you can manage Community features from the Workarea. Membership Users, Ektron users, and administrators can access their profile pages via a Web site.

This section also contains the following topics.

To learn about the server controls that let membership users log into an Ektron site, see Logging in through Facebook and Login Server Control.