If you are a community owner, you can add an Ideation Blog
to your community to enable members to share and vote on ideas that
are relevant to the community. A community can have only one Ideation
Blog.
About this task
An Ideation Blog is a central place where community members
can share and promote ideas in a dynamic way. By capturing ideas in
a central location, you can leverage the creativity of your members
and encourage them to brainstorm, develop, and refine innovative concepts
that support the community's goals.
Ideation
Blogs are also accessible from the Blogs user interface, where Ideation
Blogs belonging to public communities are visible to everybody. Ideation
Blogs created for restricted communities are visible to community
members only.
Procedure
To create an Ideation Blog for your community, complete
the following steps.
- From your community's Overview page,
select .
Note: You must be logged in to access the Community
Actions menu.
- Select Ideation Blog.
- Optional: Close the widget palette.
Results
An
Ideation Blog area is added to the
community's
Overview page. As community members
start to add content to the Ideation Blog, this area displays a summary
of the latest idea updates and tells you how many comments, visits,
and votes each idea has received. Click
Create Your First
Idea to add your first idea.
An Ideation
Blog link also displays in the navigation sidebar. Click this link to open the Ideation Blog in the
Blogs user interface. Note that the Ideation Blog is automatically
given the same name as the community.
For
more information about how to work with your Ideation Blog, click
the Help link in the navigation bar. You can
return to the community at any time using the navigation links that
display at the side of the page.
What to do next
From the community, you can do the following:
- Add an idea to the Ideation Blog by clicking Contribute
an idea under Ideation Blog.
- Select an idea from the Ideation Blog area
to open it and review it in more detail.
- View all the ideas added by community members by clicking View
All to open the Ideation Blog.
- Select Ideation Blog from the navigation
to access more options for working with the Ideation Blog.
For information about how to manage
your Ideation Blog to effectively control idea creation and voting,
see Managing an Ideation Blog.
