Managing your community's Ideation Blog

After adding an Ideation Blog to a community, you can edit basic information about the Ideation Blog, change the access level of community members, and specify whether comments to the Ideation Blog are moderated. In addition, you can control Ideation Blog membership, hide the Ideation Blog, or remove it from the community.

Before you begin

You must be a community owner to perform management tasks for an Ideation Blog. You must also be logged in to IBM® Connections.

About this task

If your community has an Ideation Blog, you can manage it from the community in a number of ways. For example, you can hide or remove the Ideation Blog, or update the membership of the Ideation Blog. You can also take steps to control idea creation and voting. For more information, see Managing an Ideation Blog.

Procedure

To edit basic information about the Ideation Blog, such as its name, description, tags, or time zone, select Community Actions > Edit Community on the Overview page and click the Ideation Blog tab. Alternatively, select Edit from the widget action menu.
To change the access level of community members to the Ideation blog, select Community Actions > Edit Community on the Overview page and choose one of the following access options:
- Author. Allows members to post ideas to the Ideation Blog.
- Draft. Allows members to save draft ideas only.
- Viewer. Allows members to view ideas but not to contribute to the Ideation Blog.
When you first create an Ideation Blog, all members of the community are granted author access by default.
To specify whether comments added to the Ideation Blog are moderated, select Community Actions > Edit Community on the Overview page, and then select an option from the Comments list. Moderated comments are saved into a draft state until a community owner approves them for posting to the Ideation Blog.
To add or remove an Ideation Blog member, you need to add or remove that person from the community membership. You can do this on the community's Members page. For more information about changing community membership, see Managing community membership.
You can perform the following Ideation Blog management tasks from the community Overview page by clicking the Actions icon in the Ideation Blog widget title bar and selecting from the menu that displays:
- To move the Ideation Blog widget up or down the Overview page, choose Move Up or Move Down as appropriate.
- To hide the Ideation Blog, choose Hide and confirm that you want to temporarily remove the Ideation Blog from the community.
  When you are ready to resume Ideation Blog activity, select Community Actions > Customize and select Ideation Blog from the Hidden section of the widget palette. All the Ideation Blog content is restored to the community.
- To remove the Ideation Blog and all its content, choose Remove and complete the form that displays to confirm that you want to remove the Ideation Blog permanently.
  Important: When you perform this action, the Ideation Blog content is permanently removed and it cannot be retrieved later.

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