Browsing or searching for communities

You can browse or search for communities that are of interest to you.

About this task

You can use a number of ways to find communities that interest you and connect with them. For example, you can browse to see what communities are available, or you can search on particular keywords.

Tags are a handy way to search or browse for a community. For example, if you are interested in photography, search for a photography tag to find all communities that use that tag. When you are creating a community, remember to include relevant tags to indicate the purpose of the community and make it easier for others to find.

Procedure

You can browse or search for a community in the following ways.

To browse for a community:
1. Select Communities > Public Communities to display all the public communities in your organization. Use the options available from the side navigation bar to display the communities that you own, the communities to which you belong, the communities that you are following, or the communities where you have a pending invitation. You can view a description of each community, the number of members it has, the date it was last updated, the name of the person who last updated it, and the tags associated with the community.
  If your administrator has enabled IBM Lotus Quickr places, use the Display field to select whether or not you want to show only communities, only places, or all communities and places.
2. Use the Sort by options to order the list by most recently updated, most popular, or alphabetically.
To search for a keyword that displays in a community's name, description, or tags:
1. Enter a word that you want to search for in the Search field.
2. Specify whether you want to search all communities or your own communities by clicking the Down arrow and making a selection.
3. Click the search icon.
To search for a community by tags:
- Click a tag in the tag cloud to find communities that use that tag.
- Find a community in the view that interests you. Then, to find other communities that use that tag, click one of the tags associated with the community.
For any community, you can:
- Find out what other communities a community member belongs to.
  - If your deployment includes the Profiles application, then clicking the name of a community member displays the profile for that person. Hover your cursor over the person's name and click the link to view their business card. When you click Communities in the business card, a list of all the public communities to which that person belongs is displayed.
  - If your deployment does not include Profiles, then clicking the community member's name displays a list of all the public communities to which that person belongs.
- Click the community name to open its Overview page.

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