Using the Recommendations widget on the Home page

Use the Recommendations widget to find content from the different applications that might interest you. The widget displays in the side column of the activity stream views.

About this task

The Recommendations widget suggests content that might interest you based on your existing community membership, network connections, tags, and so on. The widget displays a randomized list of public and private content that has been recently added or updated in the different applications. The recommendations made are based on your relationship with existing public and private content in IBM® Connections. An icon next to each recommended item identifies which application the content is associated with. The widget displays 15 recommendations by default.

Table 1. Application icons

Icon	Application
	Activities
	Blogs
	Bookmarks
	Communities
	Files Note: The icon shown here represents just one file type. The icon next to a recommended file from the Files application changes depending on the type of file. For more information, see File type icons.
	Forums
	Wikis

The Recommendations widget also provides information about the ways in which you are already connected to the content listed. For example, you can click the related tags link to see what tags you have in common with the suggested content. The tags that are displayed are tags that are associated with the recommended content and also associated with you in some way. You might have assigned the tags to content or to your profile for instance.

The Recommendations widget only recommends content, it does not recommend people. Use the Do You Know widget on the My Network page in Profiles when you want to get suggestions for people to add to your network.

Use the Recommendations widget in the following ways.

• If an item interests you, click the title to open the item and take a closer look.
• Click the links under the items listed to find out more about how you are connected to that item. You can view related tags or related people to find out what you have in common with the recommended content.
• Use the Previous and Next links to page through the recommendations and display more options.
• To remove an item from the list of recommendations, click the icon next to the item.