Joining a Community

One of WebSynergy's greatest strengths is how it enables collaborative environments, on both the business process and the social networking levels. At the heart of such collaboration is the concept of the community. A community is a group of users and/or user groups who share a common data space and set of applications.

For example, a community might have a wiki that is available only to members of the community and not to anyone outside the community. Similarly, content management systems or business process workflows can be developed for communities as a whole. Calendaring, email, and messaging can be specifically tailored to the needs of individual communities within a larger organization. The main idea behind WebSynergy is to enable the creation of virtual spaces where members of like-minded communities can meet, share ideas, and collaborate on projects.

To Join a WebSynergy Community

This procedure assumes that you are still logged in to the Paul Tester account used in the previous sections in this chapter.

1. Starting from Paul Tester's peopleSpace page, choose Add Application from the Welcome menu.

   The Add Application pane displays on the left side of the page.

2. Click the Communities entry.

   A list of community-related entries is displayed.

3. Drag the My Communities application to the location you want on the peopleSpace page.

   The My Communities application is displayed on the page in the location to which you dragged it.

   Alternatively, you could just click the Add button to add the application to the upper left corner of the page.

4. Click the close button (X) on the right side of the Add Application title bar to close the Add Application pane.

5. Click Available Communities tab in the My Communities application you just added to the page.

   A list of available communities is displayed.

6. Click the Join link for the Content Management Sample community.

   This is an Open community, so your join request is sent to the community owner. If this was not an open community, your join request would have been sent to the community owner for approval.

7. Click the Communities I Have Joined tab in the My Communities application.

   The Content Management Sample community is displayed in the list of communities you have joined.