If you learn about a community that is doing work related
to a community that you own, share that information with other community
members.
Before you begin
You must be a community owner to share related communities.
If you do not see a Related Communities widget in your community,
add the widget to your community so that your team can share information
about similar communities. A community can contain only one Related
Communities widget.
About this task
The Related Communities widget lets you link to other communities
that might be doing work that interests your community.
IBM® Connections already
recommends communities to you based on your community membership,
network connections, and tags. Other members of your community might
have a different set of community memberships, connections, and tags,
so they receive different recommendations. You might also learn about
an interesting community by another method. The Related Communities
widget helps you to make others aware of these communities that might
not be recommended to them or that they might have overlooked.
Tip: It is a good practice not to share a restricted community
as a related community. Only people that are already members can access
it.
Procedure
- On the community Overview page, click Add a
Community in the Related Communities area
of the page.
- Enter the URL for the community that you want to share.
- Enter the name of the community.
- Enter a meaningful description of the community. Think
about how the community relates to the current community and why other
members would be interested.
- Click Save.
Results
To edit or delete a related community, click
Related
Communities in the community navigation, and then click
More next
to the related community that you want to delete or edit. Select
Edit or
Remove
this community. Clicking
More also
displays recent updates for the community.
Another way to share
related communities with your team is to add the Related
Community button to your browser. Click Bookmarking
Tools in the footer of any page to learn how to install
and use the Related Community button. As you
discover other communities of interest, click the Related
Community button, and the Add to Related Community dialog
appears with the URL for the community already entered in the Community
URL field.