A full list of registered users is available from the "people" section, accessible from the "Browse" menu.

There you can search for a user’s profile by name, company, occupation, or how recently they have joined. Once you find a profile, it can be used to email or to subscribe to notifications whenever the user is active within the community.

If you are looking for groups rather than individuals, use the browse menu to navigate to the "groups" section, where they can be searched and contacted.

Use the ‘Discussion’ link on the "New" menu to create a new discussion. You will first be prompted to decide where in the community you want to create this new discussion.

You can also create a new discussion from the actions block on the "Overview" or "Discussions" tab of a community.

It is important to post to discussions appropriately.

When replying to the general topic of a discussion use the ‘Reply to original post’ link at the bottom. Otherwise respond to particular posts by clicking their respective ‘Reply’ buttons. This will insure that discussions are transcribed in a way that makes the overall flow of conversation clear and understandable.

See the "What is the most effective way to participate in discussions?" FAQ for about online discussion best practices.

Whether editing a document, discussion post, blog entry or other text contribution the following word processing features are available to you. Keep in mind that all text entries are translated and displayed in your web browser as HTML, which means that formatting may not be as easily controlled as it is in traditional word processing programs. For this reason, try to keep image and video sizes to a minimum.

Uploaded files and wiki documents created here in the community are both created and accessed under the title of ‘Documents’. You can create or upload a document from "New" menu or links from the Documents section of a community area as shown here.

It is possible to embed both external and internal weblinks into text posts and documents. The link button available from the word processing tool bar will bring up the following screen. The first tab, ‘Web Address’ can accept a simple URL link, or the tab shown, ‘All Content’ helps you find and link to content found here in the community.

Documents shared to the site can be locked down so that only yourself or specified individuals can edit or comment upon them. If you have a collection of documents to share in this way, it may be easier to first create a project, share documents to the project, and then change the project permissions to control who has access to them.

To be updated on any changes made to a piece of content in the community, you can subscribe to email notifications. When viewing the content, click "Receive email notifications" from the Actions block.

From another user’s profile page you can browse their contributions from their ‘Stuff’ menu, their contacts from their ‘Friends’ menu, and can also subscribe to email or RSS notifications regarding their community activity as shown.

Use a projects ‘Actions’ menu to create new tasks. Once created they will appear as shown, in the task list and on the schedule according to their due dates.

Use a projects ‘Actions’ menu to create new checkpoints (also known as milestones). Once created they will appear as shown, on a time-line as well as on the project calendar, according to date that they are expected to occur.