Social business in context

Community pages are portal pages that are associated with a community in IBM Connections. Community pages let you place Connections portlets in the right WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager context.

You create the association between a page and a community by adding a community association to the page. You can also create communities automatically by adding a community association to a page template and then creating a page from that template.

Community pages establish a consistent page navigation and look-and-feel between WebSphere Portal and IBM Connections. Social information and data from IBM Connections is visible from the WebSphere Portal site. So your users have a move consistent experience.

Community pages let you associate relevant web content and portal pages with specific Connections communities. For example, you can associate a retirement community in Connections with a human resources web content in WebSphere Portal. You can create portal pages that use a template that is already associated with a particular community. You can also associate existing pages with a community from the website shelf.

The Connections portlets include:

Activities help site visitors collect, organize, share, and reuse work that is related to a project goal.
Blogs let users publish online personal journals.
Communities provide a space for visitors with common interests to interact and share resources.
Dogear and Bookmarks helps visitors save, organize, and share Internet and intranet bookmarks.
Profiles help visitors learn about other people on the site.

OpenID Authentication

OpenID authentication lets your site visitors authenticate with public social network credentials. For example, your site visitors could log in using their Facebook ID. Visitors have one less set of credentials to manage and remember.