Creating content

Once you have created a group,  a new block should be present on your group pages with entries like 'Create Blog entry',  'Create Poll', etc.  Clicking on any of these links will take you to a content creation form for the indicated content type.

Understanding Content Types in Drupal Commons

Groups

• Almost everything happens inside a group of some kind
• Groups may be actual groups that exist somewhere or simply a theme or topic
• Registered members of the site can join groups and contribute content to that group
• Groups allow content of the following kinds to be added within the group

Blog posts

• Blogs are "web logs," that is: date-ordered journals
• Blogs are used to record content that will quickly be out of date
• Blog posts tend to be short, pithy, inspirational or explorative

Documents

• Documents are used to store useful information, in an orderly manner
• Documents easily incorporate attachments of the most common file-types
• A collection of documents can provide a useful repository for a community-group

Discussions

• Discussions provide an interactive forum for online text-based discussions
• Discussions facilitate a large number of people commenting freely on a given topic

Wikis

• Wikis allow a large number of contributors to interactively author and edit a single document (a 'wiki')
• For example, each article on Wikipedia is a wiki
• Wiki's are particularly useful when a group is trying to pioneer a new idea or to define a new concept

Polls

• Polls provide a quick way of surveying opinions from site members or visitors
• Poll authors can decide how long the survey is available
• Voters see a percentage summary of how the vote is progressing

Events

• Events are date-organised content and appear on a group calendar
• Events can be on a single day, or spread over a longer period

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