Participating

The content in public and moderated communities is visible to any Lotus Connections user. However, in order to add content to a community, a user must join that community, and in the case of a moderated community, the user must be accepted by the community owner. After the user has become a member of the community, that community will be displayed on the user’s My Communities tab in the web interface.

One of the key concepts of communities is that the value of the community is measured by the value it brings to individual members, not to the organization or company hosting the Communities service. Community members are coequal with all other community members, having the same rights as all others to view or share information.