Go Mobile

Being away from a browser doesn't mean losing your connection to what's going on in the community. If your community supports it, you can use email or your iPhone to stay on top of what's going on and stay involved.

Reply by email. If you've chosen to receive email notifications for a discussion (such as when you post one yourself), you'll get an email when someone posts a reply to it. Sometimes you're going to want to follow up right away with your own reply. You can do that merely by replying to the notification email, typing your own reply to the discussion.

Open a discussion notification email.
Click Reply to begin a reply to the notification.
Type your response to the message you were notified about. Take care not to change what's in the subject, especially if there's a special code that looks like this: [Xxxxx-xxx-xxxx]. If you change the code, your reply won't go to the right place in the community.
When you've finished your reply, click Send to post it.

It can be that easy to reply to discussions. And if your community supports it, you can reply to other kinds of content as well: comments on documents and blog posts, for example.

Create content by email. You might even be able to post new content using email. You get set up for this by adding email addresses for the places you might want to post content to -- spaces or social groups you're in a lot, projects, or your own blog, for example.

You can try this out easily by creating your first emailed content as a private document.

Using your browser, go to your profile by clicking Your Stuff, then Profile.
In the Action list, click Create content by email.
In the Create By Email dialog box, select the Create a new document in Your Documents by email check box.
Click the Download vCards button.
When you're prompted, save the vCard (.vcf file) to your computer.
After you've downloaded the vCard file, click Done.
In your email or address book program, use the vCard you downloaded to add its email address as a contact. For example, in Microsoft Outlook you can drag the vCard to your Contacts folder. On a Macintosh, you can double-click the vCard to add it to your address book.
In your email application, start a new message you'll send to the address you just added.
In the email's subject, type the title you want your content to have.
In the body of the email, type the main part of the content.
Send the email.
View the document you just created by going to the community, click Your Stuff, then click Documents. Look for the document you just created listed there.

Put the community in the palm of your hand. To get really mobile, you'll want to get the iPhone application. It gives you access to the community wherever you go. Need to get something sent out right away? You needn't bother to open your laptop.

Tap Yours to see the your content.
Tap Discussions to view your discussion threads and replies. Notice that the list is the same sort of stuff you'd see in your list of discussions by viewing it through a browser.
Tap an item to see the thread. Scroll to take a look at the replies.
Tap the forward/reply button in the upper right corner to forward the thread to someone who needs to be in the loop.