Where can I find and put content?

When you create new piece of content, including a discussion or document or video, you're prompted to choose a place for it. And when you browse or search for content, you can look specifically in certain places. Each of the places you'll see in the community -- including spaces, projects, and groups -- has a different purpose.

Shortcuts

Social groups. Discussions. Projects. Documents. Spaces. Blog posts.

You can make quite a few things and you can put them in quite a few places. Fortunately, you'll find a few ways to make getting to what you want -- and what you want to create -- a little easier. When you customize your home page, for example, you can pick widgets specifically for the ways you like to browse, and the kinds of things you tend to look for.

Places widget. Use the Places widget to give you a list of places in the community. This includes spaces, projects, and groups. You can even use the widget to search for a place. It doesn't show you what's in the place, but gives you a handy way to browse the list.
Place-specific widgets. The Spaces, Your Groups and Your Projects widgets don't just list the places -- they also give information about what's going on inside them.
Content-specific widgets. There's a separate widget for most kinds of content in the community. Use them to get snapshots of what's most recent or popular.
Search results filtering. When you search, you can filter the results according to the kind of content it is, by the place it might be in, or the person who authored it.

Keep in mind that while you put most things in a place when you create them, you don't have to go to that place to view them later. Most of the things you can create are also visible (at least, in lists) in widgets you put on your personalized home page. When you personalize your home page, look for widgets that list the content you're more interested in keep track of. See How can I personalize my view of content? for more information.

Where to put that

Here's a list of the places you might find in your community (not every community has all of them). Each space, project, or group might allow only certain kinds of content -- it all depends on how the place is set up.

Space -- You'll probably find that spaces are arranged hierarchically, with some spaces containing other spaces. Spaces usually represent some ongoing or organizational concern -- a department in a company, for example, or a product. As a result, spaces are often created with some planned structure in mind and tend to stick around for quite a long time.
Project -- Projects usually represent something that's time-based -- something with a deadline. They have tasks and milestones, for example. In a project, you can put the kinds of content allowed by the place that contains the project. For example, if the space that contains a project doesn't allow discussions, then you can't put discussions in the project either. A project can also have its own blog.
Social group -- Social groups usually spring up and evolve around people's shared interests. They grow and diminish with that interest. You might need to be a member of a social group in order to put stuff there (it depends on the group).
Your Place -- Okay, so there isn't really a "your place." Rather, it's a way to refer to where things go when you create something that's just for you and isn't in another place. So when you create a discussion or a document, for example, you can say that you want it to go in "your documents" or that you want to create a "private discussion." When you do, you'll be able to get to it later on your profile.

The following table lists kinds of content and describes where you might be able to put them when you create them. When you're creating (or looking for) new content, remember that a place defines its own rules for what can go in it. So you might be able to create a document in one place, but not in another.

Kind of Content	Places
Blog post	You can post to any existing blog that, well, you're allowed to post to. Blog posts are a little different from other kinds of content. A blog post is always associated with a particular blog, and a blog is usually in a particular place already. That place could be a space or a social group, for example. Or a blog could be your personal blog (which is an exception in that it doesn't really live anywhere in a particular place). In other words, when you create a new blog post and choose a place to put it in, you're actually choosing the blog that's in that place. (Actually, this is one of those cases where doing it is much easier than understanding it. You'll see.)
Bookmark	When you create a bookmark, it doesn't really go anywhere in particular.
Discussion	You can post discussions in spaces, projects, and social groups. You can also make private discussions.
Document	You can create a document in spaces, projects, and social groups. You can also create a document that lives in "your place."
Task	Tasks typically go in projects, but you can also create personal tasks that don't.
Video	Videos you create can go in spaces, projects, and social groups. You can also put a new video in "your place."