Creating Content

Choose a content type based on your collaborative goals.

Click Create to draft a discussion, document, blog post, or other type of content in Jive. For discussions and documents, you'll need to associate the new discussion or document with a space or group, for example, the discussion "Where should we have the company party?" would probably go in the HR or Water Cooler space. Most collaborative activity takes place in discussions and documents. Blog posts are typically used for viewpoint essays and other long-form communications that don't require collaboration. For a more detailed analysis of the differences between these types of content, see What's the difference between a document, a blog post, and a discussion?.

Private and Public Content

By default, content you create is public in the community and searchable. The power of Jive is that everyone in the community can benefit from shared and collaborative content. In some cases, you may want to limit who sees content and who can collaborate on it. For more information about deciding who can see and collaborate on your documents, see Getting more out of documents. For more information about private discussions, see Getting more out of discussions and questions.

Monitoring Your Content

You'll automatically track all content that you create, so you'll receive an update in your Communications stream whenever anyone responds to your content or, if it's a document, changes it. You can also delete any comments on your content, as well as remove the content entirely.