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Creating custom streams and blog streams

You can create your own customized streams if available in your community. This includes creating specific streams for following your favorite community blogs.

To create a custom stream:​

  1. On the News or Home page, click Create New Stream to the right of the streams.

    You can see a two-column layout with suggested stream content on the right.

  2. In Stream name, enter a name for this stream, for example, Water Cooler, New Products, or Team Activity.

  3. Drag and drop items from the Suggested People, Places, and Tags in the right column to the left column, or use the Search box to find specific items you want to follow in this stream. For more information about how to find and follow useful things, see Tips for finding things to follow or Following tags.

  4. If you want to receive a notification every time there is a new item in this stream, select Mobile or Email (or both) under Updates at the top of the page.

    • The option to change your email notifications preferences may be unavailable in your community. For more information, see Choosing between email and stream notifications.
    • We strongly recommend leaving Email cleared, which is the default; otherwise, your email notifications could get overwhelming pretty quickly.

  5. To save this new stream, click Done.

You can add to, edit, or delete this stream any time you want. For more information, see Updating custom streams and Editing custom streams.

To create a custom blog stream:​

Before you start adding blogs to a stream, you need to create your own custom stream as described above. It can be something like Awesome Blogs. Save the stream, but don't add anything to it yet.

  1. Navigate to a community blog you like. Go to Content > All > Blog Posts.

  2. When you find a post from a blog you like, click on it, then click the name of the blog post.

    This opens the home page of the blog.

  3. Click Follow, and select the blog you want to follow.

Every time the blog that you follow is updated or commented on, you can see a stream update and get an email (if you enabled email notification).

If you get too many emails, you can turn off email notifications:

  1. Go to your avatar > Preferences.
  2. Clear Email for the blogs where you don't want to receive notifications by email.

This option may be unavailable in your community. For more information, see Customizing notifications.

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