Blogs by place
The place where the blog lives determines how you can manage permissions for the blog and how you configure its settings.
A blog can live in one of several different places, such as the system place, a social group, or a personal container. In the sections below you can find the descriptions of each type of blog.
System blog
- Scope: Is not associated with any particular space or person.
- Creating: Administrators can create blogs and assign people as authors so they can post to it.
- Permissions: Administrators can set specific permissions, such as for creating and viewing system blogs.
- Management: Blog authors and administrators can manage the blog.
- System-wide settings: Settings are shared by all blogs.
Personal blog
- Scope: Associated with a particular user, who is its owner. A user can have only one personal blog.
- Creating: Administrators can create a personal blog for a user from the Admin Console. A person who has been assigned permission to do so can also create their blog in the community. Only the blog's owner can post to their personal blog.
- Permissions: Administrators set up the ability to create personal blogs.
- Management: The blog's author manages the blog.
- System-wide settings: Settings are shared by all blogs.
Space blog
- Scope: Associated with a particular space. A space can have only one blog.
- Creating: A person with permission to administer a space can create and manage a blog there.
- Permissions: Administrators can set fine-grained access for a space's blog.
- Management: Blog authors and space administrators can manage the blog.
- System-wide settings: Settings are shared by all blogs.
Project blog
- Scope: Associated with a particular project (which is contained by another place).
- Creating: Settings are inherited from the space that contains the project.
- Permissions: Settings are inherited from the space that contains the project.
- Management: Settings are inherited from the space that contains the project.
- System-wide settings: Settings are shared by all blogs.
Social group blog
- Scope: Associated with a social group.
- Creating: A person with permission to administer a social group can create a blog there. Every member of the social group has full access to the blog's features except blog management.
- Permissions: Permissions are not editable. They provide full access to the blog for every member of the group.
- Management: Group administrators can manage the blog.
- System-wide settings: Settings are shared by all blogs.