Using the Encyclopedia of Life

Creating a Community

About Communities

You can create a community space on EOL to collaboratively manage or communicate about one or more of your EOL Collections. Collections allow you to organize lists of species, information, media, maps, and sounds - anything of interest to you from the Encyclopedia of Life- in a virtual collection, that you can annotate and share.

Creating a CommunityOnce way you can share a collection with others by creating a Community. You can do this by clicking on the create community button.

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Editing Your CommunityGive your community a name, description and invite other EOL members to join. You can add other collections to your community as well. Therefore, the name of your community does not have to match the name of the collection is was created around.

Click here to create your community

Enter in a name and description for your

community

Invite other EOL users to join your community

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Inviting MembersWhen you invite members to join your EOL Community, they will receive a message in their EOL Watch List Newsfeed with a link. Once they join, you will have the chance to “promote” them to become Managers of your EOL Community. You can also let people know the web address for your community (e.g., http://eol.org/communities/63) and they can join by clicking on Join this community.

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Join a CommunityTo join a community, click on the “Join this community” button.

Once you have joined you will see a yellow confirmation message. The community you have joined will also appear in your Watch List.

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Once you have joined you will see a yellow confirmation message. The community you have joined will also appear in your Watch List.

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Sharing Collection ManagementAll users on EOL will be able to join your community, but only those members to whom you grant "manager role " status will be allowed to edit the community itself or the collection associated with your community.

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Community NewsfeedThe newsfeed allows members of the community to communicate with each other and reports changes to collections items within the community. You will be notified of any activity via email. You can edit your email settings to choose when you receive alerts.

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How do I access my Communities?

To access a list of your EOL Collections and EOL Communities you belong to, visit your EOL Profile and click the either the collections or communities tab.

Click to view your collections and communities

Click here on any EOL page to go to your profile

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Questions?

If you have any problems or questions, please email us at:

education@eol.org

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