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You're now ready to use your workspace! Now, think about how you want to use it for you and your workgroup, and start creating and editing pages.

To start, you might want to create a personal page for yourself. Just visit the dashboard and click the New Page button. Or, you can start with any other page you'd like.

For more ideas, check out the collection of Best Practices over at the Socialtext Customer Exchange.

Enjoy!

The Socialtext Crew

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• "Home" at the top left sends you to the dashboard or to the top page.

• Click links to browse around through the pages.

• Click "What's new" right next to "Quick jump" to see what's new and what has recently changed in the space.

• Search from the top left to find pages with specific words in them.

Let's look at some more advanced getting around

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Here's an example of what a conversation page might look like...

Follow us to see how you can use workspace pages for meeting agendas...

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Here are links to some of the pages in this workspace.

Now that I know about some of the things I can use a Workspace for, how do I find my way around?

This is a wiki. It has lots of pages that you can write on. Click on links to explore, and click Home to come back.

If you'd like an introductory tour of Socialtext, start here.

The Announcements and Links page is the page that everyone on your team will see on their Dashboard. Here you can post announcements, leave notes, and link to useful resources.

This is a list of the pages in the Socialtext Workspace Tour. Click the first one to start the tour, or you can jump into the middle by clicking on one of the other links.

1. Start here
2. What else is here?
3. Documents that people are working on
4. Conversations
5. Meeting agendas
6. Project plans
7. Lists of pages
8. How do I find my way around?
9. Advanced getting around
10. Can I change something?
11. What if I make a mistake?
12. What's the funny punctuation?
13. How do I make links?
14. How do I make a new page?
15. Congratulations! You know how to use a workspace

Here's the 2-minute basic intro:

1. Edit this Page. Then type as you like.
2. You can't do any permanent damage. See "Revisions" to see revision history for a page and undo changes if needed
3. See "Recent Changes" to see what people have been adding lately
4. Create a new page by putting a page name in [square brackets] (creates a new page in this wiki site), like this: page name
5. Create a hyperlink (an external link) by placing an existing URL in <angle brackets>, like this: http://www.example.com/

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Don't worry, you can't do any permanent damage.

Click on REVISIONS to see previous versions of a page. You can always go back to an earlier version. And you can see who changed each version of the page, and when.

Go ahead and try it here. Edit this page, save it, then click on REVISIONS

So, What's the funny punctuation?