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• Log the outline of an upcoming meeting or phone conference, and give the address out to participants.
• Make links out to separate pages detailing issues as needed.
• Update the agenda before the meeting, or on the fly during the meeting as new discussion points come up.

...a Workspace can also help you with project plans...

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In the background, Socialtext formats pages with a few extra symbols, like brackets and asterisks, in the text. For the most part, when editing you can ignore this. However, you may come across these symbols, for example, while browsing through the page revision history. Additionally, you can use the symbols while editing in Advanced mode.

To learn how to use the symbols, when you're editing a page in Advanced mode, click the "Edit tips" link at the top.

How do I make links?

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Making links in Socialtext is very simple.

To add a link to a page in the workspace, first double-click to enter editing mode. Alternatively, click the Edit button.

Type the name of the page you want to link to, and turn it into a link simply by selecting it and clicking on in the toolbar.

If you make a link to a page that doesn't exist yet, your link will appear with a dotted underline. When you click on the link, the page will be created.

How do I make a new page?

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Again, you're looking at a page in a Socialtext Workspace. It provides a way to organize information and collaborate on the web.

What else can be in a workspace? Perhaps another way people keep track of things, say a to-do list.

Pages can contain links, as in the case of the words "Marketing Proposal" above.

A workspace can also hold documents that people are working on...

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Hi! This quick tour will help you get acquainted with your Socialtext Workspace. It's easy to do. After you've read each page, just click on the blue underlined link at the bottom to go to the next page -- sort of like turning the page in a book.

A Socialtext Workspace is a way to work together on the web that's fast and fun.

It's a flexible way for you and your team to organize information.

Right now, the information you're looking at is a few paragraphs of text, like you could read in a newspaper or a book.

What else is here?

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

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Share information about projects and tasks with your team.

... you can use pages in a Workspace to build collections of pages...

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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...