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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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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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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?

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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• 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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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?

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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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Share information about projects and tasks with your team.

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