Creating a community site

With SharePoint 2013, Microsoft has made huge advances in supporting social…computing and social networking around organizations.…Communities are a new construct in SharePoint 2013, in the past we've supported…groups, administrators, members, visitors, but communities are somewhat…different than all of those things.…There are two new site templates that are used with communities;…one is called the community site, the other is the community portal.…

But before we begin looking at what those things do, let's talk about what this…thing called community actually is.…Electronic communities are organized social spaces or organized discussion…spaces and they have attributes that other electronic groups don't necessarily have.…One is that community members can post and reply, but that's true with email too.…What makes a community different is that visitors can actually view those…discussions and request membership.…

So if we were thinking about an email distribution list for example, all of…the community members can post and reply, but it's not transparent to the rest of the world.…