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Collaborating through discussion boards

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Collaborating through discussion boards

A discussion board is a place to share information and discuss topics with other people in your document workspace. Imagine a team where members are geographically dispersed across the country. Discussion boards like chat rooms allow users, no matter where they are located, to collaborate online, create, and reply to discussion topics. Let's take a look here in this workspace. We can see here, much like calendar, that the team discussion is not displayed here by default. You have to click on the link located right under Discussions. Here we see a blank list, and we're free to add a discussion topic. So we'll go here to add new discussion. In the window, we can populate a subject and body text. So for the subject, I'm going to type in Brochure Back Page, and for the body I'm going to ask the question. What should we put on the back page and from there Save. So now that this topic has been posted in the discussion board, members of the team are free to respond. So should one of them…

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