If the top summit includes a very large group of users who need their own private work area, then a cascaded summit can serve this purpose. (Small groups can create a team area, which is described later in this section.) For example, the top summit can serve every employee in a company, and cascaded summits can serve each department: Engineering Department, Human Resources Department, Marketing Department, and so on.

Before users can create newspapers, the Forum administrator needs to do configuration work to enable these forums. Also, your server machine must have access to the Internet and to news sources. If you are not able to create or use newspapers or the MyNews feature, check with your Forum administrator to see if newspapers are enabled for this installation of Forum.

There are two ways to track activity in other forums you use most often. You can view the "Notifications" folder in the MyNews section of the Tracker. You can also specify the name and URL a particular forum you want to track, and the Tracker keeps a running total of all of the new and modified entries included in that forum since you last used it.

The Forum administrator can prevent the creation and use of personal calendars and docshares. Also, you cannot create MyNews folders until the administrator configures the newspaper forums. If you are not able to create and use these forums, contact your system administrator for more information.

Teams can be created and disbanded quickly. All team members have the ability to administer the team area by changing team properties (adding a team member, removing a team member, changing the background color of the pages, and so forth).