I want to use this post to document and hopefully help others know where to post things in the Me2U environment.

Me2U is fundamentally a blogging environment, with capacity for responses to individual blog posts. But it also used to support groups, or as they are called in ELGG communities. The community itself has a blog, which is referred to as Community Forum. This is like a threaded discussion, but not threaded!  It lists forum topics in chronological order. Anyone can start a new topic.

Generally one uses their personal blog to make a personal entry, or to post something (like an assignment) that they do not mind sharing with others. One uses the community forums to begin a community wide discussion, answer a general question posed to the community or otherwise engage in community focused debate/dialogue. For example, I am posting this message in my personal blog,not in a community blog because I hope the content will be useful to members of multiple communities and I don't imagine that it will spark a lot of community based discussion. In our MDE 605 course, I imagine that students would post their own business plans in their personal blogs, while responding to Unit questions in the community blog.

Both communities and individuals can have bookmarks - annotated links to sites of interest. If the bookmark was directly related to the course, I would likely create it from within the community. If it was more directed to my personal interests, I would link it from my personal space. I would likely leave bookmarks free of restrictions on viewing in both cases, as they may be of interest to folks outside of a particular community.

I have set my "account settings" to push messages and responses to blogs I have posted or community events to my home emial, so I don't miss 'action'. Thus, I can usually keep track of postings by individuals in the 6095 community by clicking on "members blogs". I can review postings by folks outside of the 605 community by clicking on 'recent activity'. It all is a bit cumbersome, and perhaps not as comfortable or convenient as the group customization found in Moodle, but I hope that the move out of the closed "walled garden" of the LMS will pay the learning required to master this environment.