A Working Group is a collaborative area run by members of UCSRT's Dialogues. Anyone may create a working group for any topic related to sexuality research and training, the UCSRT, or its mission. Working groups do not need to be approved by the site administrator: you can create a working group and get started using it immediately.

Working groups offer the following features:

Easy creation - Get started fast with a working group of your own. With UCSRT's Dialogues, creating a working group is easy.

Group discussions - Working groups may contains their own blog and discussion forum, like a miniaturized version of Dialogues's Blogs & Talk. Group managers have both fine-grained and high-level control over who can read, comment, and post to the blog, and read and post to the discussion forum. Don't want a blog or discussion forum? It's one click to turn them off.

Shared Files and Bookmarks - Share and describe files and bookmarks through your working group. Access controls let you choose who can add files or bookmarks, and who can view shared files and bookmarks. Files are fully versioned, so you can access older versions and see a message describing the changes made between versions.

Low administrative overhead - Managing a working group is easy and requires almost no time. Simple, high-level visibility, membership, and access controls let you choose your management style: whether you want a completely open group or a carefully controlled one. Our philosophy is simple: Let you use Dialogues to do your work, not make you do work to use Dialogues.

Flexible membership control - The group manager decides who can join the working group. Membership in your working group can be as permissive or strict as you want it.

Please see "Frequently Asked Questions" in the Help section.