Telligent Enterprise ships with four application types:  

Name Description Typical uses
Blogs Short name for weblog. Location for an author or more than one author to write commentary on a specific topic or area of expertise. Readers of the content can typically comment on the content. Personal commentary, description of newsworthy or interesting events, or showcasing a set files (such as  graphics and/or videos).
Forums Discussion and/or question and answer area with threads that contain posts that are either replies, suggested answers or verified answers. Discussions among group members, bug reporting.
Media galleries Collection of files available for download and commenting. Image gallery, video demos, presentations, reporting spreadsheets.
Wikis Collection of pages that allow community members to edit the content and/or comment on the content. Revision history is captured and comparisons can be made between revisions. Help documentation, specifications and other less temporal or non-temporal content.

These applications can only exist within a group. We recommend that you DO NOT create applications under the Site Root group to ensure that community members can navigate easily to all applications and the content within those application include the correct permissions.

When you Create a group, we create one of the above application types automatically. You can then remove any of these applications or add additional applications of the above types as necessary through group management.