Use announcements when you have news to broadcast to the entire community of members. Think of announcements as forum topics that are read-only, with no replies allowed. These new items display in the Announcements area of the Community portal and are delivered as emails to all community subscribers.
To create an announcement
1. Log on as a Community Administrator.
2. Open the community where you want to define an announcement by clicking the community name in the Community List.
3. Click Add an announcement.
4. Define the announcement.
5. Click OK.