Communication with researchers is crucial and stimulating. Mica offers out of the box different communication means such as discussion groups (forums), news and events announcement, and blogs.

### News

This section is to announce important news.

### Events

This section is to announce upcoming events and keep a list of past events.

### Forums

This section is an online discussion board where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.

### Blogs

This section is for blogs i.e. a series of posts that are time stamped and are typically viewed by date as you would view a journal.