1. A method comprising, by one or more computer systems: receiving information from a user in a collaboration network, the information comprising: a unit of content; a title for the unit of content; an indication of one or more entities in the collaboration network allowed to access the unit of content; and for each of the entities in the collaboration network allowed to access the unit of content, an indication of a selection of access rights for the respective entity of one or more of view, comment, edit, or share; based at least in part on the indication of the selection of one or more of view, comment, edit, or share for at least one of the one or more entities in the collaboration network allowed to access the unit of content, selecting a format for presentation of the unit of content to be one of a wiki format, a blog format, a discussion forum format, or an email format; publishing the unit of content and the title for the unit of content to the collaboration network in the selected format and according to the information; and wherein the one or more entities comprise one or more other users or one or more communities of other users; and wherein the format is selected to be: the wiki format based on the indication of the selection of each and every one of view, comment, edit, and share, and not based on an indication of a selection of the wiki format, for the at least one of the one or more entities in the collaboration network allowed to access the unit of content; the blog format based on the indication of the selection of each and every one of view, comment, and share, and an indication of not selecting edit, and not based on an indication of a selection of the blog format, for the at least one of the one or more entities in the collaboration network allowed to access the unit of content; or the discussion forum format based on the indication of the selection of each and every one of view and comment, and an indication of not selecting each of edit and share, and not based on an indication of a selection of the discussion forum format, for the at least one of the one or more entities in the collaboration network allowed to access the unit of content.