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Does Conflict in Community helps in bringing traffic?

Conflict can bring in traffic. If you manage the conflict and ensure that your community posts fairly present both sides.

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How to effectively use Facebook to make your forum visible?

I know facebook and other social networking sites are good to get website traffic but i don’t know how.

Ok so i have an account on facebook, uploaded a few pics and have plastered by websites address where ever i can. Now what?

How does it actually work to get traffic?

I crossed one of the forum post with these questions, and thought to highlight how one can use Facebook to effectively put in use to promote your forums.

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Successful Forum Community in five simple To-Do’s

1. Never let any post go un-answered.
2. Always involve people in the introduction. Not just ‘welcome to website’, but trying to sincerely know your members. If the user has obscure name jps_30, then asking them their full name is a good idea. Also try to remember the user real name and try to address in the post, by his real name, rather than aka.
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Legal issues in running a community website

Social Networking websites have the following features which makes them different from other websites.

  • User generated Content
  • Sharing of Personal Information by users
  • Unavoidable sharing of Copyrighted materials.
  • Diversified users from across the globe
  • To start with remember that ‘you are responsible for what you post and not what others post’ even in your own website. Read the rest of this entry »

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    How important are blogs in your Forum?

    vBulletin and Invision Power Board bout provide integrated blogging for your forum users. Providing blog has become a matter of debate and many forum owners never had success with blogging on their community sites. Does that mean blogging should not be a part of Forum Social Network? If you ask me I would say without a blog, your forum is in-complete.
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