Archive for July, 2008

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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Forum Friends – Are they for real?

Gone are the days when people remained anonymous and chatted to glory only to fool or end up getting cheated. Here are forum communities which are making profound effect over friendship paradigm. I happen to analyze factors and reason for their success and how strong is the bonding make online.
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What is your size of Internal Discussions?

When I create a new community, the first advice I give to forum admins is to create internal area of discussions for users before they actually create public area.

The internal area should define your vision, roles of moderators, conflict resolutions escalation matrix, contact details, Moderated Post discussions, and General discussions.

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