Building Online Community Forums for Effective Engagement
"Learn how to create and manage discussion forums to boost community interaction, gather feedback, and foster collaboration. Discover the benefits of forums, types, and tips for successful implementation."
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Developing Forums Supporting Sharing
2 What is a Forum? A discussion forum can be an effective engagement tool. It can build your online community by providing a place for your community to congregate, collaborate, discuss and share their ideas. It offers member benefits and can also provide your organization with insight that you can use to better serve your constituents. However, running a successful online forum involves much more than just setting up the technology. Creating real engagement in a new forum can take a lot of work, especially at the beginning as it may be difficult to get people to start posting and sharing their thoughts.
3 How can a forum help? A forum can benefit the community by providing a way to: connect and network with other stakeholders share information offer feedback or opinions ask questions
4 Types of Forum There are two types of forums: Moderated forums where posts are submitted through and approved by a moderator (or administrator) Non-moderated forums, where visitors post messages directly Obviously one requires much less admin time than the other. However, since this forum will bear your name, you ll want to have someone monitoring the forum regularly to remove inappropriate messages and ensure all is running smoothly.
5 Planning and Implementing your Forum Choose your technology Define policies (who, what, when, why, where?) Describe management Promote your forum Seed your forum with questions Promote your forum Stimulate and share questions Promote your forum
