Frequently Asked Questions

1.  What are the advantages of joining a forum?

Forums can be very engaging as they let a person interact with a large number of people instead of just one or two persons.  This produces the feeling of community and kinship with other forum members.  Forums also have their use for the professional side specifically for those that target a specific community such as forums for the marketing community, for the writing community and many others.

2.  What is the main purpose of forums?

Forums are specifically intended to provide an area for posting questions and comments and to hold discussions with other members.  Its underlying purpose is to increase the interactivity and to support knowledge sharing goals.

3.  What is responsible for the success of any forum?

Generally, the success of online discussion forums has been a “hit and miss” thing.  However, the two critical success factors appears to be the clear purpose of the staff to use the discussion forums and the sense of community among users of the forums that gives participants the confidence to post entries.