Why no mention of forum or groups in community tools. Do they have a role?

Posted over 2 years ago by TROVUS
06/11/2007

Nick, thanks for your question from our Cisco seminar.  It is a great question and a well observed point.  The simple answer is that we focus on the creation of niche groups on the web and forums simply demand volume that the niche sites do not have.  There is nothing worse that going to a site where the forum is stale and empty and the tumbleweed is visably rolling through. For us, so much of what a forum offers can be delivered by a well constructured blog (in our case the cobblers children rule applies).  A forum comes into its...