List of Internet forums An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.[1] Forums act as centralized locations for topical discussion. The Forum format is derived from BBS and Usenet but on a much larger scale and in more specialized ways.[2] The most notable and significant Internet forums communities have converged around topics ranging from medicine to technology, and vocations and hobbies. Forums are an element of social media technologies which take on many different forms including blogs, business networks, enterprise social networks, forums, microblogs, photo sharing, products/services review, social bookmarking, social gaming, social networks, video sharing and virtual worlds.[3][verification needed] 0–9[edit] A[edit] B[edit] C[edit] D[edit] E[edit] F[edit] G[edit] H[edit] I[edit] IGN Boards[11] J[edit] K[edit] L[edit] M[edit] N[edit] O[edit] P[edit] Q[edit] Quora R[edit] S[edit] T[edit] U[edit] V[edit] W[edit] X[edit] XDA-Developers Y[edit]
Free Speech in Online Communities: The Delusion of Entitlement Back in 2004 and 2005 when people asked me what I did for a living, I’d tell them I was a blogger. I got a lot of blank stares and invariably had to explain what a blog was. After that, people would lower their eyes, figuring that I was obviously on some ridiculous dead-end path with my “online diary.” In January 2006 I gave a 90-minute Power Point presentation to explain blogging to a group of about 60 speakers in Las Vegas. By that time I was earning a decent sustainable living from blogging (a few thousand dollars a month). I predicted that blogs would be everywhere within a few years. They believe me now. Fast forward a few years, and social media has exploded. Unfortunately there’s a downside to such a rapid technological and social change. The major mistake people make is that they assume they’re entitled to free speech when it comes to participating in online communities such as blogs, forums, Facebook, Twitter, and so on. Entitlement Free Speech and Contract Law Free Speech Online
Wiki Type of website that visitors can edit A wiki ( WIK-ee) is an online hypertext publication collaboratively edited and managed by its own audience, using a web browser. A typical wiki contains multiple pages for the subjects or scope of the project, and could be either open to the public or limited to use within an organization for maintaining its internal knowledge base. Wikis are enabled by wiki software, otherwise known as wiki engines. The online encyclopedia project, Wikipedia, is the most popular wiki-based website, and is one of the most widely viewed sites in the world, having been ranked in the top twenty since 2007.[3] Wikipedia is not a single wiki but rather a collection of hundreds of wikis, with each one pertaining to a specific language. Characteristics In their book The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web, Ward Cunningham and co-author Bo Leuf described the essence of the Wiki concept:[8][9][page needed] Editing Source editing Layout consistency Basic syntax Visual editing
Internet Marketing Forum Directory Important! NEW! Three FREE valuable forum resource downloads, including the new IM4Newbies Ultimate Forum List rebrandable ebook! I did NOT painstakingly create and compile this directory to have it used as a SPAM post tool! Each forum has it's own rules, and you're expected to abide by them. Proper use of this directory can greatly accelerate the self branding process, increase exposure, traffic ... and sales, by providing a short cut to establishing yourself as a knowledgeable and respected member of the forums you choose to participate in ... Use it to your advantage! Why Internet Marketing 'related' forums? In my own honest opinion ... even if you intend on farming out site design, search engine optimization, and other tasks essential to the Online merchant ... Much Success, Mike Merz Internet Marketing For Newbies LLC Maximize Your Overall Forum Participation, With The IM4Newbies Internet Marketing Forum Directory ...
Effective Online Forum Usage by Steve Pavlina What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. - Herbert Simon Online forums, message boards, and newsgroups are now ubiquitous. These powerful communication tools offer many strong benefits. However, forum participation can also become a destructive addiction, where the benefits are overshadowed by negative side effects. Here are some potential benefits of regular online forum participation: Intellectual exchange Learning new ideas and refining old ones Enjoying community membership Influencing the forum's evolution Contributing to others Making new friends and contacts New business leads Keeping up with current events Learning about new opportunities Here are some potential negative effects of excessive forum usage: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Weblog A blog (a truncation of the expression web log)[1] is a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order (the most recent post appears first). Until 2009 blogs were usually the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often covered a single subject. More recently "multi-author blogs" (MABs) have developed, with posts written by large numbers of authors and professionally edited. MABs from newspapers, other media outlets, universities, think tanks, advocacy groups and similar institutions account for an increasing quantity of blog traffic. The emergence and growth of blogs in the late 1990s coincided with the advent of web publishing tools that facilitated the posting of content by non-technical users. History Origins The modern blog evolved from the online diary, where people would keep a running account of their personal lives. Rise in popularity Types
Web Hosting Talk - The largest, most influential web hosting community on the Internet Why I Shut Down the Forums In this post I’ll share more details about the reasons I decided to shut down the discussion forums on this site. As I stated in my previous post, I closed them on Dec 26th. The forum archives are still online, and you can search them too. Forum vs. Blog First, let’s talk data. After more than 5 years online, the forums had a total of 48,465 registered members. That may sound like a large community to some people, but the total number of forum members after 5 years online was still less than one day’s traffic to my blog. Out of all those members, less than 10,000 of them posted more than 5 messages total, so most of them didn’t participate much at all. On any given day, however, only about 400 members would visit the forums, although many of them would visit multiple times per day. The truth is that the vast majority of visitors to my blog simply aren’t interested in our discussion forums. How did the forums become popular in the first place? What about all the content in the forums?
Social bookmarking Common features[edit] In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine. Many social bookmarking services provide web feeds for their lists of bookmarks, including lists organized by tags. As these services have matured and grown more popular, they have added extra features such as ratings and comments on bookmarks, the ability to import and export bookmarks from browsers, emailing of bookmarks, web annotation, and groups or other social network features.[4] History[edit] A user page on del.icio.us in May 2004, displaying bookmarks with tags. Folksonomy[edit] Uses[edit] Enterprise bookmarking[edit] Libraries[edit] Education[edit]
Digital Point Forum Social network Social networks and the analysis of them is an inherently interdisciplinary academic field which emerged from social psychology, sociology, statistics, and graph theory. Georg Simmel authored early structural theories in sociology emphasizing the dynamics of triads and "web of group affiliations."[2] Jacob Moreno is credited with developing the first sociograms in the 1930s to study interpersonal relationships. These approaches were mathematically formalized in the 1950s and theories and methods of social networks became pervasive in the social and behavioral sciences by the 1980s.[1][3] Social network analysis is now one of the major paradigms in contemporary sociology, and is also employed in a number of other social and formal sciences. Overview[edit] History[edit] In the late 1890s, both Émile Durkheim and Ferdinand Tönnies foreshadowed the idea of social networks in their theories and research of social groups. Levels of analysis[edit] Micro level[edit] Meso level[edit] Community[edit]
List of Internet forums Wikipedia list article An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.[1] Forums act as centralized locations for topical discussion. The Forum format is derived from BBS and Usenet.[2] The most notable and significant Internet forums communities have converged around topics ranging from medicine to technology, and vocations and hobbies. Forums are an element of social media technologies which take on many different forms including blogs, business networks, enterprise social networks, forums, microblogs, photo sharing, products/services review, social bookmarking, social gaming, social networks, video sharing and virtual worlds.[3][verification needed] IGN Boards[11] Quora XDA-Developers Zhihu See also Further reading References