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by Valto

August 15th, 2008

As you can see on the main page on right, I have been asking from our Magazine Publishing Group members for their opinion for the forum type that I’m planning to setup.

The votes have been very close, I have also asked this question from another audience at LinkedIn Answers (not in vote results). Even that the votes are really close, there seems to be a slight lean towards a more social network type of forum or community.

While the more traditional forum would be more established as a software platform with various plug-in options etc. and therefore that could be good choice for now, I think that the social network type of platform will have greater appeal, particularly in future. Also it will most likely have an increasing momentum behind if from the developers and users in general.

In my email that I have sent to Magazine Publishing Group members few days back, I explained the options for the platforms, that were:

1. Social Network type of solution (like MySpace, facebook or LinkedIn type solution)

This will include forum, discussions, enhanced profile, blogs, subgroups etc. So it’s more comprehensive solution. But does it need to have these additional features?

For this I would use elgg software http://www.elgg.org/about.php

OR

2. More traditional type of discussion forum like http://www.phpbb.com/community/

This is widely used more traditional type of solution, that is “just a forum” So this does not have so much flexibility for other type of social networking among peers, but it’s good for basic forum.

For this I would use phpBB:
http://www.phpbb.com/about/?sid=bfffb7cdaf541f2fff42401781148c06

As you can see from the elgg website, the version 1.0 is set to be released on the 18th of this month and since that’s only few days from now, I have decided to wait for that release and not install any of the preversions.

Another thing is that I’m not exactly sure if my server host supports all the requirements for running elgg, so I will need to check that as well. If all goes well wit that, I also still want to do some testing first, so that will take few extra days until the site will be open.

I wanted to share this status update, so you all know I’m working actively on getting this setup.

If you have not voted yet, please do so on the front page. Also if you have any comments please let me know.

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.settingup new online forum*

by valto

August 6th, 2008

I have been looking for good online discussion forum that is centered around magazine publishing. I have been Googling, sending questions to LinkedIn answers and generally just been asking around. I have yet to find the kind of forum what I’m looking for.

Next, I reached out to our Magazine Publishing Group members in LinkedIn, asking if they would use this type of forum if that would be available and to me the response was pretty clear. From those that replied, all were indicating that they would. While I understand that the response numbers were not high, I think it still gives a good indication of interest toward this forum (knowing that this group is still very new but growing fast).

These two issues combined have convinced me to set up an Magazine Publishing Forum that is open to all professionals worldwide, related to Magazine Publishing. So yesterday I was spending my time looking and learning about what forum software to use and today I have spend many hours setting up the forum.

As soon as I have the forum set up and ready for members, I will post it here and send message to all of our Magazine Publishing Group Members.

It should not take too long anymore.

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