A comment by Artie on my last post reminded me that I’ve yet to write a post about Discussion Forums for our Facilitating Online Communities course. Essentially we are to locate a forum somewhere on the web, cite it in our blogs, and use the example to discuss the concepts of facilitation and communities with regards to forums.
Background
Discussion Forums are centralised spaces where groups or communities can house their conversations. While forums come in many different forms, communication is typically done via multiple, concurrent, threaded conversations. The …

I read a lot of different blogs – a whole lot of them in fact.  I also comment on many of them.  However I’ve found that in doing this it’s exceptionally difficult to remember what you said where, and to whom.  Some times I’ll bookmark a specific post with the intent of returning later to follow up on the discussion, but this rarely happens in practice.
With this in mind I’ve just added the Subscribe to Comments plugin to this blog.  Now when you visit the comment area of a specific …