Forums and Community Portals

[lankaentrepreneur]

Gone are those days when people spend majority of their time to talk about issues other than their family matters. But now nobody get time to describe their opinions on local issues as people live in a fast paced world. Here comes the importance of community portals and forums. They are some kind of web applications which let the users to speak out their concepts and opinions about particular subject. These are the online discussion locations where people build interest groups and social bonds for specific topics. Community portals and forums are the sophisticated forms of traditional bulletin board. These web applications manage user generated contents.

Forums and community portals let users to share their ideas with each other and also with outside community. People need a sounding board to express their ideas and opinions. These web applications arrange it for you. Some forums don’t ask registration to post the contents. But such practice may offer a level of anonymity to the users on sensitive issues. Forum moderators should give adequate care to avoid spamming. Add a Google search component to enhance the web search. This will induce the users to employ the site as their home page. Including web search component to the portal will let the users browse the web. Srilanka community portal and Lanka forum includes all necessary components should be included in such applications.


Embellish your portal with local weather news. Take advantage of free weather APIs to display local weather information. This will definitely enhance the user experience. If you could get RSS feeds to include on your portal, it would be more beneficial for you. Majority of people search web to get jobs or its references. If you could find job aggregators feeding jobs from several sites, it will enhance the user’s experience. Take advantage of Careerbuilder, Moster.com etc. Let your users submit articles on specific topics in portals. Such articles are published either on contributors or commentary segment. User will appreciate such practices. Include the local contact information of local business in the centralized location. Such practices will encourage the users to employ the site as their home page.

[krishna]

Those days people spend majority of their time to talk about issues other than their family matters. But now nobody get time to describe their opinions on local issues as people live in a fast paced world.

[krishna]

Majority of people search web to get jobs or its references. so we should think once how much useful for us.