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Resources for Discussion Forums
Discussion Forums are very popular, as not only are they useful
(and sometimes fun), but they encourage people to regularly
visit your web site.
Here are some resources to help you set up your own discussion forum:
- ASP Discussion Forum Scripts
ASP scripts for running Discussion Forums. Requires a web host that supports ASP.
- CGI Discussion Forum Scripts
CGI and Perl scripts for running Discussion Forums. Requires a web host that supports CGI.
- PHP Discussion Forum Scripts
PHP scripts for running Discussion Forums. Requires a web host that supports PHP.
- Remotely Hosted Discussion Forum Services
Remotely hosted Discussion Forum services. These may be a good choice if your host does not support ASP, CGI or PHP.
- CBRocket
CBRocket is our company's script. It is primarily about allowing your visitors to search
ClickBank without leaving your
web site. However, it also allows you to show ads which are targeted based
on the page's <TITLE> tag. As most discussion boards will place the
subject of a post in this tag, it means that you can easily show ads which
(usually) tie-in with the subject's of people's posts.
Here are some books from Amazon:
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By Patrick O'Keefe
Brand: AMACOM
Released: 2008-04-28
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Every day, millions of users log on to their favorite online forums, communities and social spaces and interact with others to get advice and discuss everything from the latest news and trends to their hobbies and professions to whatever else strikes their fancy. Administrators have to lead these communities, deal with difficult users, manage staff members and make tough decisions.
Legal constraints, spammers and technical issues can turn the excitement of running an online community into chaos. With the right guidance, however, running forums can be an enjoyable and rewarding experience. My name is Patrick O'Keefe and I own the iFroggy Network. I've spent years developing and managing online communities. In this book, I share my experiences in a straight forward, honest fashion and show you how to make the right decisions about every aspect of your forums, including:
- Creating an organizational structure
- Designing and launching your community
- Deciding on user options like avatars and private messaging
- Promoting and attracting members
- Utilizing technology to your benefit
- Developing and enforcing guidelines
- Choosing and managing moderators
- Shutting down users who disrupt and harm the community
- Involving your users and keeping the site interesting and inviting
- Generating revenue
What is talked about in this book is not hypothetical - it consists of in use, battle-tested theories and solutions, making it so that when you must deal with these issues on your forums, you will be better equipped. Real life examples are cited throughout, including the actual user guidelines, staff member guidelines and more, from real communities.
This is a book for both new administrators and experienced ones. If you are new, it will give you a major boost as you grow your knowledge and build your community. If you are already an administrator that's leading a successful community, the book can enhance your knowledge and give you more to think about and, with that, even more experience for you to pull from.
"Managing Online Forums" is the one book that shows site owners and administrators how to create a safe and entertaining community that users will return to again and again. |
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By Clive P. Walker
Carolina Academic Press
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The Internet has impacted on the media in many crucial ways. Practices and laws have evolved, and the Internet has even exerted an existential influence over the format and viability of contemporary media outlets. In order to explore this important and on-going interaction, the Fifth Free Speech Discussion Forum assembled in London in 2012, involving a combination of leading scholars and practicing lawyers from North America and Europe. The papers in this collection therefore reflect a rich range of jurisdictions and experiences, with comparative approaches strongly to the fore. Some chapters deal directly with issues around the battles for survival of the established print and broadcast media in an Internet age. The Internet is also having profound effects on the delivery of mass free speech by forcing us to reconsider new approaches to legal designs and practices, especially within the jurisprudence of privacy, defamation, obscenity, and counter-terrorism. At the same time, the Internet must be equally acknowledged as offering considerable advantages for the production and publication of free speech by opening sources of information and channels of communication. Those who ignore the Internet's transformative capacity in the development of media law invite the fate of early redundancy or easy evasion. Thus, the chapters in this book offer original and authoritative insights into core debates around the interactions between the Internet, media, and law. |
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By Mary Katharine Ham
Guy Benson Mary Katharine Ham
Released: 2015-06-09
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They want to shut you up. But don’t let this be the End of Discussion.
In this fresh and provocative new book, Mary Katharine Ham and Guy Benson, dynamic Fox News and Townhall Media duo, expose how the Left exploits fake outrage to silence their political opponents—in public, on social media, at work, and even in their own homes. You’ve felt it and “End of Discussion” can help you fight it.
The political correctness born on college campuses has mutated into a new hypersensitivity. It’s weaponized in Washington, D.C. by a network of well-trained operatives, media, and politicians, and proliferated throughout the country. The new Puritans of the Left are quick to ban comedians and commencement speakers alike for the sin of disagreeing with them. They demand “safe spaces” while making dissent increasingly dangerous for Americans.
Ham and Benson demonstrate just how dangerous the outrage industry—a coalition of mostly liberal blowhards and busybodies—is to America. The media frenzy they create is designed to disqualify opposing viewpoints on everything from health care to education by labeling them racist, sexist, and evil. They punish speech that makes them uncomfortable, demanding boycotts, censures, and people’s jobs. They seek to win political and cultural debates by preventing them from happening.
And if you think this behavior is relegated to political fights or politicians, think again. The same activists are ready to foment outrage over your association with the “wrong” fried chicken joints, Internet browsers, breast cancer charities, pasta, children’s toys, Halloween costumes, TV shows, schools, and even comedians’ jokes.
With Ham and Benson’s help, readers can cut through the noise and find their voices again, fighting back against the rampant self-censorship and hair-trigger apologies that always make things worse, not better. With fresh reporting and insightful, occasionally tongue-in-cheek analysis, End of Discussion is a timely handbook for anyone who wants to make sure debate doesn’t meet an ugly death. |
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By Kathy Kingsley-Hughes
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A step-by-step guide to running your own vBulletin installation. This book is written for new and intermediate users of vBulletin, who want to manage and maintain a vBulletin discussion forum as easily as possible. No experience of web programming is required. |
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By Patricia S. Yoder-Wise RN EdD NEA-BC ANEF FAAN
Brand: Mosby
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This innovative online course offers an engaging way to master the content found in Yoder-Wise's Leading and Managing in Nursing, 5th Edition. It consists of 26 interactive learning modules that feature a wealth of learning activities and exercises, case studies, audio and video clips, critical thinking questions, and much more! It's a great way to learn more about key concepts in leadership and management, including delegation, strategic planning, staffing and scheduling, conflict resolution, team building, and managing change. - Twenty-six consistently organized modules set the stage for interactive learning, each including reading assignments, module objectives, learning activities, and case studies.
- An introduction to each module provides a brief overview of the content covered in each module for quick reference.
- Reading assignments direct you to specific chapters to read from the text and provide specific questions to help you recognize the most important parts of each module.
- Module Objectives define the goal of each module to give you guidance on what you should learn in each module.
- Think About... links give you questions to consider for better understanding by encouraging you to consider your personal viewpoint and experience with the presented topics and issues.
- Apply It! case studies help you practice your critical thinking skills to decide the best course of action.
- Try It! interactive learning activities help you apply your knowledge in the context of real world practice.
- Explore It! web quests and links give additional resources including articles, discussion forums, and video and audio clips via the Internet, to expand learning outside of the program.
- Wrap Up! conclusion screens summarize the content in each module for a quick review after completion.
- Hyperlinked key terms show definitions in popup boxes with just a click of the mouse, without leaving the current page.
- Video clips demonstrate effective communication, managing conflict, and dealing with difficult people.
- Updated reading assignments correspond directly with the 5th Edition of the text.
- Additional materials support new chapters on Patient Safety and Workplace Violence, illustrating the nurse manager's role in ensuring patient safety (a competency within the QSEN curriculum) and worker safety (a topic of the recent Sentinel Alert from the Joint Commission).
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By David Mytton
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This book is your guide to configuring, managing and maintaining a copy of Invision Power Board 2 on your own website to power an online discussion forum. Written for people who want to get their forums up and running as quickly as possible, this book will show you how to execute the full power of Invision Power Board. This book is written for new and intermediate users of Invision Power Board, who want to manage and maintain an Invision Power Board discussion forum as easily as possible. No experience of web programming is required. |
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By Swapna Kumar
Kumar Swapna
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The Internet is increasingly being used in higher education in several countries in the last decade, resulting in online, blended, and web-enhanced course offerings for students. Instructors who experiment with computer-mediated communication tools like discussion forums, chat rooms, and blogs to facilitate course discussions struggle to combine both online and classroom discussions effectively. This book presents two models for the integration of online discussions into the classroom to enhance student learning. Based on qualitative research in two university courses that used Blackboard, several benefits of these two models for instructors and students with different teaching and learning styles are discussed in this book. It also provides insight into the role of instructional design, instructor participation, and instructor feedback in web-enhanced instruction. This book contains strategies for effectively using and facilitating asynchronous online discussions that will be of special interest to teachers, educators, practitioners, trainers, educational technologists, and curriculum designers seeking to design and implement blended instruction. |
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By Leonard Shedletsky
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Discussion, whether in online or face-to-face environments, is central to attaining and disseminating information. Cases on Online Discussion and Interaction: Experiences and Outcomes contains examples of online discussions in a variety of contexts and for a variety of purposes, allowing readers to understand what is likely to facilitate discussion online, what is likely to encourage collaborative meaning-making, what is likely to encourage productive, supportive, engaged discussion, and what is likely to foster critical thinking. This book assembles cases that address an array of research methods, online communication media, forms of expression, communication contexts, and philosophical perspectives. |
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By Jonathan Paul Marshall
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Cybermind is an Internet mailing list, originally founded in 1994 to discuss the issues and problems of living online. It proved exceptionally fertile and is still going strong thirteen years later.
This book is an ethnographic investigation which follows Cybermind members in their daily lives on the List, and explores the ways they look at the world, argue, relate online life to offline life, use gender, and build community. Perhaps the most comprehensive history of an Internet group ever published, it includes detailed analyses using List members’ own words and commentary, and develops a unique theory of the relationship between culture, the problems of communication, and the ongoing processes of categorisation. Living on Cybermind illustrates how behaviour is affected by the organisation of communication, and how people deal with the paradoxes involved in resolving ambiguity and truth in a situation in which presence is always on the verge of slipping away. |
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By Marta Gierczynska-Kolas
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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