Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Beyond email... setting up your own forum on Go Daddy.

You have already used Go Daddy's (mostly) automated Joomla! installer to set up Joomla! on your website. Go Daddy also has installers for many popular forums.

The most widely used is a forum called phpBB. Another popular choice is simple machines forum (SMF).

If you choose to install a forum on your website you can give your forum its own url. You can make it so only your team can log in to post and view the posts. You can set up "sub-forums" for various topics (Marketing, OM, FE, IS) and "sub-sub-forums" if you wish (a forum for each workshop or part of the plan?). Or you can keep things simple at first and add structure as you go. If your team decides to use this, you can set up email notification, so team members get an email whenever something is posted.

My recommendation: go down this path only if your team is very clear that a forum is how you want to organize your thinking. Otherwise, first consider some other options.

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