Hi, Its been more than 1 year that I have started my forums. I get regular Questions in my forums but there are hardly any discussion posts and also people who ask questions don't come back. In order to solve this problem I read some articles on community building but I was not able to find answer's to these three question: What is it that they want from you ? What do we mean by participation ? Why will they participate ? It would be really appreciated if you could please help me out Thanks, Anirudh
It's not easy to get people to post your forum... Get lots of traffic to your site, and post a few quotes from interesting posts on the main page of your site, with links to your forum. Mention interesting posts in your newsletter. (If you don't have interesting posts, you'll have to write them yourself.) Add an RSS feed to your forum, and list the feed in RSS directories. Get links from related sites. Write articles and get them published on other sites and in article directories. Link to your forum in the resource box at the end.... I think the above matter will help you out... BOL
Hire Posters, Pay people to make their friends join your forum, add reputation system, disable signature unless one post say 20 threads Buy targeted traffic
just a simple answer go here- http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=188148 and here- http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=192911