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Build community with message boards, discussion groups, chat, and comments

Add commenting to your website

There are a few good programs that allow you to enhance the commenting features of your blog or add comments to your website. Most of them are simple to install. Just embed some javascript and the service sets up the rest. As admin you have the ability to cusomize it.

coCommerce - French only. Doesn't like Safari.

CommentSystem - An inexpensive Dreamweaver plugin.

Disqus - Many consider this to be the best, but their support leaves a lot to be desired. Broken links on their website, and slow response times. There are two versions, a free option and a premium pay option.

Echo - An impressive feature set that attempts to integrate all social networking sites into your comments platform. There are free and fee versions. It can get downright pricey if your site is used a lot. But this may be the future of all these systems.

IntenseDebate - Super easy to set up and very powerful. Free. But erratic. Sometimes replies do not post at all. Support is poor.

InstaComment - Simple barebones free system.

Polldaddy - Another way to add ratings to your site. Also does polls and surveys.

Rating System - Add ratings of products, articles, comments with this service.

Add a message board with these tools

There are numerous programs you can use to create message boards or interactivity. For a good article on the subject, go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software

Below is a fairly comprehensive list of the most popular tools available. Some are surprisingly inexpensive and others are free. Because their feature lists change rapidly, I have made no attempt to rate or compare them. When you are ready to add a message board, let me know, and I will study the options and make some recommendations.

http://groups.yahoo.com - A really good and powerful free system.

http://eve.groupee.com - This is the best system I have used.

http://www.invisionpower.com - Nice system with good quoting tool. Used by eGullet.

http://getvanilla.com - Vanilla is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum for the web.

http://www.ezboard.com

http://www.atomz.com

http://www.vbulletin.com

http://www.ubbcentral.com/ubbclassic

http://www.snitz.com

http://www.myfreebulletinboard.com

http://www.idealbb.com

http://www.phpbb.com

http://invisionboards.com

http://www.bulletinboards.com

http://www.tangler.com

Blog software with interactivity

http://wordpress.com - Generally considered the best.

http://typepad.com

http://blogger.com



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