Forums

An Internet forum  is a discussion area on a website. Website members can post discussions and read and respond to posts by other forum  members. An Internet forum  can be focused on nearly any subject and a sense of an online community, or virtual community, tends to develop among forum  members.

An Internet forum is also called a message board, discussion group, bulletin board or web forum. However, it differs from a blog, the name for a web log, as a blog is usually written by one user and usually only allows for the responses of others to the blog material. An Internet forum usually allows all members to make posts and start new topics.

See the example of a forum (Tringa, Ornithological society in Helsinki) >>here .