SmartCompany’s Brad Howarth published an interesting article on Australia’s Online Forums today.
Online forums are one of the oldest communication forms on the web. They enable members to engage in group conversations in real time by posting messages to an updating web page or to an automated email alert system.
The popularity of forums is exploding. According to a new report by research group Forrester, 75% of Australian adults use social networks, including forums, and one-third are classified as citics, a group that contributes to online forums, posts ratings or reviews, comments on blogs, or contribute to wikis.
Many forums today started as social activities based around a specific topic, such as internet access (Whirlpool), dance music (inthemix.com.au) or sport (BigFooty).
Five of Australia’s best online forums:
AussieBloggers: A site for Australian bloggers to share tips and information.
BigFooty: The world’s largest forum site for AFL fans, with more than 60,000 members, and also covering other sports.
Essential Baby: Parenting community forum purchased by Fairfax in 2007, which has now grown into Australia’s largest online community for women, with 139,000 members leaving 10,000 posts a day.
InTheMix: Dance music appreciation forum that grew into a company, The Sound Alliance, with division covering rock music and gay culture, along with ticketing and consulting services.
Whirlpool: Possibly Australia’s most influential forum with more than 250,000 members and 100,000 unique visitors every day, focused on issues around internet service providers and broadband communications, and expanding into other areas.
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