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Difference between Forum, Newsgroups and Community.

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Anindya
Anindya Original post #1
Oct 10, 2006 at 12:33 AM
Helllo All,
Can anybody tell me whats the difference between Forum,Newsgroups and Community. Please try to answer in as much detail as possible.
R
Oct 10, 2006 at 9:33 AM
hey...

okie.. this is what i found out..

Forum : Would be a place for people to virtually meet online where they can post messages and respond to each other. These usually are set up to discuss a specific topic (ie. pets, computing, games,spritiuality and so on n so forth).

Newsgroup : Same as forum, an on-line discussion group. However to view and post messages to a newsgroup, you need a news reader, a program that runs on your computer and connects you to a news server on the Internet.
Note that with a forum you wont need a news reader.

Community : A virtual community is a group of people sharing common interests, ideas, and feelings over the Internet or other collaborative networks. Whenever you talk about a community its actually an "interaction" you are talking about. Blogs, forums, newsgroups etc are simply tools used to maintain this interaction

Hope this helped!!
Anindya
Anindya #3
Oct 10, 2006 at 10:32 PM
Thanks Rakesh, I was looking an answer of this sort. I have added to ur reputation.