Old school. Also known as message boards and bulletinboards. Not blogs nor content management systems.
Software:
- http://getvanilla.com/
- http://bbpress.org/
- http://punbb.informer.com/
- http://www.simplemachines.org/
- http://www.vbulletin.com/
- http://www.invisionpower.com/community/board/
- http://www.xmbforum.com/
- http://www.yabbserver.com/en/index.html
- http://www.yabbforum.com/
- http://www.webwizguide.com/webwizforums/
- http://www.phpbb.com/
- http://punbb.informer.com/
- http://www.mybboard.net/
- http://www.invisionpower.com/
- http://newsboard.unclassified.de/
How-To:
- http://www.managingonlineforums.com/
- http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2008/02/why-i-love-forums----and-not-blogs005.html
- http://www.seorefugee.com/seoblog/2007/02/06/top-ten-lessons-ive-learned-about-managing-an-online-forum/
- Building Your Community and other Forum Advice
- How to Build a Popular Forum Community in 5 Steps
- Building Communities with Software
- The Epic Saga of The Well
- http://recoveringjournalist.typepad.com/recovering_journalist/2008/03/know-comments.html
- http://getvanilla.com/blog/forums-vs-the-real-time-web/
- http://getvanilla.com/blog/5-simple-steps-for-a-successful-forum/
- http://getvanilla.com/blog/read-write-web-interview/
- http://www.cre8d-design.com/2006/06/reflections-on-using-vanilla-forum-software/
Communities:
- http://VanillaForums.org
- http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/
- http://www.yuku.com/
- http://www.big-boards.com/
- http://www.nexopia.com/
- http://riversmallies.com
- http://www.ohioccwforums.org/
- http://drupal.org/forum
- http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/
- http://expressionengine.com/forums/
- http://jupitercolony.com/
- http://www.sploder.info/
- http://rucku.com/mod/vanillaforum/vanilla/
- http://forum.webstandardsgroup.org/
- Toledo area:
- http://lussumo.com/community/
- http://www.spodesabode.com/
- http://www.thinkabouttech.com/
- http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/index.php?s=3ad27f7a3529d594adfb87c920641c58
- http://forum.centreon.com/index.php
- http://www.ay-ziggy-zoomba.com/phpBB3/index.php
- http://wordpress.org/support/
- http://bikingtoronto.com/forum/
- http://www.adventurecanoe.com/forum/
- http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/
- http://www.malariacontrol.net/forum_index.php
- http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/
- http://www.phpbb.com/community/
- http://mbforum.letsdoo.org/
- http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/
- http://discuss.joyent.com/
- http://forum.slicehost.com/
- http://community.mybboard.net/
- http://www.haveamint.com/forum/
- http://www.appletalker.net/forum/
- http://www.skateone.com/forum/
- http://www.city-data.com/forum/
- http://forums.movabletype.org/
- http://forums.vwvortex.com/
- http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/
- http://www.easternuswx.com/bb/index.php?act=idx
- http://www.hipforums.com/modules/Jig/index.php?s=f1677d2d6a1cdba45d90ad6e0019fb08
- http://railsforum.com/
- http://walkytalk.com/forums.asp
- http://emptees.com/talk ***
- http://support.delicious.com/forum/
- http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/index.php
- http://www.typophile.com/forums
- http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/index.php
- http://hostpress.org/
- http://forums.zoho.com/zoho-discussions
- http://www.botl.org/
- http://www.thefreshloaf.com/forum
- http://emericaskate.com/emb/
- http://www.after8.pl/Vanilla/
- http://forum.jus.uol.com.br/
- http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail?hl=en
- http://moms4mom.com/
- http://www.localharvest.org/forum/
- http://forum.slicehost.com/
- http://community.history.com/directory/
- http://forum.developers.facebook.com/index.php
Etc.