Forums are special areas of your web site that you setup to support a common purpose or sub-group within your community. Pages are grouped together to support the forum. Forums can be setup for a variety of purposes including:

• Special Interest Groups
• User Committees
• Networking
• Site Services (like Help Desk, etc.)
• Custom Member Forums

The options and capabilities are virtually unlimitied.

Forums are not only pages that are grouped together on your site, they also share a common set of security protocols. They can be setup to:

• Restrict Access to Authorized Users
• Require Special Moderation of User Contributions
• Protect Sensitive Information
• Permit Site-Wide, Unrestricted Access

You can setup each individual forum to be as free and open, or as secure and locked-down as you need.

Forum management can be distributed to appropriate users by granting them Forum Ownership. Forum Owners have complete control (excluding system administration settings) of their forum.