Understanding the difference between Forums and Blogs
Forums- Refers to a free discussion of any topic at hand. This can resort to a certain forum moderator to create categories of discussion where everyone is allowed to provide solutions, comments and suggestions at any given time. Forums are usually being controlled by Forum Moderators, these are individuals who usually filter the post prior approving to be shown in public. Thus, as forum enthusiasts will still have abide of the forum rules. Forums are more into resolving concerns, discussing the content in public. At most cases, forums are spearheaded by big companies that offers wide range of services, products and software. Through forums the company can get more traffic and the most important is candid feedback of product solutions, comments, expert suggestions and future development of the company's product and services. One example are:
- www.supportrix.com/forum (is a wide range of technical support site that offers great deals in providing technical assistance for any network related troubleshooting that covers 24/7, Offers convenience for easier troubleshooting via a remote assistance tool.)
- http://ubuntuforums.org/forum.php (the forums are part of the wider Ubuntu community which is governed as described on the governance page of the Ubuntu website.Note that the document above is structured to describe NOT JUST the Forums, but all the areas of the project which are large and independent enough to have their own dedicated leadership structures.)
- http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/ (Use this forum to report issues with the online forums application. When reporting an issue, please include relevant details such as repro steps, error messages, and browser version. The goal of this forum is to either provide an existing solution to you or to get the bug logged to the Forums team. This is not a support forum. Fixes are not guaranteed.)
There are also forums created by some Web enthusiast to triggers the need of valuable information by extracting the information from a free flow discussion of people with different expertise and specialization. There are lot of site offering free and open source forum software which you can find now.Samples are https://www.phpbb.com and www.freeforums.org are among the few to mention.
Blogs - Personal expression of things that the blogger or author wanted to post. It can either be factual or fictional. Most blogs centralizes to certain topic that will fall under the author's interest which are solely being controlled by the site/blog owner. These are either promotional or just personal jot of and event, concern, product or services. Blogs are usually being used to improve Search Engine Optimization since Google is constantly doing update on Panda and Penguin. The call of quality on contents is the most effective way of putting your site in Number 1 of Google page. Cross or Guest blogging also helps to introduce fresh ideas and contents to the blog and thus, this promotes network extensions.
Comments on blogs are very essential to know that the Blog have either have raised an eyebrow for those who disagree or for those a blog that have gained praise due to quality content. Blogs are similarly related to how forum works but its not further organized into categories rather its categorized by topics.You can also get free blog site in an instant from www.blogger.com and blogspot.com.
So I was hoping to put justice to the the difference between the two terms that are not identical but symmetrical in many aspects but definitely two distinct word which sometimes baffles us with the exact meaning.
