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Adding Interactive Discussion Groups to Your Web Site or Blog
I have been writing a step-by-step Web site creation chronicle at one of my other blogs, RealTown Report. Recent addition of online discussion forums at my new Point2 Agent web site has sparked some questions about the basic how-to's of adding a discussion forum to a web site or blog.
Q. "Frances, I really like your community Blog. My question is, I have a RealTown blog, how do I go about doing a community Blog? Do I have to get rid of the other one? Also, where can I find instructions on how to build one with links to my site as you did? Thanks for all your help!
Q. "Fran, I’m really intrigued by the Discussion groups that you’ve added to your web site. This is a great way to take a static site and make it interactive. Will you share the mechanics of how to establish a Discussion group? Is there a website I can go to? Do you offer classes on how to do this? Thanks for any assistance you can give me."
First, let me clarify that the online discussion forums are not community blogs, per se. They are blog-like in terms of engaging the web visitor in a highly interactive format, but we will refer to them as RealTown Groups to match the descriptors at RealTown.com, where these Groups (forums) are hosted. There is an example of a RealTown Group on the Foreclosure Resources page of my web site titled, "Helping Americans KEEP Their Homes." There is another Group on the web site and I expect that I will have several niche discussion groups in short order.
Here are the steps to set up and install a RealTown Group on a web site:
- Log in to RealTown.com. If you have a RealTown Blog, you are already a member of RealTown. Use your e-mail and password to log in. You will land on your My RealTown page.
- Click on My Groups on the My RealTown menu on the right.
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- Click on Create a Group on the menu on the right.
- Set up the Group following instructions on the screen.
- Write a post or two explaining the mission of the Group and scroll to the bottom of the list and click on the RSS Feed icon. Copy the URL that appears in the browser.
- Paste this code in the appropriate place in your web site. If you have a Professional or Premium Point2 Agent web site, go to Edit, select a page, select a Center Column Add Content link, write a headline and brief introduction for your discussion group, and then replace the default Yahoo! RSS feed with your own RSS Group Feed.
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Posted: 4:11 PM, Apr. 14, 2008 |
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RE: Adding Interactive Discussion Groups to Your Web Site or Blog
Frances,
Thank you for the tutorial. I'm currently evaluating my web marketing strategy and a RealTown Group used as a community forum on your website is a great idea.
Best Wishes,
Kelsie |
Posted by Kelsie Compton at 8:47 PM, Apr. 15, 2008 |
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RE: Adding Interactive Discussion Groups to Your Web Site or Blog
Does with work with non Point2 Agent websites? I can not seem to get it to work. Thanks. |
Posted by Scott Pierce at 7:11 AM, Apr. 16, 2008 |
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RE: Adding Interactive Discussion Groups to Your Web Site or Blog
| Just to clarify, you say 'copy the url' in step 5, and then 'paste this code' in step 6. I read that to say, "copy and then paste the url", which is what I did. I just get a url on my website vs. what you have on yours. Thanks. I assume I am missing something. |
Posted by Scott Pierce at 7:25 AM, Apr. 16, 2008 |
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RE: Adding Interactive Discussion Groups to Your Web Site or Blog
| You can add discussion sites to any web site ... does your web site provider offer you a means of displaying RSS feeds? You may want to create a widge online to display your feeds of your web site provider does not offer you an acceptable means of working with RSS feeds. |
Posted by Frances Flynn Thorsen at 7:38 AM, Apr. 16, 2008 |
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RE: Adding Interactive Discussion Groups to Your Web Site or Blog
CLARIFICATION ... Copy the URL is correct ... that is the code ... Point2 Agent has a very easy system that works with the simple URL ... you should contact your web site provider and ask if they have a facility to handle RSS feeds ... otherwise you may want to at widget options. |
Posted by Frances Flynn Thorsen at 7:41 AM, Apr. 16, 2008 |
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