Discussion Forums Evolved, VanillaForums.com

Great communities start with great content, and you've already got that in your blog. If you have a blog and are thinking of launching a community forum, you can use your blog traffic and blog comments to quickly seed the community.

Vanilla's integrated comment system and forum community let you mirror the discussions in your blog comments in a forum and give your readers a place to hang out and build strong bonds with you and each other. Once your readers start participating, they will keep coming back as they earn badges, are mentioned by others and receive activity notifications. A highly engaged community will provide you with instant feedback and lots of user generated content.

Why use Vanilla for comments?

• Use blog traffic to quickly seed community participation and vice versa
• A single profile, reputation and user experience across the forum and the comments
• Engage commenters with Vanilla’s existing gamification and curation features
• Generate more traffic and more revenue

See it in action: 9to5mac.com, 9to5forums.com