>From my experience, the labels don't really mean much -- it's really how you lead the visitors to the forum/discussions pages. I've seen successful sites using Forum, Forums, Community, Discuss, etc., even just plain talk bubble icons with no labels. The way to encourage visitors to join the discussion is to have some sort of 'Active Topics' or "Hot Topics" somewhere on the main page and other important pages of the site. Once they see where the forum is, they know where to go next time.<div>
<br></div><div>Btw, majority of first time visitors find the forum threads via Google.</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Tim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tim@samoff.com">tim@samoff.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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</div>> Let's CC Reggie.<br>
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I think he's on maemo-community.<br>
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On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:02:51 -0500, Ryan Abel <<a href="mailto:rabelg5@gmail.com">rabelg5@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Jan 14, 2009, at 9:00 AM, Dave Neary wrote:<br>
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>> Ryan Abel wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> On Jan 14, 2009, at 8:36 AM, Dave Neary wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>>> Why the insistence on "Talk" (which anyone not currently on ITt<br>
>>>> won't<br>
>>>> understand the meaning of) rather than "Forum" (which everyone and<br>
>>>> his<br>
>>>> dog now knows the meaning of)? Is there some justofication I'm<br>
>>>> missing?<br>
>>><br>
>>> Because that is what was decided.<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
><br>
<a href="http://www.internettablettalk.com/2008/12/02/internet-tablet-talk-to-become-talkmaemoorg/" target="_blank">http://www.internettablettalk.com/2008/12/02/internet-tablet-talk-to-become-talkmaemoorg/</a><br>
>><br>
>> I can understand that Internet Tablet Talk is to be renamed as<br>
>> <a href="http://talk.maemo.org" target="_blank">talk.maemo.org</a> - what I'm wondering is why we have to refer to it as<br>
>> "talk" rather than, say, "forum". A label which some people not in the<br>
>> Maemo community might have some chance of understanding, and thus<br>
>> clicking more often.<br>
><br>
> Let's CC Reggie.<br>
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