The sites in this category can add a community feeling to your site. Some of these forums and communities are completely free, some cost a little. With them, your visitors can chat with eachother, or with you.
- Disqus has a free version with all the bells and whistles. Basically a discussion forum for your site. Lots of features, worth a closer look.
- Intense Debate good for blogs. Lots of features, like comment-threading, reply-by-email etc. Free.
- Invisionpower includes forums, blogs and galleries. Hosts 10 users at a time for USD 10 per month. 25 users costs USD 20. Integrates into your own domain. Most expenseive plans are USD 40 and 45.
- PhpBB seems free. A program for download.
- PresentlyApp is a microbloggong app to keep mambers in an organization connected. Web-based, free forever and safe, also with an Iphone app.
- Prezi lets you make presentations both online and offline. Has 3 plans, free, 59 and 159 Euro per year. Free plan has 100 MB storage.
- Simple Machines allows you to set up your own online community or bulletin board. Free, and meant for download. Not webhosted.
- Talki is an online forum for your website. It detects the colors of your website, the layout, and the fonts and automatically styles itself to blend it with your site. Tal.ki forums are optimized for search to bring new members to your forum. Configure the privacy settings for each forum to choose who has access, from guests to moderators. Members sign in with their existing accounts on Facebook, Google, Yahoo, etc. They have a free plan, and paid plans prices at USD 10, 60 and 250.
- Yammer basically works as a Twitter for companies. They have a free plan, and two paid plans, at USD 3 or 6 per user per month. Paid plans are necessary for data ownership.
- Vannila Forums is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum for the web. Free and ad-based.
- Wallwisher is basically an online wall that you and your friends can tag or comment on. It’s fun and free. What more can you ask?