Comments on: Personal Finance Forum for Malaysians

By: yowchuan

yowchuan — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:08:33 +0000

Wan,

That's a great suggestion, but hosting that forum would be a tricky thing itself.

And here's something the personal finance bloggers has come up with:
http://www.meshio.com/2009/04/emoney-april-2009...

By: yowchuan

yowchuan — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:59:35 +0000

hey mtsen, how about creating plugin for Facebook to connect with phpBB? :-D

By: yowchuan

yowchuan — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:57:50 +0000

Thanks Jacques for the tips. I'm still looking for the plugin that would allow integration with existing social networks.

As for the registration, I think there's no choice because if I allow 'anonymous' posters, the forum would soon be filled with spams. Even with registrations implemented, I still need to clean up spammers who got through using mainly russian-based IPs and emails.

Really hope this will snowball.

By: encikwan

encikwan — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:50:07 +0000

My suggestion is to ask a few personal finance bloggers to own a personal finance forum. Since they own the forum, then they have more motivation to participate in the forum, at least in the first 6 months.

By: Jacques

Jacques — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:14:30 +0000

You don't need to pay forum posters for it to grow. What you need is to be present, engaging and let people express themselves freely. With time, a few members will become regulars and then the snowball can start…

I would also integrate it better within your blog. It looks kind of like a second website presently, and you'd get a lot more participation if people could use their facebook / disqus / other profile to post instead of registering a new identity.

By: mtsen.com

mtsen.com — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:56:45 +0000

Hi, forum is great for general topics but tough for specific topics like this to grow on. my recent web 2.0 idea can solve this concern too but need helps to build it, hope one day we can meet up to explore this …