Set up Forum Topics

Discussion forums are the place for question & answer sessions or discussions related to your topic. You might use your resource center's discussion forum to:
- solicit and answer questions from visitors to your resource center
- faciliate a discussion about a challenge related to your topic
- get input on what kinds of resources people would find useful in your resource center

BEFORE you can start a discussion forum topic in your resource center, we need to set up your discussion forum.
If you'd like a different set of discussion forums for your resource center, just let us know. Remember, each discussion forum can contain multiple topics, so you'll be able to have many many different discussions within each of these four default forums.

To get the discussion going, you need to start by setting up a few initial forum topics. Think of these discussion topics as containers for the different types of conversation you want your users to participate in. For example, you might set up three initial forum topics:
"What's your biggest challenge in undertaking (name of topic) in your organization?" (post this in "Issues & challenges)
"What are your questions about how to do (name of topic)?" (post this in "Questions for the resource center team")
"What resources would you like to see on this page?" (post this in "Wishlist for the resource center team")

To create each forum topic, click on "create content" (in the right sidebar) and then choose "forum topic". Or just click here.

All you need to do now is to choose a title for your forum topic (this is what people will see on the main page of your resource center) and assign it the appropriate forum ("Issues & challenges, " "Wishlist", etc).