Recent content by Samir

Very true! It seems only about 10% of my traffic is coming from mobile, and that's just my younger users. The older guys are not even registered because they can't do anything more than email, lol.

Yeah, that's what usually happens in forums, right? :D We all say the same thing different ways until we agree they're the same things, lol. So coming back to the topic, imagine this type of 'everyone thinking the same way coming from different points of view' energy times 200+ people in the...

Oh, I totally agree with you here, and everyone at ForumCon believes in this hardcore. You can't monetize traffic if you have no traffic. You can't have traffic if you aren't making a good community, period. It all starts with the community and the users. No users, no traffic; no traffic, no...

I completely agree with what you're saying about milking the cash cow dry. IB and the other forum networks are definitely doing that, but that's what happens when forums are taken seriously as a big business rather than the small businesses they are. And big businesses have all that overhead...

You say that like it's a bad thing. I work 100hrs/week minimum on my site. And I feel I deserve to be compensated for my time. You may feel different, and you have a right to your opinion. If building a big, strong, profitable community was an exact science, you could just pay a company...

And how to best monetize this while still keeping a solid community is one of the core focuses of this conference. How do you approach large advertisers? How do you bring in ads without upsetting the forum members? You hear the answers to these questions and more.

If you look online, the admin-side of forums does seem a bit small as there aren't too many forums to address this niche. But it still is big business. There are people that earn their living and build companies from forums. And it's just a matter of time before the ramp for advertisers to...

Huddler moves everything to their own custom platform from what I gather. And while activity may have dropped, revenues probably didn't, which is the whole point of moving to their platform in the first place. I mean, passion about your forum is one thing, but when it is a management nightmare...

Just because he knows a lot, doesn't mean the people in his company execute what he says. Not exactly sure about those places because I've never heard of them. But I know that 'cleaning up' a forum that's been open to all sorts of crap will lose a lot of members because they can't act like...

I completely agree. But the value of the information seems to be improving with each conference. :)

I agree. He's always been top-notch at these conferences. Yep. Puts me in a more professional mood. ;)

Good to hear. :) We'll have to meet in person next time. :D They usually post all the slides and professional videos after the conference, but I've seen it take up to a month, so I shoot my own just so I can review it immediately if need be. I stepped out this time and did a lot more...

You're welcome captain. Here's a link to them, all except one which I have to cut in half before posting. I didn't create these for public consumption, just for myself in lieu of taking too many paper notes, so excuse the production quality...

I just happened to run into this thread via a search on ForumCon and I have to add some points. I've been to all three ForumCon events--SF 2011, Chicago 2011, and SF 2012. I'm about as little as they come--running a vb3-based site that has just over 3000 users. If everyone in the room is a...

I have an event-driven site that relies heavily on a modified version of the vb calendar. Like others have said, a robust calendar feature that integrates with the forum is a must for event-driven communities. And it is something we'd pay extra for if need be versus a bundled deal.