Discussion Forums for Small Business, Corporate and Educational Institutes

	Multiple Forums, FuseTalk is different A lot of other discussion forum packages support single forum installations. FuseTalk is bred to support any number of forums, containing any number of categories. Each forum can be managed centrally by the Global Administrator. Each forum can have different permissions and users.
	Wizards to the rescue Making life easier for Administrators is important to us. Reducing administration time and making common tasks easier helps Administrators get back to their daily tasks. Creating forums, and setting up external authentication are both handled by a FuseTalk Wizard that does just about everything, but make you a cup of coffee.
	Using FuseTalk through E-mail FuseTalk features powerful E-mail based functionality. Users can subscribe to topics and categories and receive digest subscriptions daily. Forum Administrators can synchronize a category with a mailing list, or enable email posting so that users can follow a category by E-mail. E-mail posting/Mailing list synchronization included with FuseTalk Standard/Education/Enterprise * POP Server required to use e-mail posting features
	Single Login So, you already have a user database, or LDAP repository or just about any other way to store users. Now, you want them to log into a forum without being prompted. Easy. FuseTalk can authenticate with any authentication system to which your web application can talk. Just pass us a few pieces of information, or use the wizard, and your forum can be synchronized with an external user repository.
	Secure Conversation Within a forum, you can have any number of categories, and each of these categories can have different access rights. Categories can be created with full permissions, read only, reply only, locked, password protected and more. Locked categories are especially important as they allow Forum Administrators to create a category and only have a certain group of users access it.
	Share Documents Attaching files to messages is accomplished using an elegant file selector within FuseTalk. Administrators can control the types of files that are uploaded and how large they can be. Users can attach as many files to a message as they like.
	Weblogs Global administrators can create weblogs for their users, weblogs allow users to share their thoughts and opinions to a mass audience.
	Knowledge Base The knowledge base module in FuseTalk allows users to convert topics/threads into a knowledge base item, those items are stored in a special category for users to view. ** included with FuseTalk Standard/Education/Enterprise
	Related Topics The related topics module allows users to view topics that are similar. ** included with FuseTalk Standard/Education/Enterprise
	Calendaring Calendar administrators can post important events for forum users to view, another way to establish a thriving interactive community.
	Reporting What good is data if you can't report on it? FuseTalk has a built-in reporting system that can report on users, topics, categories and more; all in industry-standard formats like CSV, XML. ** included with FuseTalk Standard/Education/Enterprise
	Polling Create polls for users on which to vote - a great way to form a community and get valuable information at the same time.
	Surveys Create surveys on a category-by-category basis, or for a user's profile. Surveys are a great way to gather user information for just about anything. ** included with FuseTalk Standard/Education/Enterprise
	Role Based Permissions Security couldn't be easier. Create groups of users and assign the group any number of permissions that you want. This is the core of the permission structure for users within FuseTalk - powerful and flexible with over 25 different permission rights available. ** included with FuseTalk Standard/Education/Enterprise
	WYSIWYG Editor Allow users to enter their content in a familiar and flexible editor, which supports HTML and spell checking. Unlike other packages, the WYSIWYG Editor is also cross-browser and cross-platform.
	The heart of FuseTalk: the API FuseTalk was created with integration and the developer in mind. The core of FuseTalk is a web services enabled API, which is fully documented and included within FuseTalk. The API details each and every method in FuseTalk, and allows the developer to integrate FuseTalk completely into their environment. ** included with FuseTalk Standard/Education/Enterprise
	Section 508 Compliance FuseTalk complies with Section 508 (the Accessibility Act). FuseTalk uses industry standard tools like Bobby, to analyze forum content and ensure that FuseTalk is as compliant as possible.
	Multilingual Interface Another core component of FuseTalk is the multilingual database access layer and application interface. Forums can be set up for different locales; the entire interface can be translated into any language.
	CSS What we think looks good isn't always what you think looks good. FuseTalk's interface is derived from CSS Style sheets, so customizing the esthetics of the product is as easy as changing a CSS style sheet. FuseTalk is packaged with several style sheets and you can create your own.
	SubCategories Organize your content; create categories within categories to reduce clutter on the entry page to the forum. Each category can have its own status and be viewable to a select group of users.
	Private Messaging Users can engage in personal conversations between one another, and save the history of those conversations. These conversations can be controlled by the user by allowing them to ban other users from communication or disabling the feature all together.
	Provide Expert Advice What better way to provide your members with expert advice or solutions than to provide them with a means to discuss their issues or concerns with your experts, confidentially or publicly.
	Threaded Display Flexibility is key in FuseTalk's UI design. Topics can be viewed in the popular linear fashion, or in the old style threaded method. Users can also view messages one by one or branch by branch from the threading method.
	Forum Buddies Keep track of people with whom you interact in the forum by forming your own buddy list. The buddy list is handy for sending friends a quick message, and knowing when they are online.
	Administration Administration is a focal point of FuseTalk. FuseTalk can create and manage one forum or manage multiple forums. Each forum can have its own permission structure, which is dictated by the Global Administrator. This allows for FuseTalk to be deployed company-wide, yet managed centrally.
	Censor Content Ensuring that quality content is maintained within a forum is important to anyone. Forum administrators can maintain a list of words to block, and Global Administrators can maintain a list that all forums adopt automatically.
	Author Icons FuseTalk is packaged with a set of Author icons for users to select, and Administrators can enable the functionality so that users can upload their own icons (within the parameters defined by the Administrator).
	Password Security Security is important in an ever-changing IT environment. FuseTalk takes security seriously. In addition to the numerous features in the product to control users and forums, FuseTalk ensures data security by encrypting users' credentials using MD5 (Hashing) of passwords.
	Private Topics Collaboration is key, but so is security. Sometimes a topic is private, and a forum needs to be able to handle that. FuseTalk offers a feature called Private Topics, which allows users to create a topic and select users who can participate.
	Expressing Emotion in a Text World Sometimes expressing emotion in text communication can be difficult. FuseTalk is packaged with several graphical emoticons to make text-based communication more personable. Global Administrators can also add and update the emoticons within FuseTalk.
	XML and FuseTalk XML and FuseTalk are like peas in a pod. Topics can be saved in XML format, Category content can be saved in XML format and messages can be posted to FuseTalk via XML.
	NNTP (News server) Synchronization Even though NNTP is a dated technology, it's still widely used. FuseTalk features a NNTP symbolization engine that allows a Global Administrator to synchronize a NNTP Group to a FuseTalk Category. That's right - anything posted in FuseTalk goes to the group and anything posted in the NNTP group comes back to FuseTalk. ** included in FuseTalk.NET Standard/Education/Enterprise only
	Moderation Moderation is important as the user base grows in a forum. FuseTalk features full moderation capabilities, such as moving messages & topics, deleting messages & topics, banning users, locking topics, etc.
	Banning Users Not everyone can behave and FuseTalk can effectively handle those who don't. Users can be banned by E-mail address, domain, username and IP Address.