Exchange important ideas and information with Discussion Forums. Topics and responses appear in structured, hierarchical "threads" that make reading and responding easy. More comprehensive than chat sessions or e-mail, Discussion Forums can keep a permanent history of conversations among all users. This tool is indispensable for joint file editing, team projects, brainstorming and other collaborative work.

Discussion Forums allow you to quickly and easily:

• Establish forums on any topic to generate feedback or new ideas from your group
• Post a suggestion or problem solution in a message thread
• Limit a discussion to a specified group of users or open participation to your entire organization
• Search for a particular discussion thread by title or key word

As part of the SmoothGreen Application Portal release 2.0, the Discussion Forums application is readily available from anywhere in the world using a simple web browser.

With Discussion Forums, project teams and departments can brainstorm ideas for proposals and procedures. Site visitors can participate in discussion threads despite different time zones. Companies can collect suggestions on an ongoing basis from site visitors, registered users, customers and employees.

Whether you are in the office, on the road or working at home, you always have access to the latest discussion information and can post your own thoughts.

With Discussion Forums, project teams and departments can brainstorm ideas for proposals and procedures. Site visitors can participate in discussion threads despite different time zones. Companies can collect suggestions on an ongoing basis from site visitors, registered users, customers and employees.

Whether you are in the office, on the road or working at home, you always have access to the latest discussion information and can post your own thoughts.

• Brainstorm New Product Ideas
  Create a discussion to collect product ideas from your employees. Sales and Marketing teams can prioritize customer feedback for planning sessions.
  
  
• Encourage Site Visitors to Interact with you
  Create a bulletin board and urge site visitors to give you feedback on various discussion forums.
  
  
• Encourage Employee Involvement with a Company Suggestion Box
  Create a suggestion box and urge your workers to contribute ideas from geographic boundaries.
  
  
• Clarify Project Requirements
  Establish forums for use by project teams to comment on proposals, specifications and deliverables.
  
  
• Maintain a Record of Committee Decisions
  Post minutes of prior meetings and allow committee members or employees to comment on policies and procedures.
  
  
• Ongoing Field Status Reports
  Project team members can post daily updates to report the status of open issues. Conduct discussions among the members of the entire group, or limit access to specific users for confidential or sensitive issues.