Introducing Zoho Discussions

If you noticed, so far this year we have been trigger-shy on new products - that's because we have been focusing on integration between our applications. But today is brand-new-product-day at Zoho. We're very excited to announce our newest product: Zoho Discussions. 

http://discussions.zoho.com/home

Zoho Discussions allows organizations to create external and internal communities where problems are solved, topics are discussed and ideas are exchanged. 

Businesses looking to add a good community software now have a new option in Zoho Discussions. Businesses can start using Zoho Discussions under their own domain and can customize it with their branding etc. There are two key ways Zoho Discussions can be used for your business. 

• Customer Support Forums - Discuss with your customers on various topics
• Internal Communities - Discussions with employees
  

Features

There are too many features to be listed here. We compiled a page with all the features here.

http://discussion.zoho.com/features

We can summarize these features in six broad areas:

1. Community Engagement. Make it more attractive for your customers and users to keep coming back: Profiles, user labels, watch lists and more.
2. Content Discoverability. with Zoho Discussions, content in your communities and forums is easy to find: Content organization, advanced search, RSS, SEO Options, Widgets (includes support for OpenSocial Widgets), etc.
3. Branding. Take control of your brand and the customer experience in your community: Custom Domains, Branding Options, Custom Elements, Customizable look and feel, etc
4. Topic Administration. Manage the lifecycle of your posts and discussions: Topic-specific voting, topic status, best answer/solution, announcements with expiration date and more.
5. Rich User Experience. Your users will enjoy using your forums and community: WYSIWYG post editor, threaded conversations, drafts and previews, preference management, etc.
6. Administration. Support more users with less community administrators: Fine grained access controls, auto spam, community-marked content, user management and more.