Forum for Mac OS

A Better Way to Exchange Information

Forum is a flexible conferencing and project collaboration product that can be tailored to work just the way your team of Macintosh users does. With Forum's bulletin board structure, you can meet the challenge of communicating among many users working on many projects in different locations and at different times. An intuitive, graphical interface coupled with a versatile format for posting information eliminates the tangle that can arise from having threads of information from various sources. Forum helps you maintain related messages from multiple users without the limitations encountered with other solutions such as electronic mail.

Forum provides ongoing "many-to-many" communication that lets you share files, sounds, text and graphics in a Macintosh LAN environment. From reviewing documents to checking reference materials to initiating a spirited debate, Forum provides the place.

Award Winning Communication Software

Evaluated on the basis of performance, quality, innovation, usefulness and value to users of Macintosh computers, Forum is recognized for achieving the highest standards of product excellence. Forum received the 1991 MacUser Editors' Choice Award honorable mention in the Best Communications Software category.

A Well-Designed Graphical Look

Forum was designed with quick, active user participation in mind. Colorful icons, folders and finder-like views make it easy to find and sort information. Even novice computer users find Forum easy and intuitiveŅa communication tool that they enjoy using.

Forum includes a set of useful icons. You can create additional icons of your own design from any Macintosh screen or graphic application. A full complement of keyboard-equivalent commands further enhances the Forum user interface by providing useful shortcuts.

Forum Applications

Here are just a few ways people are using Forum. For R&D project collaboration: who's doing what, project specification records, current and historic milestone dates, problem tracking and customer feedback. As a corporate newswire: company activities planning, company policy announcements, conference room scheduling, who's in and who's not, and current affairs broadcasting. For sales information sharing: account team discussions, sales reports, product literature, competitive positioning strategies and much more.

Easy, Organized Access to the Information You Need -- With Security and Notification Options

Information on each Forum server is organized into folders and bulletin boards that contain topics. Folders, bulletin boards and topics are user-defined and accessed by simply double-clicking on their icons. The versatile topic document, the heart of Forum, consists of a running dialogue. Entries consist of text and attached graphics, files (e.g., from Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel), and sounds. As individual topic entries are posted, the date, time, user and entry number are recorded in the topic. Search and navigation features allow you to review an entire discussion and quickly locate a specific response number or text string. An entire topic discussion, or a desired portion, can be printed out to provide a permanent record. Time-out features let you automatically delete topics after a day, week or month of inactivity.

Each Forum user has a customized environment, with personally organized folders and bulletin boards. Users prioritize bulletin boards by setting a notification switch on or off. Topics are bolded or not bolded to identify them as read or unread. A personal no-interest folder hides irrelevant bulletin boards.

Notification options include: "pop-up" window, sound, and/or a blinking icon in the menu bar. Each "pop-up" window includes a brief summary of the new entries which allows users to quickly review new information. Each Forum participant can monitor individual discussions as closely or casually as desired.

The Forum Advantage

Forum is a conferencing, bulletin board and project collaboration system that can bring your people and projects together through text, files, pictures and sounds. It is giving many organizations a competitive communications advantage. Call AGE Logic to find out just how easy it is to apply Forum to your business needs.

System Requirements and Product Specifications

Macintosh Client Macintosh Server
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