Employing a forum or message board on your site or blog is one of the oldest and, debatably, one of the easiest ways to engage in conversation with your site frequenters and followers. After all, the concept is already there and all you need to do is set up various threads for specific topics and questions to prompt the exchange of opinions.

Customarily, site owners utilize forum building applications which can take some relatively sizeable time out of your day to set up and customize. They also come with their own set of limitations which include having to sign up for another set of log in credentials you’re going to have to commit to memory, and having to frequently drop by the forum site to check for responses and comments.

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To answer hitches like these, the company behind customizable forum tool Lefora has come out with a quick and easy way to embed a forum onto a site or blog with a lighter service called Tal.ki.

Unlike Lefora (or the likes of Zetaboard and SimpleMachines, for that matter), Tal.ki is dead-on simple and offers a quick way of including message boards into your site. Implementation is easily comparable to integrating widgets and other JavaScript capabilities: just head on over to the Tl.ki Web site and copy the generated line of JavaScript and paste it into your site’s HTML code. This literally took a few seconds for us to accomplish when we tried it out.

The result is a series of embeddable forums with their included threads and posts which can be segregated into multiple pages. This way, the conversations are not limited to the forum’s page, content or content creator and it makes it easier to monitor the flow of discussion without having to navigate away from specific pages.

Functionality-wise, Tal.ki carries the standard forum features like the ability to start a topic, embed various files onto posts, subscribe to specific threads and both sticky and closed posts. For added convenience, users don’t need to sign up to gain access to the Tal.ki forums, as it accepts sign in credentials for various social network, including Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo and OpenID, as well as blogging services like WordPress and Blogger.

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