Building an Online Community using Community Server 2008.5

Summary: Telligent Systems' Community Server is a well-designed, secure, stable, and scalable platform that can support online communities of nearly any size. It has a large feature set built around an integrated suite of core components—forums, blogs, galleries, wikis, and groups—and social media apps (member profiles, tagging, ratings, etc.). Not an on-demand, SaaS platform, it will be most appealing to organizations that can host the community on their own servers and have in-house Microsoft expertise (it's built on the .NET framework). But other hosting options do exist, and, overall, Community Server can support just about any online community use case