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title: Tools for Community
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# Tools for building a community

There are many tools that you can use to build community!

## Discourse

Discourse is our discussion forum of choice. It's focussed on building sustainable communities, it works on mobile devices and overall it looks pretty sleek! At P2PU we are using two discourse forum: [community.p2pu.org](http://community.p2pu.org/) which is for people like you interested in building courses and [discourse.p2pu.org](http://discourse.p2pu.org) which is for course specific discussion.

## Twitter

Twitter is a massively popular social network and people use it for all kinds of things in many different ways. One way that we use twitter for courses is by choosing a hashtag for a course and tagging all tweets about the course with that hashtag.

## Disqus

You have already used a disqus forum when you introduced yourself! Disqus is a good tool to use for adding comments in a web page. This is great if you want people to directly comment on content. An advantage of disqus is that you don't need to host your own forum, you can just register an account on their website and the rest is all taken care off!

## Google Hangouts and Unhangouts



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title: Tools for Community
layout: course_page
---
# Tools for building a community

There are many tools that you can use to build community!

## Discourse

Discourse is our discussion forum of choice. It's focussed on building sustainable communities, it works on mobile devices and overall it looks pretty sleek! At P2PU we are using two discourse forum: [community.p2pu.org](http://community.p2pu.org/) which is for people like you interested in building courses and [discourse.p2pu.org](http://discourse.p2pu.org) which is for course specific discussion.

## Twitter

Twitter is a massively popular social network and people use it for all kinds of things in many different ways. One way that we use twitter for courses is by choosing a hashtag for a course and tagging all tweets about the course with that hashtag.

## Disqus

You have already used a disqus forum when you introduced yourself! Disqus is a good tool to use for adding comments in a web page. This is great if you want people to directly comment on content. An advantage of disqus is that you don't need to host your own forum, you can just register an account on their website and the rest is all taken care off!

## Google Hangouts and Unhangouts

Google hangouts is a good tool for video calls. You can either have a one on one call with someone, or you can have a video conference between up to 10 people. You can also talk with someone immediately (like phoning them now) or you can schedule an event for a certain time and invite people.

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