11. An apparatus comprising: a network interface unit configured to enable communications over a network; and a processor coupled to the network interface unit, and configured to: define, for an online conference session, a plurality of pages based on information received from a moderating participant having administrative privileges for the conference session, each page corresponding to a discussion topic of a text-based communication; select, based upon information received from a request from the moderating participant, one of the plurality of pages; synchronize the selected page, such that the selected page is displayed to the moderating participant and each of one or more other participants in the online conference session; after selecting one of the plurality of pages, chronologically display, in the display of the, selected page, an entirety of the text-based communication that is generated while the selected page remains selected until another page of the plurality of pages is selected; and receive, from the moderating participant, commands to manage the online conference session, the commands including a command to add a new page corresponding to a new discussion topic, a command to delete at least one page of the plurality of pages, a command to modify the selected page, a command to search for a specific page of the plurality of pages, and a command to close the selected page.
11. An apparatus comprising: a network interface unit configured to enable communications over a network; and a processor coupled to the network interface unit, and configured to: define, for an online conference session, a plurality of pages based on information received from a moderating participant having administrative privileges for the conference session, each page corresponding to a discussion topic of a text-based communication; select, based upon information received from a request from the moderating participant, one of the plurality of pages; synchronize the selected page, such that the selected page is displayed to the moderating participant and each of one or more other participants in the online conference session; after selecting one of the plurality of pages, chronologically display, in the display of the, selected page, an entirety of the text-based communication that is generated while the selected page remains selected until another page of the plurality of pages is selected; and receive, from the moderating participant, commands to manage the online conference session, the commands including a command to add a new page corresponding to a new discussion topic, a command to delete at least one page of the plurality of pages, a command to modify the selected page, a command to search for a specific page of the plurality of pages, and a command to close the selected page. 14. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the processor is further configured to display a new tab corresponding to a new page in a display window of the moderating participant and each of the one or more other participants, and wherein each previously displayed text-based communication associated with respective ones of the discussion topics is maintained on each corresponding page.