Why You Need a Message Board and Not FacebookWhen smaller organizations rely on email to keep members updated on the latest news and activities, problems immediately arise when a simple message generates many responses. As members respond to answers, the discussion quickly turns into a disorganized mess that is impossible to follow. When a truly controversial issue arises, the discussion can consume hours of everyone's time and nothing useful comes of it except angry members. I don't know about you, but I have a busy life and the last thing I want to do is waste it searching through conflicting threads in bouncing emails. Face-to-face meetings are not the solution. Expensive and time-consuming under the best of circumstances, group meetings are impractical in an Internet world without geographic boundaries. Many groups turn to social networks like Facebook to communicate. But even there, important topics are difficult to organize, and many people are simply afraid of Facebook and its ilk. By far the best option: Set up and manage your own...