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I have created a social forum as a part of my site,
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No you haven't. You only have added the infrastructure.
A forum needs a community to exist.
Make no mistake, it is difficult to build a community.
So what can you do? Nobody enters an empty forum.
1. Get the people from your Veterinary class on board. Add a private forum for them (they are hopefully your friends) to talk about your profs. In addition you publish scans of your notes on that forum to give them a reason to regulary check your forum.
2. Start a few threads in every of your subforums with a topic that everybody can easily participate in.
3. The most difficult, scan the net for blogs with a similar topic and build relationships with their owners through leaving comments. You should also join every animal forum that exist online. Your goal should be to write 20 normal posts in each of 10 forums and 10 blog comments in 10 differnt blogs each.
4. After you wrote those posts (take a month to do it), you say every one in those forums and every blog owner that you have a forum at once. That creates all activite in a small time frame which allows a conversation to happen in your forum.