An asynchronous video forum is the maintenance of a periodic or ongoing interaction of a group on a focused topic. "Thought leaders" are provided with forum technology so that they can interact with other asynchronous video forum participants (107) on a focused group. Knowledge providers (101) are invited to record and/or upload their video clips to a receiving server (102). The clips are converted to popular and efficient "streaming" file formats, then placed in appropriate "conversational" sequence on a video-stream server (105). A video-stream server (105) is provided on a computer network (106), such as the Internet. Users (107) are allowed to connect to the video-stream server (105) using appropriate protocols. The viewer/participant sees a sequence of "talking head" shots of participant comments that build on previous comments. The major difference in viewing asynchronous video forum "meeting" is that the comments would have been input over many hours or even days by people who might be widely dispersed geographically.
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