Why would you want to convert your forum into an RSS feed you ask? Well doing so will provide the capability for others to integrate your dynamically created content into their websites every time a user post a new thread on your forum. Users of your RSS syndication feed can simultaneously monitor multiple forums for their viewers of which your forum could be a part of.
Your forum will be providing dynamically created target rich content for other webmasters. Forums are undisputedly overall the best source on line for fresh niche targeted information. Posts from real people with real answers in very specific areas. With an RSS forum feed, webmasters now have the capability to share fresh targeted content rich information while providing very search engine friendly web pages. Google and other search engines love frequently updated keyword rich content in web pages which can contribute to better overall popularity and positioning . The limitations and possibilities of how one can use your syndicated forum is endless. That's why this site was developed, for webmasters to cross share their Forums.
Some Forums do not have the internal capability to convert their content to a RSS or XML feed. In this case you need an outside program to convert your forum into an RSS syndicated url so you can distribute and cross share your forum with other webmasters. There is a very good program called Grouper, it creates custom RSS feeds from web pages and news searches. Create Custom RSS feeds with Grouper
The very popular Forum software Vbulletin verions 3.0+ has RSS, XML, and JS(Java Script) output capabilities. This site is currently operating vBulletin Version 3.0.1 and is also installed and being used on other sister sites. I highly recommend this forum software. Not only do I recommend vBulletin for the syndicated feed capability but it also offers an amazing list of very useful functions far superior to any other forum software out here. vBulletin Forum Software