SEO and forums.

I've just been introduced into looking into SEO as a technical concept recently, and I'm going to be integrating a blog and a forum into our website. I'm not seeing any help, hints, or tutorials on how to maximize SEO through the structure and use of forums. I'm finding plenty on Blogs and websites, but I don't know if I can just lump blogs and forums together, or does the difference in structure and use a completely different angle of attack? Does anyone have any suggestions or resources I can use to help me understand this enough to effectively implement it?

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

M Borg.