Forum with Blog? Need some guidance on my next steps

I launched a niche forum a few years ago, and I've just begun to take a serious approach over the past year with its re-design etc. I have seen a difference in member participation etc, but a lot of work still needs to be done.

Alongside this forum, under the same domain name, there was going to be a WordPress blog site which would have a combination of unique and non-unique content about the latest research etc which would then have links to discussion of those articles in the forum. the main reason why I created this WP component was because I felt it was necessary to have other rich content on the same site, and perhaps it would give a boost in my traffic.

At this stage, I am beginning to think I have made a mistake.

The problem is that I don't have the time to write any unique content, or any real quality stuff. I might be able to para-phrase or summarise articles into a blog post once a week, but time, for me, is of the essence. Someone a long time ago, who runs a successful forum said, you don't want to be bogged down writing blog posts - let your forum members create the unique content.

So at this stage I don't know what to do. Here are a few things I have through about:

• Should I create a blog component and proceed as normal with the blog and do my best to get unique content?
• Create just the forum and market it as much as I can/
• Create a blog separately from the forum (so if it doesn't go as planned, it won't reflected the quality of the forum to potential members)?

The forum was always supposed to be the focal point of the website. But I really don't know if including this blogging component is a good idea at this stage in its infancy.