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Editors' web site picks for fostering an online community and personalizing web sites. - The Admin Zone Forums
Online resource for administrators of bulletin board communities. All topics dealing with running and setting up a forum community are discussed. - Benton Foundation: Community Building
Detailed articles, tools, and resources about community building. Topics range from software recommendations to profiles of successful communities. - Building an Online Community: Just Add Water
The dos-and-don'ts of building a website community by Matt Haughey, the creator of MetaFilter. - Building Community: Online Resources
Has papers, presentations, stories, indexs, and surveys. - Club about Online Communities
Whenever you provide people with the ability to communicate online then community develops. This club is about the development and management of online communities. - Community Networking Movement
"Realizing that communication and information are increasingly dependent on networked digital information, community activists all over the world are developing community computer network systems." target="_blank" - Community Networks: Putting People First
Editorial by Michael Mulquin. Discusses the role of Community Networks in delivering new information and communications technologies to UK residents. Most content is applicable elsewhere as well. [PDF] - CommunityAnswers.com
Questions and answers and advice for online community builders, users, moderators, managers, and owners. - Communitybuilding.com
The secret to success on the web is to build a community, not just a web site. Here one can find tools and tips to make a web site interactive and, as a result, a place of community. - CornerWays: Community Development, Training, and Moderationn
Online community development company that provides online community building, consulting and design services worldwide. - Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community
Essay by former Wells conferencing manager John Coate explaining what happens in an online social environment. - Design Principles for Online Communities
Academic paper by sociologist Peter Kollock, drawing upon community design principles by Axelrod (1984), Ostrom (1990), Godwin (1994). - Full Circle Associates
Provides strategic facilitation, online community development, marketing, and project management services. Includes a listing of online community building and virtual group facilitation/moderation resources. - How To Kill Community Networks
By Doug Schuler. Essay describing three common means for the downfall of community networks. - Membership Agreements
Article by lawyer Ivan Hoffman discussing membership agreements and resolving issues that arise from them. Applicable only to U.S. Law. - NTT Social Communication Laboratory
Aims to develop a social information infrastructure and create a new lifestyle for interpersonal communication via the Internet. - Online Community Building Concepts
List of fundamental principles to consider when starting a new community site. - Online Hospitality: Moderator Guidelines and Community-Building Tips
Gail Ann Williams writes about building conversation and community in online environments, adapted from the WELL Host Manuals. - Peter Kollock
Associate professor of the University of California, Los Angeles. Includes curriculum vita, course syllabi and recent papers on online communities and markets, which is his current research. - Suite101.com: Communication in Cyberspace
Articles, links and discussions on various programs used to communicate on the internet. Covers messaging, conferencing, discussion forums, telephony, chat and email. - The Virtual Communities (VirCom) Project
Five PhD students out to study virtual communities, their rise and development, evolution, meaning and its effect to traditional organizations. (Some papers are in Swedish.) - VirtualCommunities Start4all
Directory of resources and tools for building online communities. Rich content for analysis of virtual communities. With a list of popular communities and vendors in this field. - WELL Conferencing Team - Community Building and Hosts Manual
The WELL's description of conferencing, why it's the best tool for building community, and how to get starting in a conferencing environment. Links include the WELL Host Manual. - Xgencia - Best Practice in Online Communities
UK online community specialists providing planning, RFP and ROI analysis services. Requires Flash. - First Monday - Phantom authority, self–selective recruitment and retention of members in virtual communities: The case of Wikipedia
Peer-reviewed journal article by Andrea Ciffolilli. (December 1, 2003) - First Monday - A Social Network Caught in the Web
The authors present an analysis of Club Nexus, an online community at Stanford University. Through the site they were able to study a reflection of the real world community structure within the student body. (May, 2003) - Salon.com Technology: Must AOL Pay "Community Leaders"?
Article by Janelle Brown discussing issues on the use of volunteers to manage a site's online community. "The volunteers may feel good about giving their time, but the for-profit online communities are clearly profiting from those volunteers' services." target="_blank" (April 16, 1999) - Salon.com Technology: Netscape to community: You're evicted
As Netcenter's forums fall casualty to AOL-merger cutbacks, participants mourn. (April 6, 1999) - CNet.com: Will Media Giants Bulldoze Communities?
News Analysis by CNET observing how Disney and Time Warner, by building enhanced entertainment sites, threaten topical online communities. (March 31, 1999) - Community is Dead; Long Live Mega-Collaboration
Usability expert Jakob Nielsen's take on Online Communities: "The Web is not a community: a huge impersonal city is a better metaphor. User-contributed content can be valuable (if edited), but chat rooms should be avoided because of participation inequality." target="_blank" (August 15, 1997) - Fragmented by Technologies: A Community in Cyberspace
Early academic paper studying the human interaction within an online community. The author observed antinomy, atomisation, carnival, decentralization, disembodiment, impersonality, intensification and lurking. (April, 1997)
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