- Digital Geographer - http://www.digitalgeographer.com/
Information architecture, interface design, and strategy for online places. Tips, tricks, and articles comparing real and online communities to improve your relationship with customers, clients and employees.
- Communitybuilding.com - http://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.
- Membership Agreements - http://www.ivanhoffman.com/membership.html
Article by lawyer Ivan Hoffman discussing membership agreements and resolving issues that arise from them. Applicable only to U.S. Law.
- Community is Dead; Long Live Mega-Collaboration - http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9708b.html
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."
- Fragmented by Technologies: A Community in Cyberspace - http://www.helsinki.fi/science/optek/1997/n1/davis.txt
Early academic paper studying the human interaction within an online community. The author observed antinomy, atomisation, carnival, decentralization, disembodiment, impersonality, intensification and lurking.
- CommunityAnswers.com - http://communityanswers.com/
Questions and answers and advice for online community builders, users, moderators, managers, and owners.
- Peter Kollock - http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/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.
- Network and Netplay: Virtual Groups on the Internet - http://www.aaai.org/Press/Books/Sudweeks/sudweeks.html
Online book by Fay Sudweeks et al. Addresses the mutual influences between information technology and group information and development. Discusses network norms and experiences and the essential nature of network communications.
- Suite101.com: Communication in Cyberspace - http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/9189
Articles, links and discussions on various programs used to communicate on the internet. Covers messaging, conferencing, discussion forums, telephony, chat and email.
- Community Networking Movement - http://www.scn.org/ip/commnet/
"Realizing that communication and information are increasingly dependent on networked digital information, community activists all over the world are developing community computer network systems."
- Full Circle Associates - http://www.fullcirc.com/
Provides strategic facilitation, online community development, marketing, and project management services. Includes a listing of online community building and virtual group facilitation/moderation resources.
- Design Principles for Online Communities - http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/kollock/papers/design.htm
Academic paper by sociologist Peter Kollock, drawing upon community design principles by Axelrod (1984), Ostrom (1990), Godwin (1994).
- The Online Community Report - http://www.OnlineCommunityReport.com/
Comprehensive news repository and e-mail newsletter about the business of online communities.
- Salon.com Technology: Must AOL Pay "Community Leaders"? - http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/04/16/aol_community/index.html
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."
- Club about Online Communities - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/clubaboutonlinecommunities/
Whenever you provide people with the ability to communicate online then community develops. This club is about the development and management of online communities.
- The Virtual Communities (VirCom) Project - http://www.informatik.umu.se/nlrg/vircom.html
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.)
- NTT Social Communication Laboratory - http://www.kecl.ntt.co.jp/csl/
Aims to develop a social information infrastructure and create a new lifestyle for interpersonal communication via the Internet.
- The Mailing List Gurus Page - http://lists.gurus.com/
A resource for finding, participating in, creating, and managing Internet mailing lists, from the authors of The Internet For Dummies
- Code begets community - http://esplanaden.lysator.liu.se/svmud/pargman/
Information about Daniel Pargman's Ph.D. thesis on the social and technical aspects of managing a virtual community, a study of a Swedish MUD. Sample chapters in PDF format.
- Benton Foundation: Community Building - http://www.benton.org/publibrary/toolkits/community.html
Detailed articles, tools, and resources about community building. Topics range from software recommendations to profiles of successful communities.
- Community Networks: Putting People First - http://www.iscommunications.co.uk/media/PeopleFirst.pdf
Editorial by Michael Mulquin. Discusses the role of Community Networks in delvering new information and communications technologies to UK residents. Most content is applicable elsewhere as well.
- About.com: Community Online - http://webdesign.about.com/od/community/
Editors' web site picks for fostering an online community and personalizing web sites.
- VirtualCommunities Start4all - http://www.start4all.com/?A=page&subject=virtualcommunities
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.
- How To Kill Community Networks - http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/tno/january-1996.html#schuler
By Doug Schuler. Essay describing three common means for the downfall of community networks.
- Howard Rheingold - https://www.rheingold.com/
Online community builder, acknowledged expert on social and cultural implications of cyberspace. Includes informative articles and advice and commentary on current online communities.
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