| About.com: Community Online: Editors' web site picks for fostering an online community and personalizing web sites. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Code begets community: 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. |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| Community Networks: Putting People First: 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. |
| 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). |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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." |
| Salon.com Technology: Netscape to community: You're evicted: As Netcenter's forums fall casualty to AOL-merger cutbacks, participants mourn. |
| 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 Admin Zone Forums: Online resource for administrators of bulletin board communities. All topics dealing with running and setting up a forum community are discussed. |
| The Mailing List Gurus Page: A resource for finding, participating in, creating, and managing Internet mailing lists, from the authors of The Internet For Dummies |
| 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. |
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