Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace: Effective Strategies for the Online Classroom: Publisher's page on a book by Rena M. Palloff and Keith Pratt focused on creating virtual classroom environments while fostering a sense of community.
Community Building on the Web: Companion Site of a book authored by Amy Jo Kim. Presents nine core strategies for site builders to make websites a catalyst for community growth - and earn money along the way.
Design for Community: Book by Derek Powazek consisting of chapters on specific issues of community-building and interviews with successful online community builders. Site includes book excerpts and the author's recent essays.
Hosting Web Communities: Building Relationships, Increasing Customer Loyalty, and Maintaining a Competitive Edge: Companion site of a book written by Cliff Figallo, who presents technologies and community development techniques suitable to web-based communities. Includes links to other resources.
Net Gain: Book by Hagel and Armstrong presenting scenarios and how online communities were used strategically to build value to customers and gain a competitive edge.
Online Communities: Commerce, Community Action, and the Virtual University: The publisher's listing of Weary's Online Communities includes a summary, author bio, table of contents, and a sample chapter.
Online Communities: Designing Usability, Supporting Sociability: Book by Jenny Preece that identifies important usability and sociability principles for making online communities successful.
Poor Richard's Building Online Communities: Contains updates and companion features to the book by Levine Young and Levine.