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Benton Foundation: Community Building
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Detailed articles, tools, and resources about community building. Topics range from software recommendations to profiles of successful communities.
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Building an Online Community: Just Add Water
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The dos-and-don'ts of building a website community by Matt Haughey, the creator of MetaFilter.
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CNet.com: Will Media Giants Bulldoze Communities?
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News Analysis by CNET observing how Disney and Time Warner, by building enhanced entertainment sites, threaten topical online communities.
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CornerWays: Community Development, Training, and Moderationn
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Online community development company that provides online community building, consulting and design services worldwide.
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First Monday - A Social Network Caught in the Web
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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.
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How To Kill Community Networks
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By Doug Schuler. Essay describing three common means for the downfall of community networks.
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NTT Social Communication Laboratory
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Aims to develop a social information infrastructure and create a new lifestyle for interpersonal communication via the Internet.
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The Admin Zone Forums
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Online resource for administrators of bulletin board communities. All topics dealing with running and setting up a forum community are discussed.
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About.com: Community Online
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Editors' web site picks for fostering an online community and personalizing web sites.
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Building Community: Online Resources
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Has papers, presentations, stories, indexs, and surveys.
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Club about Online Communities
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Whenever you provide people with the ability to communicate online then community develops. This club is about the development and management of online communities.
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Code begets community
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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.
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Community is Dead; Long Live Mega-Collaboration
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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."
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Community Networking Movement
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"Realizing that communication and information are increasingly dependent on networked digital information, community activists all over the world are developing community computer network systems."
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Community Networks: Putting People First
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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.
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CommunityAnswers.com
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Questions and answers and advice for online community builders, users, moderators, managers, and owners.
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Communitybuilding.com
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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.
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Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community
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Essay by former Wells conferencing manager John Coate explaining what happens in an online social environment.
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Design Principles for Online Communities
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Academic paper by sociologist Peter Kollock, drawing upon community design principles by Axelrod (1984), Ostrom (1990), Godwin (1994).
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First Monday - Phantom authority, self–selective recruitment and retention of members in virtual communities: The case of Wikipedia
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Peer-reviewed journal article by Andrea Ciffolilli.
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Fragmented by Technologies: A Community in Cyberspace
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Early academic paper studying the human interaction within an online community. The author observed antinomy, atomisation, carnival, decentralization, disembodiment, impersonality, intensification and lurking.
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Full Circle Associates
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Provides strategic facilitation, online community development, marketing, and project management services. Includes a listing of online community building and virtual group facilitation/moderation resources.
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Membership Agreements
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Article by lawyer Ivan Hoffman discussing membership agreements and resolving issues that arise from them. Applicable only to U.S. Law.
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Online Community Building Concepts
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List of fundamental principles to consider when starting a new community site.
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Online Hospitality: Moderator Guidelines and Community-Building Tips
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Gail Ann Williams writes about building conversation and community in online environments, adapted from the WELL Host Manuals.
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Peter Kollock
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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.
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Salon.com Technology: Must AOL Pay "Community Leaders"?
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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."
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Salon.com Technology: Netscape to community: You're evicted
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As Netcenter's forums fall casualty to AOL-merger cutbacks, participants mourn.
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Suite101.com: Communication in Cyberspace
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Articles, links and discussions on various programs used to communicate on the internet. Covers messaging, conferencing, discussion forums, telephony, chat and email.
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The Mailing List Gurus Page
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A resource for finding, participating in, creating, and managing Internet mailing lists, from the authors of The Internet For Dummies
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The Virtual Communities (VirCom) Project
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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.)
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VirtualCommunities Start4all
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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.
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WELL Conferencing Team - Community Building and Hosts Manual
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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.
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Xgencia - Best Practice in Online Communities
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UK online community specialists providing planning, RFP and ROI analysis services. Requires Flash.
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