| Digital Geographer - 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.
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| 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.
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| Membership Agreements - 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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| 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."
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| 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.
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| Virtual Communities: Structure and Content - Outline of an introductory college seminar on virtual communities.
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| Online Community Building Concepts - List of fundamental principles to consider when starting a new community site.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| CommunityAnswers.com - Questions and answers and advice for online community builders, users, moderators, managers, and owners.
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| 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.
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| Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community - Essay by former Wells conferencing manager John Coate explaining what happens in an online social environment.
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| Network and Netplay: Virtual Groups on the Internet - 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.
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| 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.
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| 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."
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| 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.
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| Design Principles for Online Communities - Academic paper by sociologist Peter Kollock, drawing upon community design principles by Axelrod (1984), Ostrom (1990), Godwin (1994).
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| 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.
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| The Online Community Report - Comprehensive news repository and e-mail newsletter about the business of online communities.
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| 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."
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| 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.
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| 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.)
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| Salon.com Technology: Netscape to community: You're evicted - As Netcenter's forums fall casualty to AOL-merger cutbacks, participants mourn.
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| NTT Social Communication Laboratory - Aims to develop a social information infrastructure and create a new lifestyle for interpersonal communication via the Internet.
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| 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
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| How To Kill Community Networks - By Doug Schuler. Essay describing three common means for the downfall of community networks.
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| Autospec Thematics: Virtual Communities To Match Goals with Resources - Detailed strategy for creating virtual special interest groups.
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| CornerWays: Community Development, Training, and Moderationn - Online community development company that provides online community building, consulting and design services worldwide.
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| Xgencia - Best Practice in Online Communities - UK online community specialists providing planning, RFP and ROI analysis services. Requires Flash.
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| 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.
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| Building an Online Community: Just Add Water - The dos-and-don'ts of building a website community by Matt Haughey, the creator of MetaFilter.
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| Building Community: Online Resources - Has papers, presentations, stories, indexs, and surveys.
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| The Internet as Mass Medium - Article by Merrill Morris of Indiana University. Discusses theory of communication on the Internet and its effects as a mass media.
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| Benton Foundation: Community Building - Detailed articles, tools, and resources about community building. Topics range from software recommendations to profiles of successful communities.
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| 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.
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| About.com: Community Online - Editors' web site picks for fostering an online community and personalizing web sites.
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