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- computers → internet → cyberspace → culture
- computers → internet → web design and development → authoring → webmaster resources
Links
- 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.
- Online Community Building Concepts
http://www.well.com/user/gail/community.tips.html - List of fundamental principles to consider when starting a new community site.
- Online Hospitality: Moderator Guidelines and Community-Building Tips
http://www.well.com/confteam/hosting.html - Gail Ann Williams writes about building conversation and community in online environments, adapted from the WELL Host Manuals.
- WELL Conferencing Team - Community Building and Hosts Manual
http://www.well.com/confteam/ - 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.
- 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.
- Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community
http://www.cervisa.com/innkeeping - Essay by former Wells conferencing manager John Coate explaining what happens in an online social environment.
- 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).
- 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.)
- Salon.com Technology: Netscape to community: You're evicted
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/04/06/netcenter/index.html - As Netcenter's forums fall casualty to AOL-merger cutbacks, participants mourn.
- 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
- CornerWays: Community Development, Training, and Moderationn
http://www.cornerways.com - Online community development company that provides online community building, consulting and design services worldwide.
- Xgencia - Best Practice in Online Communities
http://www.xgencia.com - UK online community specialists providing planning, RFP and ROI analysis services. Requires Flash.
- Building Community: Online Resources
http://bcn.boulder.co.us/community/resources/center.html - Has papers, presentations, stories, indexs, and surveys.
- 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.
- Building an Online Community: Just Add Water
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/building_an_online_community/ - The dos-and-don'ts of building a website community by Matt Haughey, the creator of MetaFilter.
- 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.
- CNet.com: Will Media Giants Bulldoze Communities?
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-223726.html - News Analysis by CNET observing how Disney and Time Warner, by building enhanced entertainment sites, threaten topical online communities.
- 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.
- First Monday - A Social Network Caught in the Web
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_6/adamic/ - 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
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_12/ciffolilli/ - Peer-reviewed journal article by Andrea Ciffolilli.
- The Admin Zone Forums
http://www.theadminzone.com - 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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