Computers, Internet, Cyberspace, Online Communities, Resources
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- Questions and answers and advice for online community builders, users, moderators, managers, and owners.
- News Analysis by CNET observing how Disney and Time Warner, by building enhanced entertainment sites, threaten topical online communities.
- 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.
- Articles, links and discussions on various programs used to communicate on the internet. Covers messaging, conferencing, discussion forums, telephony, chat and email.
- By Doug Schuler. Essay describing three common means for the downfall of community networks.
- UK online community specialists providing planning, RFP and ROI analysis services. Requires Flash.
- 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.
- Whenever you provide people with the ability to communicate online then community develops. This club is about the development and management of online communities.
- 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.
- 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 ine
- Comprehensive news repository and e-mail newsletter about the business of online communities.
- Essay by former Wells conferencing manager John Coate explaining what happens in an online social environment.
- Article by Merrill Morris of Indiana University. Discusses theory of communication on the Internet and its effects as a mass media.
- 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 builder, acknowledged expert on social and cultural implications of cyberspace. Includes informative articles and advice and commentary on current online communities.
- "Realizing that communication and information are increasingly dependent on networked digital information, community activists all over the world are developing community computer network systems."
- 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.
- Provides strategic facilitation, online community development, marketing, and project management services. Includes a listing of online community building and virtual group facilitation/moderation resources.
- Academic paper by sociologist Peter Kollock, drawing upon community design principles by Axelrod (1984), Ostrom (1990), Godwin (1994).
- 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.)
- Aims to develop a social information infrastructure and create a new lifestyle for interpersonal communication via the Internet.
- Article by lawyer Ivan Hoffman discussing membership agreements and resolving issues that arise from them. Applicable only to U.S. Law.
- List of fundamental principles to consider when starting a new community site.
- Has papers, presentations, stories, indexs, and surveys.
- 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.
- Detailed articles, tools, and resources about community building. Topics range from software recommendations to profiles of successful communities.
- Detailed strategy for creating virtual special interest groups.
- As Netcenter's forums fall casualty to AOL-merger cutbacks, participants mourn.
- A resource for finding, participating in, creating, and managing Internet mailing lists, from the authors of The Internet For Dummies
- 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.
- Outline of an introductory college seminar on virtual communities.
- The dos-and-don'ts of building a website community by Matt Haughey, the creator of MetaFilter.
- Gail Ann Williams writes about building conversation and community in online environments, adapted from the WELL Host Manuals.
- Editors' web site picks for fostering an online community and personalizing web sites.
- 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' servic
- Online community development company that provides online community building, consulting and design services worldwide.
- 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.
- 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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