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http://webdesign.about.com/od/community/

» About.com: Community Online - Editors' web site picks for fostering an online community and personalizing web sites.

» The Admin Zone Forums - Online resource for administrators of bulletin board communities. All topics dealing with running and setting up a forum community are discussed.

http://www.benton.org/publibrary/toolkits/community.html

» Benton Foundation: Community Building - Detailed articles, tools, and resources about community building. Topics range from software recommendations to profiles of successful communities.

http://www.digital-web.com/articles/building_an_online_community/

» Building an Online Community: Just Add Water - The dos-and-don'ts of building a website community by Matt Haughey, the creator of MetaFilter.

http://bcn.boulder.co.us/community/resources/center.html

» Building Community: Online Resources - Has papers, presentations, stories, indexs, and surveys.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/clubaboutonlinecommunities/

» 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.

» 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."

http://www.iscommunications.co.uk/media/PeopleFirst.pdf

» Community Networks: Putting People First - Editorial by Michael Mulquin. Discusses the role of Community Networks in delivering new information and communications technologies to UK residents. Most content is applicable elsewhere as well. [PDF]

» CommunityAnswers.com - Questions and answers and advice for online community builders, users, moderators, managers, and owners.

» 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.

» CornerWays: Community Development, Training, and Moderationn - Online community development company that provides online community building, consulting and design services worldwide.

» Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community - Essay by former Wells conferencing manager John Coate explaining what happens in an online social environment.

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/kollock/papers/design.htm

» Design Principles for Online Communities - Academic paper by sociologist Peter Kollock, drawing upon community design principles by Axelrod (1984), Ostrom (1990), Godwin (1994).

» 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.

http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/tno/january-1996.html#schuler

» How To Kill Community Networks - By Doug Schuler. Essay describing three common means for the downfall of community networks.

» 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

http://www.ivanhoffman.com/membership.html

» Membership Agreements - Article by lawyer Ivan Hoffman discussing membership agreements and resolving issues that arise from them. Applicable only to U.S. Law.

» NTT Social Communication Laboratory - Aims to develop a social information infrastructure and create a new lifestyle for interpersonal communication via the Internet.

http://www.well.com/user/gail/community.tips.html

» Online Community Building Concepts - List of fundamental principles to consider when starting a new community site.

http://www.well.com/confteam/hosting.html

» 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.

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/kollock/

» 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.

http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/9189

» 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.

http://www.informatik.umu.se/nlrg/vircom.html

» 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.)

http://www.start4all.com/?A=page&subject=virtualcommunities

» 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.

» 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.

» Xgencia - Best Practice in Online Communities - UK online community specialists providing planning, RFP and ROI analysis services. Requires Flash.

» First Monday - Phantom authority, self–selective recruitment and retention of members in virtual communities: The case of Wikipedia - Peer-reviewed journal article by Andrea Ciffolilli. (December 1, 2003)

» First Monday - A Social Network Caught in the Web - 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. (May, 2003)

» 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." (April 16, 1999)

» Salon.com Technology: Netscape to community: You're evicted - As Netcenter's forums fall casualty to AOL-merger cutbacks, participants mourn. (April 6, 1999)

» 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. (March 31, 1999)

» 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." (August 15, 1997)

» 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. (April, 1997)

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