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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." |
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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. |
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The Admin Zone Forums - http://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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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. |
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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. |
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About.com: Community Online - http://webdesign.about.com/od/community/
Editors' web site picks for fostering an online community and personalizing web sites. |
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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. |
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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.) |
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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. |
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CornerWays: Community Development, Training, and Moderationn - http://www.cornerways.com
Online community development company that provides online community building, consulting and design services worldwide. |
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Community Networks: Putting People First - http://www.iscommunications.co.uk/media/PeopleFirst.pdf
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. |
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CNet.com: Will Media Giants Bulldoze Communities? - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-223726.html
News Analysis by CNET observing how Disney and Time Warner, by building enhanced entertainment sites, threaten topical online communities. |
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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. |
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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." |
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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. |