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Chats and Forums 4
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Cyberculture - Subcultures, Society 141
 About.com: Community OnlineAbout.com: Community Online
 Editors' web site picks for fostering an online community and personalizing web sites.
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The Admin Zone ForumsThe Admin Zone Forums
 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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Benton Foundation: Community BuildingBenton 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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Building an Online Community: Just Add WaterBuilding 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 ResourcesBuilding Community: Online Resources
 Has papers, presentations, stories, indexs, and surveys.
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Club about Online CommunitiesClub 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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Community Networking MovementCommunity 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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Community Networks: Putting People FirstCommunity 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]
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CommunityAnswers.comCommunityAnswers.com
 Questions and answers and advice for online community builders, users, moderators, managers, and owners.
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Communitybuilding.comCommunitybuilding.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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CornerWays: Community Development, Training, and ModerationnCornerWays: Community Development, Training, and Moderationn
 Online community development company that provides online community building, consulting and design services worldwide.
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Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online CommunityCyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community
 Essay by former Wells conferencing manager John Coate explaining what happens in an online social environment.
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Design Principles for Online CommunitiesDesign 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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Full Circle AssociatesFull 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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How To Kill Community NetworksHow To Kill Community Networks
 By Doug Schuler. Essay describing three common means for the downfall of community networks.
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Membership AgreementsMembership 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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NTT Social Communication LaboratoryNTT 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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Online Community Building ConceptsOnline 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 TipsOnline 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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Peter KollockPeter 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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Suite101.com: Communication in CyberspaceSuite101.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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The Virtual Communities (VirCom) ProjectThe 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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VirtualCommunities Start4allVirtualCommunities 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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WELL Conferencing Team - Community Building and Hosts ManualWELL 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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Xgencia - Best Practice in Online CommunitiesXgencia - Best Practice in Online Communities
 UK online community specialists providing planning, RFP and ROI analysis services. Requires Flash.
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First Monday - Phantom authority, self–selective recruitment and retention of members in virtual communities: The case of WikipediaFirst 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)
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First Monday - A Social Network Caught in the WebFirst 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)
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Salon.com Technology: Must AOL Pay "Community Leaders"?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)
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Salon.com Technology: Netscape to community: You're evictedSalon.com Technology: Netscape to community: You're evicted
 As Netcenter's forums fall casualty to AOL-merger cutbacks, participants mourn. (April 6, 1999)
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CNet.com: Will Media Giants Bulldoze Communities?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)
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Community is Dead; Long Live Mega-CollaborationCommunity 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)
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Fragmented by Technologies: A Community in CyberspaceFragmented 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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