About.com: Community Online
Editors' web site picks for fostering an online community and personalizing web sites.
Autospec Thematics: Virtual Communities To Match Goals with Resources
Detailed strategy for creating virtual special interest groups.
Benton Foundation: Community Building
Detailed articles, tools, and resources about community building. Topics range from software recommendations to profiles of successful communities.
Building an Online Community: Just Add Water
The dos-and-don'ts of building a website community by Matt Haughey, the creator of MetaFilter.
Building Community: Online Resources
Has papers, presentations, stories, indexs, and surveys.
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.
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)
Code begets community
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.
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)
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."
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