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B!Zine: Online Communities: Resources and Technologies - Article discussing the advantages and disadvantages of individual online community software and product brands to help website planners choose what's best.
 
Big Bang Workshops: Virtual Collaboration on the Web - Book reviews, FAQs, links and other resources for online community builders.
 
Building an Online Community - Online book that also covers particular applications such as Universities, Distance Learning and Customer Relationship Management.
 
CNET: Community Sites Form Alliance - CNET news article on how Communities Inc. was formed when subject-specific online communities partnered together.
 
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 Building on the Web - Companion Site of a book authored by Amy Jo Kim. Presents nine core strategies for site builders to make websites a catalyst for community growth - and earn money along the way.
 
Community Manager Network - Provides information and resources to online community professionals and companies in need of the services these professionals provide. Includes news, articles, online learning and discussion forums.
 
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."
 
CommunityStart.com - Features a searchable directory of resources and information for community builders and a weekly email newsletter covering community building tips, industry news, and web site promotion and marketing.
 
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.
 
Design Principles for Online Communities - Academic paper by sociologist Peter Kollock, drawing upon community design principles by Axelrod (1984), Ostrom (1990), Godwin (1994).
 
Digital Geographer - 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.
 
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.
 
Full Circle Associates' Online Community Resources - A listing of online community building and virtual group facilitation/moderation resources.
 
Howard Rheingold - Online Community Builder, acknowledged expert on social and cultural implications of cyberspace. Includes informative articles and advice and commentary on current online communities.
 
Membership Agreements - Article by lawyer Ivan Hoffman discussing membership agreements and resolving issues that arise from them. Applicable only to U.S. Law.
 
Network and Netplay: Virtual Groups on the Internet - 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.
 
Online Community Building Concepts - List of fundamental principles to consider when starting a new community site.
 
 

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