Tutorials, guides, literature, tools, and people that help in planning, setting up and running an online community.
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Has papers, presentations, stories, indexes, and surveys.
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."
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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Online community development company that provides online community building, consulting and design services worldwide.
Helps companies manage and moderate all online content within both private online communities, MMOs, virtual worlds and public social media.
Provides strategic facilitation, online community development, marketing, and project management services. Includes a listing of online community building and virtual group facilitation/moderation resources.
By Doug Schuler. Essay describing three common means for the downfall of community networks.
Aims to develop a social information infrastructure and create a new lifestyle for interpersonal communication via the Internet.
List of fundamental principles to consider when starting a new community site.
Gail Ann Williams writes about building conversation and community in online environments, adapted from the WELL Host Manuals.
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.
News Analysis by CNET observing how Disney and Time Warner, by building enhanced entertainment sites, threaten topical online communities.
(March 31, 1999)
Online community development company that provides online community building, consulting and design services worldwide.
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."
Helps companies manage and moderate all online content within both private online communities, MMOs, virtual worlds and public social media.
Has papers, presentations, stories, indexes, and surveys.
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]
List of fundamental principles to consider when starting a new community site.
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.
Aims to develop a social information infrastructure and create a new lifestyle for interpersonal communication via the Internet.
By Doug Schuler. Essay describing three common means for the downfall of community networks.
Provides strategic facilitation, online community development, marketing, and project management services. Includes a listing of online community building and virtual group facilitation/moderation resources.
Gail Ann Williams writes about building conversation and community in online environments, adapted from the WELL Host Manuals.
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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