Tutorials, guides, literature, tools, and people that help in planning, setting up and running an online community.
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- First Monday - Phantom authority, self–selective recruitment and retention of members in virtual communities: The case of Wikipedia Peer-reviewed journal article by Andrea Ciffolilli.
- Crisp Helps companies manage and moderate all online content within both private online communities, MMOs, virtual worlds and public social media.
- Membership Agreements Article by lawyer Ivan Hoffman discussing membership agreements and resolving issues that arise from them. Applicable only to U.S. Law.
- 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.
- Online Community Building Concepts List of fundamental principles to consider when starting a new community site.
- Online 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.
- WELL 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.
- Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community Essay by former Wells conferencing manager John Coate explaining what happens in an online social environment.
- Full 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.
- 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.
- NTT Social Communication Laboratory Aims to develop a social information infrastructure and create a new lifestyle for interpersonal communication via the Internet.
- CornerWays, LLC Online community development company that provides online community building, consulting and design services worldwide.
- Building Community: Online Resources Has papers, presentations, stories, indexes, and surveys.
- Benton Foundation: Community Building Detailed articles, tools, and resources about community building. Topics range from software recommendations to profiles of successful communities.
- Community 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.
- About.com: Community Online Editors' web site picks for fostering an online community and personalizing web sites.
- How To Kill Community Networks By Doug Schuler. Essay describing three common means for the downfall of community networks.
- First 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.
- 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.
- 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."