Open Directory - Computers: Internet: On the Web: Online Communities: Community Management
See also: - Editors' web site picks for fostering an online community and personalizing web sites. - Detailed articles, tools, and resources about community building. Topics range from software recommendations to profiles of successful communities. - Has papers, presentations, stories, indexes, and surveys. - Whenever you provide people with the ability to communicate online then community develops. This club is about the development and management of online communities. - "Realizing that communication and information are increasingly dependent on networked digital information, community activists all over the world are developing community computer network systems." - 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] - Questions and answers and advice for online community builders, users, moderators, managers, and owners. - 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. - Essay by former Wells conferencing manager John Coate explaining what happens in an online social environment. - 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. - Article by lawyer Ivan Hoffman discussing membership agreements and resolving issues that arise from them. Applicable only to U.S. Law. - 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. - Online resource for administrators of bulletin board communities. All topics dealing with running and setting up a forum community are discussed. - 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. - Peer-reviewed journal article by Andrea Ciffolilli. (December 01, 2003) - 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 01, 2003) - News Analysis by CNET observing how Disney and Time Warner, by building enhanced entertainment sites, threaten topical online communities. (March 31, 1999) - 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) - Early academic paper studying the human interaction within an online community. The author observed antinomy, atomisation, carnival, decentralization, disembodiment, impersonality, intensification and lurking. (April 01, 1997)
