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- 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.
- Salon.com Technology: Must AOL Pay "Community Leaders"? - Article by Janelle Brown discussing issues on the use of volunteers to manage a site's online community. "The volunteers may feel good about giving their time, but the for-profit online communities are clearly profiting from those volunteers' services."
- Online Communities: Commerce, Community Action, and the Virtual University - The publisher's listing of Weary's Online Communities includes a summary, author bio, table of contents, and a sample chapter.
- CornerWays: Community Development, Training, and Moderationn - Online community development company that provides online community building, consulting and design services worldwide.
- Building an Online Community: Just Add Water - The dos-and-don'ts of building a website community by Matt Haughey, the creator of MetaFilter.
- About.com: Community Online - Editors' web site picks for fostering an online community and personalizing web sites.
- CommunityPeople.net - Hosting services for online community facilities such as member profiles, events, instant messaging, online chat, message forums, email discussion groups and online polls.
- SKIZZLE! by RootFolder Communications - Online community offering personal storage and workgroup collaboration. Features Clubs, message boards, databases, file sharing and other personal and community productivity tools. Also features a search engine and free membership.
- Locators Online - An online community of volunteers that help loved-ones communicate during non-political and non-military disasters. Helps establish contact between families and friends when other methods of communication have failed.
- 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.
Wikipedia Articles
- Online Health Communities - Online health communities provide a means for patients and their families to learn about an illness, seek and offer support, and connect with others in similar circumstances.
- Online wedding - Something most often seen in massively multiplayer online role-playing games, online weddings date all the way back to the beginning of online communities and early online games such as The Shadow of Yserbius. Two people who wish their avatars, or characters, to be married will create an event that resembles a standard wedding.
- Online identity - An online identity is a social identity that network users establish in online communities. Although some people prefer to use their real names online, most Internet users prefer to identify themselves by means of pseudonyms, which reveal varying amounts of personally identifiable information.
- Communities Directory - The Communities Directory, A Comprehensive Guide to Intentional Community provides listing of intentional communities primarily from North America but also from around the world. The Communities Directory has both an (online) and a print edition, which is published based on data from the website.
- Online Bomberman - Online Bomberman (not to be confused with Bomberman Online) is an online game developed by Mgame, Hudson, and Fullerton and was released on the PC in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. As of August 2006, communities only exist in Korea and Japan.