Articles, links and discussions on various programs used to communicate on the internet. Covers messaging, conferencing, discussion forums, telephony, chat and email.
"Realizing that communication and information are increasingly dependent on networked digital information, community activists all over the world are developing community computer network systems."
Provides strategic facilitation, online community development, marketing, and project management services. Includes a listing of online community building and virtual group facilitation/moderation resources.
Academic paper by sociologist Peter Kollock, drawing upon community design principles by Axelrod (1984), Ostrom (1990), Godwin (1994).
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."
Whenever you provide people with the ability to communicate online then community develops. This club is about the development and management of online communities.
Five PhD students out to study virtual communities, their rise and development, evolution, meaning and its effect to traditional organizations. (Some papers are in Swedish.)
As Netcenter's forums fall casualty to AOL-merger cutbacks, participants mourn.
Aims to develop a social information infrastructure and create a new lifestyle for interpersonal communication via the Internet.
A resource for finding, participating in, creating, and managing Internet mailing lists, from the authors of The Internet For Dummies
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Culture
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