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	Online Communities - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The term "virtual community" is attributed to the book of the same title by Howard Rheingold in 1993.
		The nature of those communities and communications is rather diverse, and the benefits that Rheingold envisioned are not necessarily realized, or pursued, by many.
		Online Community Report - news and trends in online collaboration.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /online_communities.htm (675 words)

	Building Online Communities: Transforming Assumptions Into Success (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In this context, an online community can be a powerful tool to bring constituents together to share their concern for an issue.
		Many nonprofits believe that if some activity is online, "it" will be cheaper, "it" will happen faster and "it" will be easier, no matter what "it" is. This often leads to mistaken assumptions that cause nonprofits to miscalculate the amount of planning and effort needed to build and sustain an online community.
		Or not using an online community at all of the bulk of your intended audience does not have the technology capacity to participate.
	www.benton.org /publibrary/practice/community/assumptions.html (2746 words)

	Design Principles for Online Communities: Kollock
		These features meant that those individuals most affected by community rules, and who possessed the local knowledge necessary to craft effective rules, were able to create and modify a set of rules that were well-matched to their goals and environment.
		Thus, it was important that community members have access to low-cost conflict resolution mechanisms.
		Online worlds can eliminate the threat of theft and many forms of scarcity, but without risk online communities will be dull and will not provide the possibility for the development of high levels of trust.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /soc/faculty/kollock/papers/design.htm (2212 words)

	O'Reilly Network: Building Online Communities
		The community itself is not the only draw, in most cases, but it is a primary attractor.
		Community members will continually surprise you, especially if you've never really analyzed an online community before.
		Besides letting community leaders and members perform administrative work (content production, content moderation, software development, content rating, the donation of hardware or bandwidth fees), don't forget that the community has a stake in its own future.
	www.oreillynet.com /pub/a/network/2002/10/21/community.html (1024 words)

	Common Craft - Social Design for the Web: What is an Online Community?
		An online community is a group of people with common interests who use the Internet (web sites, email, instant messaging, etc) to communicate, work together and pursue their interests over time.
		Online communities are “communities” first and “online” second.
		You live in a geographic community, you work within a professional community, you may go to church with a religious community and your friends represent a social community.
	www.commoncraft.com /archives/000208.html (623 words)

	Online Communities at UMBC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Online communities are any group of people who communicate with each other via computers.
		Online communities are supported by listservs, bulletin boards, chats, MUDs, MOOS or combinations of these software programs along with web pages.
		The communication needs of this new and diverse population of users are different from the factual exchange of information by the traditional computer users.
	www.ifsm.umbc.edu /communities (295 words)

	Online Communities -- February '00
		Consider charging for community use only if members will be discussing confidential information, if your site has adult content, or if yours is a very specialized professional community, such as a site for accountants or insurance professionals, that offers information that would ordinarily be considered of a professional nature.
		Communication and community are almost synonymous, so some sort of interactivity is almost critical for good community.
		Developing a well-conceived customized online community can take from a couple of weeks to many months, and the cost can range from a thousand to many hundreds of thousands of dollars, depending on the level of sophistication required.
	www.writeedge.com /articles/onlinecommunity.asp (2467 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Technology \| Online communities get real
		A study of online communities by UK think-tank The Work Foundation has found that the web is much more localised, more honest and less chaotic than original predictions thought.
		The notion that virtual communities would allow people to unite in a global village, creating false online personas and moving rapidly from one internet community to another are not being borne out.
		And people power is also being helped by online communities such as epinions.com, a site which allows consumers to give their views on any products they have bought.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/technology/2946188.stm (609 words)

	Online and Virtual Communities: Annotated Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		We should conceptualise the term "community" as having a different definition which is relational to the differences between an offline community and an online community one.
		Phish Net was able to use their online community to produce a newsletter handed out at Phish concerts, to influence the wording of a Phish song, and to influence the behaviour of people following the band from venue to venue.
		Bromberg goes on to discuss whether the idea of online communities is a symptom to or response of the post-modern condition as described by Lyotard and Harvey.
	www.socio.demon.co.uk /topicVC.html (5193 words)

	Online Communities
		This confusion is most pronounced in the ubiquitous ‘virtual community,’ where, by paying a fee or typing a password, anyone who visits a web site automatically becomes a “member” of the communityGroups of people become community, or so it would seem, by the flourish of a researcher’s pen.
		While many of us are concerned with the loss of communal spaces and ties that broaden one’s sense of self beyond the “me” or “I” and into the “we” and “us” (Putnam, 1995), less clear are the educational advantages of a community approach in terms of learning curricular content.
		This seminar is designed to review and analyze in detail theories and research related to the building of online communities so that we can instantiate a set of design commitments into actual web-based designs, and then to research their effectiveness.
	inkido.indiana.edu /onlinecom (1507 words)

	Online Communities & Communication - Winter 2005
		At the same time, I think as online communities have spread to the layman, the emphasis has moved from displaying cool avatars and uniqueness to increasing efficiency of communication.
		Even in many online games, though you can spend some time choosing or creating an avatar, there are always options to skip the steps or get through them really quickly to actually start playing the game.
		it is a community where each member has their own page, can decorate it with whatever they wish but they can purchase more decorations and templates for very cheap prices.
	www.online.justinecassell.com /blog (3542 words)

	Welcome to Communities Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Stay in the loop - get yourself involved with community groups and organisations via our website and engage yourself with the many events and activities happening in the ACT and surrounding region.
		Our website is provided free of charge to any group or entity that offers a community benefit to the ACT region.
		The Tips for adding events/meetings for Communities Online registered users will provide you with more information relating to this.
	www.actco.org.au (204 words)

	Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy
		And that's a different kind of thing than the old pattern of "online community." I have this image of two hula hoops, the old two-hula hoop world, where my real life is over here, and my online life is over there, and there wasn't much overlap between them.
		These kinds of ubiquity, both everyone is online, and everyone who's in a room can be online together at the same time, can lead to new patterns.
		And when the community understands that you've been doing it and you're faking, that is seen as a huge and violent transgression.
	www.shirky.com /writings/group_enemy.html (8599 words)

	Center for Children & Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Online communications tools—from video conferencing and teleconferencing to Internet discussion forums—opened up new possibilities for how people work, study, communicate and collaborate.
		In this project, one of the first to implement online communications in professional development at the K-12 level, we used the Internet to bring together communities of teachers interested in mathematics reform.
		Since then, we've both investigated efforts to use these communications tools in classrooms to help meet students' educational needs and helped schools, community organizations and corporations devise and evaluate pilot programs that take advantage of online communities.
	www2.edc.org /CCT/research_online.asp (597 words)

	Community
		A community is a group of people with varying degrees of expertise in which the experts attempt to help the novices improve their skills.
		Given the Internet's raw communication capability and huge pool of potential friends, if you want to make a really great friend you just need a means of finding someone who shares your interests and then a means of collaborating with him or her.
		The best systems to support online communities, on the other hand, are built in such a way that genuinely hard things are left to a standard commercial relational database management system.
	philip.greenspun.com /panda/community (5188 words)

	Joel on Software - Building Communities with Software
		Make a coffee shop without very many chairs, as Starbucks does, and people will carry their coffee back to their lonely rooms, instead of staying around and socializing like they do in the fantasy TV coffeehouse of "Friends," a program we watch because an ersatz third place is less painful than none at all.
		The idea of improving the community by requiring registration is an old one, and it's appropriate, I think, for the Echo/Well type of conferences where you're creating a network of people as much as you're discussing a topic, and you charge people cash money to belong.
		Creating community, in any case, is a noble goal, because it's sorely missing for so many of us.
	www.joelonsoftware.com /articles/BuildingCommunitieswithSo.html (3614 words)

	CS 6470 - The Design of Online Communities
		In addition to the required reading, there is at least one online community to examine for each class.
		While students will not actually found a new community as part of this class, students whose designs are promising may be invited to do so either as an independent study or as sponsored research over the summer or next fall.
		Online Communities taught by Jennifer Preece at University of Maryland, Baltimore County
	www.cc.gatech.edu /classes/AY2001/cs6470_fall (1309 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Poor Richard's Building Online Communities: Create a Web Community for Your Business, Club, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On-line communities work for the same reasons traditional communities work-because of the relationships members form, the information they gather, and the entertainment they view.
		Such communities are perfect for Scout groups, professional associations, sports clubs, schools, fraternities and sororities, families spread around the globe, and any other group of two or more people who want to share information and experiences.
		There is also a wealth of more important, timeless information such as the purposes behind building online communities and the various manner of acceptable and unacceptable behaviour for each type of community.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0966103297?v=glance (1517 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Online Communities: Designing Usability and Supporting Sociability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Beginning with basic concepts of community and online activities, Preece moves on to survey research on the use of virtual spaces, and then focuses on techniques to design and build optimal cybervillages for given needs and people.
		Preece has a long section on online education but misses a main advantage: new opportunities for people to teach (the offline world already has a lot of opportunities for learning at any time of day or night).
		I was recently given a new task at work to manage an online community of practice (for project managers) at my global company, and I was hoping that this book would offer some new insights and ideas.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471805998?v=glance (1592 words)

	Hotscripts.com :: PHP :: Online Communities
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		It's a thriving community ov oer 16 Thousand members, and so there are always people online willing to help.
		community with the opportunity to discuss and share knowledge via the on-line joomla chat room and knowledgebase.
	www.hotscripts.com /PHP/Online_Communities (626 words)

	HP Books: Technical books: Online Communities: Commerce, Community Action, and The Virtual University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Online Communities brings together leading experts on online communities of every kind, commercial and non-commercial, sharing their experience and research on key issues such as: How are online communities built?
		This book focuses on online communities in commerce, the non-profit sector, the open source community, and in higher education.
		Discover how commerce affects the social interaction of community members; compare alternative models for online community organization; and learn powerful lessons from the contributors' experiences in a wide variety of online community-building projects.
	www.hp.com /hpbooks/prentice/ptr_0130323829.html (645 words)

	Open Directory - Computers: Internet: Cyberspace: Online Communities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Online Node - A community aiming for multiculturalism by providing members with webpages, guestbooks, journals, chatrooms, message boards, private messaging and games.
		Rogues Tavern Online Community - Online community of international rogues, scoundrels and rascals.
		BusinessWeek: Internet Communities - Surfers are losing interest on website content and want now to settle in online communities.
	dmoz.org /Computers/Internet/Cyberspace/Online_Communities (641 words)

	Proverbs 31 Ministries-Online Community
		The purpose of the Online Community Ministry is to provide a place of encouragement and support for women who want to be "the woman of noble character" as described in Proverbs 31:10-31.
		Everyone participating Online Community Ministry member will not only be able to participate in the Online Discussion Groups with access to the Members Only Web Pages, but they will also receive better information about Proverbs 31 Ministries and uplifting articles through the P31 Woman monthly printed magazine.
		Each discussion group or cell group has leaders or a leadership team who monitor and lead the discussion so that the discussion is honoring to God and encourages all the women to be a "Proverbs 31 Woman".
	proverbs31.gospelcom.net /online (441 words)

	Working to Halt Online Abuse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		WHOA is a volunteer organization founded in 1997 to fight online harassment through education of the general public, education of law enforcement personnel, and empowerment of victims.
		We've also formulated voluntary policies which we encourage online communities to adopt in order to create safe and welcoming environments for all internet users.
		Our volunteers work with people currently experiencing online harassment, and help others to learn how to avoid such harassment or minimize its impact if it does occur.
	www.haltabuse.org (205 words)

	ItrainOnline: Strategic Use - Building Online Communities
		Whether the goal is an online meeting or the creation of a global network, the resources collected here will help groups: choose the appropriate collaboration tools, develop facilitation techniques, and plan a strategy for successfully working together online.
		This module is designed to help learners develop a shared understanding of Communities of Practice; understand the role of the facilitator; develop skills in facilitating online CoPs; learn how to set up an online CoP; develop an action plan for facilitating a CoP.
		This online course takes users of the Dgroups discussion platform through the steps involved in registering as a Dgroups user and participating in the online dialogues on development issues that are hosted on the system.
	www.itrainonline.org /itrainonline/english/communication.shtml (1280 words)

	PMI Online Community Homepage - Community Homepage
		The PMI Online Community homepage is made available to visitors of
		Confidence knowing each Community Site is secure and accessible only by users who have permission...
		Community Site access is granted to users based on permissions mantained by the Project Management Institute.
	communities.pmi.org /home.jsp (270 words)

	Online Community Toolkit
		Five Ways You Can Prevent Online Community Flames- Sue Boettcher.
		Online Facilitation From a Distance Education Perspective - Moderating tricks from the distance education mavens!
		Communities of Practice Links - since more an more CoPs are "distributed" and utilize online interaction strategies, we've added this section to the Toolkit.
	www.fullcirc.com /community/communitymanual.htm (893 words)

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