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Nonprofits Building Online Communities: Transforming Assumptions Into Success

http://www.benton.org/publibrary/practice/community/assumptions.html

Companies budget huge sums to perfect online community strategies as they seek to build customer relationships that create loyal consumers. In a nonprofit context, the "customer" takes the form of a constituent, advocate, grantee, funder, member, board member, or citizen.
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Peer-to-Peer DevCenter

http://www.oreillynet.com/p2p/

Suddenly, all manner of companies are declaring themselves P2P. So what exactly is P2P? This O'Reilly Network service gives a good insight into this, with useful things like a directory of P2P companies
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virtualcommunities.start4all.com

http://virtualcommunities.start4all.com/

This is a great collection of links about virtual communities, communities of practice, cyberculture, learning communities, etc.
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Communities of Practice

http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/cop/index.shtml

The Community Intelligence Labs crew offers community practitioners these webpages as a meeting place, in which we can accelerate the spread of best practices and share points of view on tough issues.
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Connecting: The Promise of Interactive Websites and Online Community

http://www.fullcirc.com/connecting.htm

Online connections and online community can provide us bridges between ideas, cultures, worlds, time and space. Nancy White explores the meaning of connections.
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Design Principles for Online Communities

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/kollock/papers/design.htm

Peter Kollock from UCLA argues that social interaction and organization in online communities is not an issue that can be ignored, nor is the challenge simply to design a better user interface. But it is also incorrect to say that there is nothing much one can do – there are important steps that can be taken to encourage the development of successful online worlds. To this end, he present a useful checklist.
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Facilitating and Hosting a Virtual Community

http://www.fullcirc.com/community/communityfacilitation.htm

Online communities and virtual workgroups do not always "happen" spontaneously. Usually they require care and nurturing. Nancy White discuss the concept of online facilitation.
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Facilitation FAQ

http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/vcfaq/facfaq1.shtml

George Pór of Community Intelligence Labs has written an excellent FAQ on roles and responsibilities in online groups in which he lists the key roles in facilitating online forums and describes the responsibilities of each.
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Lisa Kimball

http://www.tmn.com/~lisa/

Managing Virtual Teams; Developing the Team's Communications Strategy; Team Effectiveness Strategies; Choosing Media for Team Communication; Ten Key Elements to Manage to Make Virtual Teams More Effective; Boundaryless Facilitation, ...
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Online Community Resources

http://www.fullcirc.com/commresources.htm

Nancy White of Full Circle's excellent collection of resources.
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rheingold's brainstorms

http://www.rheingold.com/

Virtual Community pioneer Howard Rheingold's home.
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Traffick

http://www.traffick.com/

Their mission is to search out portal features and tools and provide the user with timely, informative and helpful analysis on the world of portals. "We're here to make the Web a smaller place."
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The Virtual Agora: Online Ethical Dialogues and Professional Communities

http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_7/tidwell/

The Greek agora, or market place, was where citizens met to discuss and debate topics of importance. The agora has been resurrected in electronic form, giving voice to many. Like the agora of old this largely unmediated forum provides important new avenues for debate. Examined here is the use of World Wide Web technology in fostering and sustaining ethical debates within and between professional communities. First Monday article by Alan Tidwell.
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Conferencing Software for the Web

http://thinkofit.com/webconf/

A comprehensive guide to software that powers discussions on the Web. Forum Software - BBS Software - Internet and Intranet Groupware - Software for Virtual Communities - Message Boards - Collaborative Workgroups
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Online Moderator Guidelines and Community-Building Tips

http://www.well.com/confteam/hosting.html

By Gail Ann Williams, Director of Conferencing, The WELL. "What's So Special About Online Conversation? It's a very human activity, that's for sure."
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The future of Web conferencing

http://thinkofit.com/webconf/wcfuture.htm

Author and consultant David Woolley takes a detailed look at the future of online communities, focusing on the benefits and challenges of various Web-based conferencing models. It's a great resource for Web builders who want to look more closely at the technical issues surrounding the development of online communities.
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