The Admin Zone Forums
- Online resource for administrators of bulletin board communities. All topics dealing with running and setting up a forum community are discussed.
- http://www.theadminzone.com

First Monday - Phantom authority, self–selective recruitment and retention of members in virtual communities: The case of Wikipedia
- Peer-reviewed journal article by Andrea Ciffolilli.
- http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_12/ciffolilli/

First Monday - A Social Network Caught in the Web
- 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.
- http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_6/adamic/

How To Kill Community Networks
- By Doug Schuler. Essay describing three common means for the downfall of community networks.
- http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/tno/january-1996.html#schuler

CNet.com: Will Media Giants Bulldoze Communities?
- News Analysis by CNET observing how Disney and Time Warner, by building enhanced entertainment sites, threaten topical online communities.
- http://news.com.com/2100-1023-223726.html

VirtualCommunities Start4all
- Directory of resources and tools for building online communities. Rich content for analysis of virtual communities. With a list of popular communities and vendors in this field.
- http://www.start4all.com/?A=page&subject=virtualcommunities

Building an Online Community: Just Add Water
- The dos-and-don'ts of building a website community by Matt Haughey, the creator of MetaFilter.
- http://www.digital-web.com/articles/building_an_online_community/

About.com: Community Online
- Editors' web site picks for fostering an online community and personalizing web sites.
- http://webdesign.about.com/od/community/

Community Networks: Putting People First
- Editorial by Michael Mulquin. Discusses the role of Community Networks in delvering new information and communications technologies to UK residents. Most content is applicable elsewhere as well.
- http://www.iscommunications.co.uk/media/PeopleFirst.pdf

Benton Foundation: Community Building
- Detailed articles, tools, and resources about community building. Topics range from software recommendations to profiles of successful communities.
- http://www.benton.org/publibrary/toolkits/community.html

Building Community: Online Resources
- Has papers, presentations, stories, indexs, and surveys.
- http://bcn.boulder.co.us/community/resources/center.html

Xgencia - Best Practice in Online Communities
- UK online community specialists providing planning, RFP and ROI analysis services. Requires Flash.
- http://www.xgencia.com

CornerWays: Community Development, Training, and Moderationn
- Online community development company that provides online community building, consulting and design services worldwide.
- http://www.cornerways.com

The Mailing List Gurus Page
- A resource for finding, participating in, creating, and managing Internet mailing lists, from the authors of The Internet For Dummies
- http://lists.gurus.com/

NTT Social Communication Laboratory
- Aims to develop a social information infrastructure and create a new lifestyle for interpersonal communication via the Internet.
- http://www.kecl.ntt.co.jp/csl/

Salon.com Technology: Netscape to community: You're evicted
- As Netcenter's forums fall casualty to AOL-merger cutbacks, participants mourn.
- http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/04/06/netcenter/index.html

The Virtual Communities (VirCom) Project
- 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.)
- http://www.informatik.umu.se/nlrg/vircom.html

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.
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/clubaboutonlinecommunities/

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' servic
- http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/04/16/aol_community/index.html

Design Principles for Online Communities
- Academic paper by sociologist Peter Kollock, drawing upon community design principles by Axelrod (1984), Ostrom (1990), Godwin (1994).
- http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/kollock/papers/design.htm

Full Circle Associates
- Provides strategic facilitation, online community development, marketing, and project management services. Includes a listing of online community building and virtual group facilitation/moderation resources.
- http://www.fullcirc.com/

Community Networking Movement
- "Realizing that communication and information are increasingly dependent on networked digital information, community activists all over the world are developing community computer network systems."
- http://www.scn.org/ip/commnet/

Suite101.com: Communication in Cyberspace
- Articles, links and discussions on various programs used to communicate on the internet. Covers messaging, conferencing, discussion forums, telephony, chat and email.
- http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/9189

Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community
- Essay by former Wells conferencing manager John Coate explaining what happens in an online social environment.
- http://www.cervisa.com/innkeeping

Peter Kollock
- Associate professor of the University of California, Los Angeles. Includes curriculum vita, course syllabi and recent papers on online communities and markets, which is his current research.
- http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/kollock/

CommunityAnswers.com
- Questions and answers and advice for online community builders, users, moderators, managers, and owners.
- http://communityanswers.com/

WELL Conferencing Team - Community Building and Hosts Manual
- 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.
- http://www.well.com/confteam/

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

Online Community Building Concepts
- List of fundamental principles to consider when starting a new community site.
- http://www.well.com/user/gail/community.tips.html

Fragmented by Technologies: A Community in Cyberspace
- Early academic paper studying the human interaction within an online community. The author observed antinomy, atomisation, carnival, decentralization, disembodiment, impersonality, intensification and lurking.
- http://www.helsinki.fi/science/optek/1997/n1/davis.txt

Community is Dead; Long Live Mega-Collaboration
- 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 ine
- http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9708b.html

Membership Agreements
- Article by lawyer Ivan Hoffman discussing membership agreements and resolving issues that arise from them. Applicable only to U.S. Law.
- http://www.ivanhoffman.com/membership.html

Communitybuilding.com
- The secret to success on the web is to build a community, not just a web site. Here one can find tools and tips to make a web site interactive and, as a result, a place of community.
- http://communitybuilding.com/