Online community builder, acknowledged expert on social and cultural implications of cyberspace. Includes informative articles and advice and commentary on current online communities.

Comprehensive news repository and e-mail newsletter about the business of online communities.

Provides strategic facilitation, online community development, marketing, and project management services. Includes a listing of online community building and virtual group facilitation/moderation resources.

Online book by Fay Sudweeks et al. Addresses the mutual influences between information technology and group information and development. Discusses network norms and experiences and the essential nature of network communications.

A resource for finding, participating in, creating, and managing Internet mailing lists, from the authors of The Internet For Dummies

Academic paper by sociologist Peter Kollock, drawing upon community design principles by Axelrod , Ostrom , Godwin .

Article by Merrill Morris of Indiana University. Discusses theory of communication on the Internet and its effects as a mass media.

"Realizing that communication and information are increasingly dependent on networked digital information, community activists all over the world are developing community computer network systems."

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.

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.

Online community development company that provides online community building, consulting and design services worldwide.

Aims to develop a social information infrastructure and create a new lifestyle for interpersonal communication via the Internet.

Article by lawyer Ivan Hoffman discussing membership agreements and resolving issues that arise from them. Applicable only to U.S. Law.

Gail Ann Williams writes about building conversation and community in online environments, adapted from the WELL Host Manuals.

Detailed strategy for creating virtual special interest groups.