COMMUNITY BUILDING
SITES
The Art of Hosting Good Conversations Online 
A paper by Howard Rheingold outlining tips for effectively moderating web conversations.
Brave New Neighborhoods: 'Net Communities
Tripod columnist Janice MacDonald offers her perspective on community-building.
BUILDER.COM: Building Online Communities
BUILDER.COM article on community building, with case studies of sites such as Cafe Utne and Talk City.
Building Web Communities: Part 1 of 3
The first in a 3-part Anchor series on building web communities. Why do people join communities? How can you become an effective host? Explore these questions through the work of three community experts: Amy Jo Kim, Marc Rettig, and Howard Rheingold.
CommunityBuilding.com
A site giving advice on how to build an online community.
Invoking Law as a Basis for Identity in Cyberspace
This article discusses the de facto laws of the Internet, the laws that real-world institutions try to place on it, and how the identity of participants affect and are affected by these factors.
Metaphors and the Net: Social Life
Article outlining some of the social metaphors we make use of in webspace.
Secrets of Successful Web Communities
This Web Techniques article by Amy Jo Kim offers "9 Timeless Design Principles for Community-Building."
TechWeb Internet: Howard Rheingold Interview
TechWeb's David Sims interviews Howard Rheingold on the demise of Electric Minds and his thoughts on community building on the Web.
ARTICLES
The Age of Access
We are entering an age in which corporations will concentrate on becoming an essential part of a customer's life cycle rather than building particular products. Without much debate, community and life are becoming bounded by commercial activity. (3/13/2000 at The Industry Standard)
Amy Jo Kim on Community
A short interview with Amy Jo Kim, community-building guru. (11/2/1999 at builder.com)
Building Online Communities
Advice on building online communities: exist for a reason; users draw other users; users will surprise you; etc. (10/21/2002 at O'Reilly Network)
Can Robert Johnson Bring More Blacks Online?
BET.com, developed by Black Entertainment Television, should launch in November 1999 as a portal for African-Americans. Competitors for black web users welcome the competition, and the people it will bring to the web. (10/6/1999 at Salon.com)
A Chat With ... Let's make a toast to the cyber-post
Interview with Steve Champeon, moderator of the webdesign-l mailing list, with a look at the nature of communities on the Internet. (1/3/2000 at The News & Observer)
Crowd Control: The Feed Dialog on Designing Online Communities
Community "experts" - including Jeff Veen of Wired Digital, Heather Macdonald of Gurl.com and Andrew Shapiro, author of The Control Revolution - discuss the good and bad of online communities, and their coexistence with offline life. (2/23/2000 at Feed)
Internet Beckons Blacks Online
Forrester Research Inc. predicts the increase in black Internet use in 1999 will be 42%, higher than for other demographic groups; numerous companies are looking to cash in. (10/18/1999 at American City Business Journals)
Pack 'Em in With Good Chat
The director of communities for Salon.com gives advice on using chat and bulletin boards to build community on a website. (11/15/1999 at Internet World)
Virtual Community: An Idea Out of Control
The author critiques the concept of community that many business leaders feel is an integral part of an estrategy. (11/8/1999 at Lighthouse on the Web)
What's Wrong With Newspaper Discussion Boards
Advice on building a sense of community, and improving the perception of your newspaper, through discussion boards on your site. (9/6/2000 at Editor & Publisher Interactive)
Yahoo-GeoCities Shadowed by Web Publishing Woes
Analysts don't think that home page communities can survive on their own. (1/27/2000 at News.com)
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