15 Examples Of Thriving Online Communities – FeverBee – The Online Community Guide

Interesting roundup!

Crafting Your Blog’s About Page

Is your about page important? Yes. Read how to craft a great about page!

Kristina Halvorson TummelVision 38: Content Strategy and Tactics

Web radio show about using content to engage people and start conversations.

A List Apart: Articles: Anonymity and Online Community: Identity Matters

This older article provides an understanding of why online identity matters and offers six steps to help you build stronger online communities. In the world of Facebook and Twitter integration, this may not hold as true but many mainstream sites still …

Online community building tips from an expert

Video Interview with Lyle Fong on gaming communities, consumer behavior, and how to make people want to keep coming back.

10 steps to building successful online communities | Community Management | Blaise Grimes-Viort

An overview on strong, successful, community management

Thoughts on Ning Exodus and GROU.PS, SocialGo, Spruz, Grouply & others | The Blog | Emre Sokullu

An overview of Ning competitors from the founder of Grou.ps

eModeration Blog: Roundtable on Communities of Purpose (8) – Share and Help

Teaching members to share and help each other in online communities creates the magic that you need for a healthy, growing community. How? Read these experienced community managers' thoughts on the matter.

Ten Things Social Media Can’t Do – Advertising Age – DigitalNext

I love social media and while it can help save the world; it isn't the solution for everything. Social media isn't the answer for everything.

Eight steps to community engagement | WiserEarth Blog

This long time favorite of mine truly gives the best eight steps to engaging your community.

How To Build an Online Community for your Business | womenspost.ca

High-level, concrete advice for businesses who are thinking of starting an online community.

Five ways to foster self-governance in online communities | Quiip

Presenting the 5 R's: Rules, Reinforcement, Reporting, Recognition, and Rewards

The Evaporative Cooling Effect « Bumblebee Labs Blog

A thoughtful essay on how communities "cool" in a series of chain reactions when members lose interest and leave.

xkcd: Online Communities 2

A cartoon map of planet Earth, reimagined into a snarky view of online communities (mostly as large online community services).

How 7 Startups Are Building Their Online Communities

Pandora, Shwowp, Seesmic, Disqus, Posterous, and Curate.us — the inside look at how they built their startup communities. Via Mashable.

Best Online Collaboration Tools 2010 – Robin Good’s Collaborative Map – MindMeister Mind Map

For the second year running Robin Good's MindMeister mind map of the best online collaboration tools. He crowdsourced to get the list, as was last year's version,  this is probably the best place to start looking for online collaboration tools.

Guidelines for Group Collaboration and Emergence « emergent by design

An excellent (blog) summary of Adaptive Software Development by Highsmith which "approaches the team-building and collaboration process from the perspective of complex adaptive systems theory, and contains some interesting insights in evolutiona…

Cooperation Commons |

Interdisciplinary study of cooperation and collective action. Mostly research summaries and some awesome resources. Howard Rheingold is involved at some level, he could have initiated the project. Email contact person for membership, resources viewabl…

Affinity spaces vs communities of practice « media/anthropology

Short concise discussion/blog post on the difference between communities of practice and affinity spaces as defined by James Gee. CultueConductor would be an affinity space, I believe?

Rhizomatic Education : Community as Curriculum @ Dave’s Educational Blog

Dave Cormier's original blog post on Rhizomatic Education aka Community as Curriculum. Provides a good overview of how community's can com together to create their own framework for learning. Simple concept but game-changing at same time. Als…