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Learning in Communities of Inquiry: A Review of the Literature
critical review of the community of inquiry framework (Garrison et al.)
Building on foundations: creating an online community
developing a functioning online community
Twelve best practices for online customer communities
Dion Hinchcliff's thoughts on customer communities.
We Are the Stimulus
"...at moments of national crisis we need to do more than just tell people to go shopping. Now it's time for the Community Organizer-In-Chief to tell the American people to turn to each other and go Organizing."
craigslist classifieds: jobs, housing, personals, for sale, services, community, events, forums
Struggling with Community
Miguel asks if the purpose of blogging is to create community, then quotes Scott Peck: "One of the characteristics of true community is that the group secrets, whatever they are, become known - they come out to where they can be dealt with."
YouTube
Upload up to 100MB videos and embed them in your sites. Now with dedicated channels for nonprofits.
Virtual Communities / Social Media
Howard Rheingold's wonderful syllabus exploring the consequences "when technology and community collide"
Urban Sociology
the structure, functioning and transformation of cities
Zoogmo - Your Online Backup Community: Unlimited. Free. Secure. Automatic
Backup your data to the computers of your trusted friends and collegues. Free and unlimited storage (assuming you have unlimited friends).
CommunityWalk: mapping made easy
lets you create informational, interactive maps that you can embed in your web site.
FON
Share your wireless Internet access at home and, in
return, enjoy free WiFi wherever you find another Fonero’s Access
Point.
Robert Putnam's interveiws of nearly 30,000 Americans concludes that the greater the diversity in a commmunity, the fewer people vote and the less they volunteer, the less they give to charity and work on community projects.
The results are rather jarring at a time when it is fashionable to sing the praises of diverse communities. But the tension created by diversity is also important for creativity and learning.
Charles P. Nelson
: " Somehow, while maintaining respect f
Seth Godin calls the Online Community Organizer the #1 's job of the future.
More support for the view that our ability to communicate, to
nurture group formation and action using online tools is going to be an
important 21st century skill.
A good collection of instructions about building social networks: offer something of value to members, tend to them personally, and encourage word of mouth.
The common pitfalls in designing social web applications and how to avoid them is remarkably similar to the care and feeding of the communities they support. Also see:
Part 2
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Part 3
Wikia - Wikis from Wikia - Join the best wiki communities
offers free MediaWiki hosting and lets site owners add wiki elements to their sites and brand them to match. Lots of niche community microsites.
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