Community Building On The Web: Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities '' by Amy Jo Kim

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[ISBN: 0201874849] Nine core strategies form the foundation of Kim's recommendations for site builders, serving as the organizational backbone of this book. The strategies generally make sense, and they seem to apply to all kinds of communities, cyber and otherwise. (One advocates the establishment of regular events around which community life can organize itself.) Some parts of Kim's message may seem like common sense, but such a coherent discussion of what defines a community and how it can be made to thrive is still helpful.
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Read this book to help crystallize your thinking about community building, and to review strategies that work for real sites already. --DavidWall
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The DavidWall that posted the above is not the same DavidWall that created the wiki Homepage for that name, because I had never heard of this book until I just happened to click the backlink on my wiki HomePage. --DavidWall
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The book is in any case out of print and from 1999. (R. Naylor 10/19/05)
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