Online Community/Social Media SUPER List
by Shara Karasic
Start exploring online community here. I am always collecting useful online community/social media/social networking sites, articles, resources, and experts, and I hope others find them useful. I will be updating this list regularly. If you have ideas or suggestions for this page, please let me know at shara.karasic[at]gmail.com.
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Community Articles & Resources
(71)Community Jobs (8)
Community Legal (3)
Community Stats/Participation/Measurement (4)
Community Tools/Providers/Platforms (31)
Cross-Community Applications (9)
Social Media & Online Community Personalities/Academics/Experts (34)
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Alibaba - get international trade leadsBiznik - business networking for indie professionals
BizToo - social networking site for global entrepreneursCambrian House - crowdsourcing, business networking, get help with your business ideas
Cofoundr - find a co-founder for your entrepreneurial ventureEcademy FastPitch Networking - business networking, PR help for businessGOBIGnetwork - community of startup companieskonnects - communities around specific industriesLinkedIn - uber online networkingIdea Cafe - business forumsIntuit Accountants - Intuit's resource for accounting and Quickbooks practitionersJIGSAW - share business contactsJumpUp - from Intuit, focuses on startupsOpenBusiness - platform to share and develop innovate Open Business ideas - entrepreneurial ideas which are built around openness, free services and free accessOriented - global network of international professionals interested in Asian businesses and culturesQuickBooks Community - from IntuitQuicken Community - from Intuitryze SBDC Community - community for Association of Small Business Development Centers membersSmallBusiness.com Soflow.com spoke - find out who you know at various companiesStartupNation Startupping - community for Internet entrepreneursviadeo - business networking w/ European slantVisible Path - manage professional network and connect to corporate networkXING (used to be OpenBC)Work.com
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citeulike - academics' social network around the academic papers they're readingGreatSchools.net - parents review schoolsH2O Playlist - shared lists of readings around topics of intellectual interestTapped In - community for education professionalsWikiEducator - collaborative community for planning education projects linked with the development of free content, as well open education resources projects
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40 social networking sites: Web 2.0 Directory 55 social bookmarking sites - bloggers 120 experts on social networking, communities - ventureblogalist's thought leader picksAll the digg style applications: The list Anonymity and Online Commmunity: Identity Matters The Art of Creating a Community by Guy Kawasaki The Art of Hosting Good Conversations Online - by Howard RheingoldBest Engaging Communities blog Building Online Communities - from O'ReillyBuilding Online Communities: Transforming Assumptions Into Success - from the Benton FoundationBuilding an Online Community - by Shara Karasicciteulike - tag: community The Community Spirit of Yahoo's Fake The Coming Age of Lying Avatars - Salon article about social trust as physical interactions move to online virtual worldsCommunity Building on the Web - by Amy Jo KimCommunity Group Therapy Comparision of top blogging platforms - Wordpress, Typepad, Movable Type, Blogger Community Guy connectable dots - Gail William's blog Customer service communities at eBay - research paper compares customer behavior before and after joining a customer communitydanah boyd Do Customer Communities Increase Revenues by Active Customers? - Dec. 2006 Harvard Business Review articleEnhancing Online Community Interaction - Communibuild Email group: Betty Ray's online community email group - for community professionals to share best practices Email group: e-mint - Association of Online Community Professionals - UK-based Email group: online facilitation at Yahoo Groups Facebook Case Study: Offline behavior drives online usage Facebook's Critical Success Factors Facebook Group: Community Manager, Advocate, and Evangelist - started by Jeremiah Owyang - "Is it your career or job to participate in online communitities on behalf of an organization? Join your peers here."Facebook Group: Online Community Roundtable - started by Bill Johnston of Forum One - "A group for those working with online communities in the commercial and non-profit spaces. Specificially, a group for those charged with community strategy and management."Facilitating and Hosting a Virtual Community by Nancy White The Future of Communities blog TechCrunch: Google OpenSocial How to Be a Great Host - A List Apart Hosting: Online Moderator Guidelines and Community-Building Tips - by Gail Williams, The WELLHow and Why Wikipedia Works: An Interview with Angela Beesley, Elisabeth Bauer, and Kizu Naoko The International Journal of Web-Based Communities Habitat Chronicles - MMORPGSHow Social Networks Work: The Puzzle of Exhaust Data - phatic communication, so ubiquitous in Twitter and Facebook, doesn't get much said, but gets lots done - by Grant McGrackenHow to Hire an Online Community Manager - top 25 questions to Ask a potential community hire by Shara KarasicLife With Alacrity List of White Label (Applications you can Rebrand) Social Networking Platforms Lithium's Top 20 Social Networks Many to Many - a group weblog on social softwareMicrosoft's social computing group musings of a social architect TheNewPRWiki OC Expert Interview - Joi Podgorny - tweens and children communitiesOnline Community Report by Jim Cashel, Forum One Online Community Toolkit/Full Circle paidContent - often has social media economic newsThe Participation Ladder... Pop Art Social Networking List Research on Social Network Sites - list of social network publications compiled by danah boyd - i can't wait to dig through these!Social Intelligence blog Social Media Club - "a community for the champions of social media and those seeking to learn"Social Networking Leaves Confines of Computer - NYTimes Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship /a> The Social Software Blog's Social Networking Services Meta List Social Software Building Blocks by Gene Smith - an interesting honeycomb diagram of design for sociabilitysocialmeter - track how your site is doing on social media sitesSome Community Tips for 2007 - seven tips on how to run a successful communityTechSoup's social networking list the virtual handshake blog Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace - by danah boydThe Virtual Community - online version of Howard Rheingold's bookWeb Strategy (Advanced): Applying a Social Computing Strategy to the entire Product Lifecycle - Jeremiah OwyangWhat Can Social Networking Do for Your Organization? Tips and tools to help your nonprofit get the most out of online networks Wikipedia's list of social networking websites WordPress posts tagged "online community" Worthy tween/kid communities - Izzy Neis
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To tell me about a community site, resource, or expert for possible inclusion on this list, or if you're interested in an online community/social media/social networking project, consulting, or collaboration, email me at skarasic[at]yahoo.com .
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last updated: may 7, 2008
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