- Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (19 Dec 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0130323829
- ISBN-13: 978-0130323828
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.1 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,370,644 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Whether you're a marketer, open source developer, political activist, or academic, chances are you depend on robust online communities. Online Communities brings together leading experts on online communities of every kind, commercial and non-commercial, sharing their experience and research on key issues.
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Online communities: Understanding them, building them, making them work.
- A comprehensive guide to online communities-how they develop and how they impact e-commerce, culture, politics, and education
- Why some online communities thrive—and others fail
- Contributors include Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation
Whether you're an online community developer, marketer, political activist, or academic, you depend on online communities. In this book, leading community-builders in e-commerce, non-profit, open source, and higher education share their insights on crucial issues such as: How are online communities organized? How do they change? What do their participants expect from them? What makes them work? And how can you make yours work better? Coverage includes:
- Leading models and key lessons for organizers of online communities.
- Corporate-sponsored online communities: social impacts and success factors
- Building alliances between diverse online communities
- Uses of online communities worldwide: the U.S., Great Britain, Mexico, France, Italy, Bosnia, South Africa, Brazil, Nicaragua, and elsewhere
- Distance learning: the promise and the reality
- Richard Stallman on how online communities can democratize universities
- Randy Connolly on why online communities may actually decrease social cohesion
Chris Werry and Miranda Mowbray bring together an extraordinary range of perspectives—and deliver unprecedented insight into the phenomenon and future of online communities. Whether you're a public policymaker or a system administrator, a distance learning professional or an e-commerce executive, you'll find this book interesting and useful.
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Format:Paperback
A very good, wide ranging, discussion of online community by an interesting assortment of leading researchers and practicioners. It covers everything from the commercial side of online communities to their use in education and by interest groups. An excellent course reader and very good for online community professionals looking for insight.
Format:Paperback
Already made your first steps into building an online community? This book will help you take the next step. Read it and you'll really begin to understand online community life. This isn't the first text I'd read if I was just starting off in the online community biz, but it's certainly something experienced online community professionals will want to read. it's also an excellent text for students and researchers interested in the area.
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