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Resources for Hosts of Internet Mailing Lists and Conferences

Reviews and comments on these links appreciated and they will be added if you send them to me .

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• The Cybersoc Online Community Building Tool-kit

  The Cybersoc Online Community Building Tool-kit (beta) is an excellent starting point for anyone developing an Online Community. This tool-kit includes: research papers discussing the theory behind Online Community valuable information on free services which allow you to add mailing lists, message boards, and chat rooms to your website reviews of the top books for Online Community designers, hosts, and citizens annotated links to other Online Community resources It is assumed that most people using this toolkit do not have access to their own web server or cgi-bin, thus special attention has been paid to free services for building spaces which allow one-to-one and many-to-many interaction online.

• Most of the Position Papers from the PDC '98 / CSCW '98 Workshop "Designing Across Borders: The Community Design of Community Networks" are now available...

• Online Resources for Virtual Communities
  From Jeff Pemberton
  CEO, Online Inc.
  The following sites for those interested in virtual communities were collected over a several-month period while I was researching virtual communities as a co-organizer of this conference. The research was both online on the Web and through discussions with people I discovered there. Visit the sites yourself for up-to-date information. (Material compiled December 9, 1997.)

• Hosting a Speaker: A Guide for Graduate Students
  Phil Agre
  http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/
  Refers to hosting a speaker in rl, but can be easily translated to hosting online. Interesting too, to note the roles involved here and to translate those across to the virtual situation.

• The Art of Hosting Good Conversations Online By Howard Rheingold.
  1998 document with very clear and concice tasks for the Host in discussion groups. Howard brings years of experience and thought to this seemingly modest document. Recommended -- wl

• Ten Key Elements for Team Leaders to Manage by Lisa Kimball
  "Purposes Roles Culture Conversation Feedback Pace Entry and Re-Entry Weaving Participation Flow"
  

• Lisa Kimball of Metasystems Design Group has some interesting work on her pages .
  In particular her " boundaryless facilitation " [Leveraging the strengths of face-to-face and groupware tools to maximize group process ] explores the possibilities of "the new environment [...] within which we have far greater opportunities and tools for developing successful team performance and community than ever before." -- dr

• Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community
  Classic recently updated: Copyright 1992,93,98 by John Coate tex@sfgate.com Early January, 1998
  Recommended reading as it covers the whole field and is full of wisdom from somone who has rich experience in the field. -- wl.

• The Natural Life Cycle Of Mailing Lists
  "Kat Nagel (KatNagel@eznet.net) sent this terrific piece to the EARLY-M mailing list in December 1994. It is the best description of the social development of a mailing list I've read. " -- a Good starting point if you are thinking about the ebb and flow in a list. Thanks Dan for the reference.

• The Web site: Hosting Web Communities
  "The purpose of this site is to support and augment the book. Included here are updated links to all of the Web sites mentioned in the book and new links to sites that are relevant to the contents of the book. The site is organized by book chapter and on each chapter's page, along with the site links you'll find information and news to bring the contents of the book as up to date as I can keep it. I expect facts to change, new stars to be born and former stars to disappear as time goes on. Ideas that were assumed when I wrote the book will either prove themselves or be dumped by the wayside. This site will lead you through the changes. Come on along. "

  This is the publishers site, where there is a list of links for each Chapter:
  http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/figallo/chaplinks.htm

• The Book: Hosting Web Communities : Building Relationships, Increasing Customer Loyalty, and Maintaining a Competitive Edge by Cliff Fig allo -- A link to Amazon (with the Psybernet Bookstore tag)
  "Former director of the Well, recent consultant to America Online, and current director of community development for Salon magazine, Cliff Figallo knows what it takes to create a true community in cyberspace and what kinds of mistakes will torpedo the effort. In this book, he writes about the groups that form online communities and how a community builder can foster the process. While Figallo never claims that there's an easy formula for building the type of online feeling that brings people back again and again, he demonstrates with both theory and real-world examples how dedicated community builders can pull it off." --Elizabeth Lewis

  Resources for Moderators and Facilitators of Online Discussion
  mauri collins and Zane L. Berge. Comprehensive.

  Hosting Online Conferences
  "These articles are good all-around guides to the social aspects of hosting (moderating or facilitating) online conferences. Prospective hosts would do well to read at least one of the following. All of them, if possible." An excellent collection of resources maintained by David Woolley.

  The Design of Virtual Communities
  A course outline rich in links to resources and *comprehensive*. Instructor:Amy Bruckman

  D E S I G N I N G   O N L I N E   C O M M U N I T I E S CLASS OUTLINE
  INSTRUCTOR: Amy Jo Kim, Ph.D 

  9 Timeless Design Principles for Community-Building
  Amy Jo Kim, Ph.D 

  Unofficial Listowner Guide

  Barry Kort's info on Online interaction
  Including links to many examples and strong on the idea of Mentoring.

  Microcontent: How to Write Headlines, Page Titles, and Subject Lines
  Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for September 6, 1998:

  Principles of Generative Leadership
  

  The conventional view of leadership emphasizes positional power and conspicuous accomplishment. But generative leaders do not primarily command or influence others. Instead, they create, day by day, a domain in which people continually deepen their understanding of reality, and become more capable of shaping their future.

  George Por's Faq on Facilitation.
  

  version 0.9
  FAQ Editor: George Pór
  About this FAQ
  When and why forums have to be facilitated?
  What are the main roles and responsibilities in facilitating forums?
  System Administrator
  Account Administrator
  Forum Convener
  Community Architect
  Moderator
  Content Facilitator
  Cybrarian
  

  Key Resources for Community Participatory Decision-Making, and Electronic Democracy
  Frank Odasz resources on how the net affects community.

  List of Lists .

  What is a list

  From Workplace To Workspace  Using Email Lists to Work Together
  by Maureen James & Liz Rykert

  They have a good line on collaboration:

  Technology on it's own won't make online collaboration happen.
  It's people that make the difference!
  The above link is to the online guide, which looks like a replica? of their book: Working Together Online ~ A Book About Internet Collaborationl

  Community Intelligence Labs

Please send updates and corrections to Walter

Created 24 August 1998, Updated: October 14, 1998