External links
Online communities
- Online Communities for International Do-Gooders, a compiled (and growing) list of online communities related to international development and assistance from how-matters.org
Resources for community building and managing
Here is some suggested reading. Please share key points that are relevant to Appropedia, on Talk:Wiki community development or the site discussion page or community discussion list, particularly if it has inspired you to take action in a particular way.
- Art of Community by Jono Bacon from Ubuntu (you can download the pdf)
- FeverBee, blog by Richard Millington, "an online community builder currently working for the United Nations Refugee Agency... the founder of Commania, a community for community professionals and the author of the Online Community Manifesto.
- The Open Source Way - about online community, and being written by an online community. As at 22 Feb 2010, "The strongest sections are Communities of practice, How to loosely organize a community, and Stuff everyone knows and forgets anyway", according to the project leader.[1]
Deeper study
If you've read all the above - the books, the blog archives - you have plenty of knowledge to manage an online community. But if you still want to dig deeper, a few topics that might be useful to study are listed below - start at the Wikipedia articles, learn, and check the resources listed there. (This is an initial guess at useful topics - as you research, please improve the list):
Research and academic resources:
- Group Dynamics Resource Page - Donelson R. Forsyth, Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond.