online communities

Online Communities are found around in various formats. Popular blogs with regular readers (who also comment on posts regularly), forums and more obviously social networking sites often fall under the 'online community' definition, as can some MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games).

The definitive factor is a place where people communicate with each other online. Whether an e-mail list can be called an online community is questionable, whilst many online communities have certainly grown around what started out as a simple e-mail list.

You'll find a number of articles about online communities here. Another one of my favorite blogs covering the topic is Mashable.com, which, as well as talking about online communities, has its own social networking community element on the site.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “online communities”

• How effective are blogs in creating a community?

  
  Marketing Conversation — Authority: 424
  Q: How effective are blogs in creating a community? My A: Blogs are a platform.  Blogs are completely ineffective at creating a community.  There are 99 terrible ghost town blogs for every one rocking blog.  There are 999 ghost town Twitter profiles for every one good, engaging, account.  The community is ...
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• Learn How To Breakdance Online

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 572
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• Twitter & Twitter Lists has replaced a lot for me

  
  clipotech — Authority: 129
  Twitter and Twitter Lists has replaced many things for me. For example my need for using an RSS reader to find all the cool news. Yesterday when I lay in my bed and reading on my iPhone as I usually do, it struck me that I dont need Instapaper anymore either. I just mark all the interesting stuff I find in my ...
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• What do community groups gain from maintaining a blog?

  
  Marketing Conversation — Authority: 424
  Q: What do these community groups gain from maintaining a blog? What are some of the drawbacks and difficulties? My A: One of the most valuable thing that non profits and community groups offer through engaging in blogging and other online ventures is economy of scale.  One of the reasons why Big Donors feel such ...
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• Would you become a fan of a brand on Facebook?

  
  FreshNetworks Blog — Authority: 462
  Image via Wikipedia We posted a couple of weeks ago about Facebook fan pages and how more than a third of fan pages have fewer than 100 fans. There are lots of reasons for this – many fans pages are designed to have just small numbers, some are niche or local brands and some are small but powerful groups of ...
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• Yahoo Extends Facebook Integration to Bring Together Social Experiences From Across the Web

  
  Ad Operations Online — Authority: 484
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  Xconomy — Authority: 672
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• Recent Study Shows Phishing on Facebook has Increased

  
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  FreshNetworks Blog — Authority: 462
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  FreshNetworks Blog — Authority: 462
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• A powerful tool for the real-time age

  
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• Fun social recommendation web site Likaholix

  
  TechWag — Authority: 417
  Image by Likaholix via CrunchBase I have been playing with Likaholix for the last week, and have ended up really enjoying the web site and the potential that it creates for people to share the things they do like. This is so much better than Yelp, and without all the drama that Yelp represents. Quite simply it ...
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• SEO and Social Media Experts Help Charities by Sending Santa Claus Higher Search Engine Results

  
  Ad Operations Online — Authority: 484
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• Project Encourage Anissa

  
  Adrienne's House — Authority: 125
  Image by Mishelle Lane via Flickr Those of you who follow me on Twitter and Facebook, are aware that a dear friend, Anissa Mayhew has had a major stroke and has been battling to survive for the past two weeks. The latest update from her husband shows much improvement and the need for more encouragement.  I ...
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• If Your Customer Can’t Tell Your Online Forum Is Anchored To Your Website, That’s Probably A Good Thing.

  
  Mostly (New) Media - Definitely Digital — Authority: 131
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• Did Lindsay Lohan Bang Actor Jason Segel?

  
  Shabooty.com — Authority: 606
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• Online Communities: The participants experience

  
  Insights Qualitativos 2.0 — Authority: 136
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• 5 reasons not to launch your own research community

  
  Insights Qualitativos 2.0 — Authority: 136
  by Andrew Needham I am a huge advocate of community research and have posted previously how it can deliver richer insight and better innovation but before you decide to launch your own community take a look at these 5 reasons not to:You get part time results for part time effort – if you only have the chance to ...
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• Quit reading blogs: Bloggers are self-centered A-holes. An R-Rated Post.

  
  Elastic Brands — Authority: 103
  I am getting sick and tired of the entire blogosphere.  It makes me want to stop blogging. Because the blogosphere is full of the most painfully self-centered a-holes on earth . OK it is not replete with them.  It is, IMHO, engorged with them, which, the more I think about it, is apropos.  But if you use the ...
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