Editors' web site picks for fostering an online community and personalizing web sites.

Detailed articles, tools, and resources about community building. Topics range from software recommendations to profiles of successful communities.

Five PhD students out to study virtual communities, their rise and development, evolution, meaning and its effect to traditional organizations. (Some papers are in Swedish.)

List of fundamental principles to consider when starting a new community site.

Online community development company that provides online community building, consulting and design services worldwide.

Essay by former Wells conferencing manager John Coate explaining what happens in an online social environment.

Has papers, presentations, stories, indexes, and surveys.

Questions and answers and advice for online community builders, users, moderators, managers, and owners.

Aims to develop a social information infrastructure and create a new lifestyle for interpersonal communication via the Internet.

UK online community specialists providing planning, RFP and ROI analysis services. Requires Flash.