About Online Communities

A critical part of java.net is our community. If you are interested in reading more about online communities, check out some of these references and links.

This list was started by Helen Chen, the java.net Site Manager. It is not comprehensive, just meant to serve as food for thought. Please feel free to share your favorite reads, references or links here as well. Just click on the Edit link below to edit this page!

Papers and Articles

• Open Source Community Building
• Producing Open Source Software, How to Run a Successful Free Software Project
• Community Effort in Online Groups: Who Does the Work and Why?
• Online Community Report: Top Ten Trends for Online Communities
• Design Principles for Online Communities
• Nine principles for making virtual communities work
• Using Social Psychology to Motivate Contributions to Online Communities
• Think Different: Increasing Online Community Participation Using Uniqueness and Group Dissimilarity
• How Oversight Improves Member-Maintained Communities
• Procedures for Analyses of Online Communities
• Improvisation and design in distributed communities
• A Sustainable Model For Large Scale Online Communities
• The Landscape of Online Communities of Enquiry
• Delivering Successful e-Communities at Cisco: What drives Adoption and Results?
• The Language of Online Intercultural Community Formation
• Virtual Community Attraction: Why People Hang Out Online
• A Typology of Virtual Communities: A Multi-Disciplinary Foundation for Future Research
• ICT Enabled Virtual Collaboration through Trust
• Building Online Professional Networks: Three Stages to Success
• Designing and evaluating online communities: research speaks to emerging practice
• Dimensional representations of knowledge in online community
• Finding tacit knowledge in online communities
• Discovery of Social Networks and Knowledge in Social Networks by analysis of email utterances
• Representing Knowledge in Online Communities
• Increasing contribution in online communities using alternative displays of community activity levels
• Benchmarks for Building Extranets and Online Communities
• A Multi-agent Systems Approach to Analyze Online Community Activities
• Contrasting Community Building in Sponsored and Community Founded Open Source Projects
• Knowledge sharing in online communities and its relevance to knowledge management in the e-business era
• Supporting Community and Building Social Capital
• Is YOUR organizational Balance Sheet in Balance? ROI Metrics from Community
• The ABC’s of Online Community
• A Structurational Model of the Dynamics of Free/Libre Open Source Software Development Teams
• Distributed Collective Practices and Free/Open-Source Software ProblemManagement: Perspectives and Methods
• Measuring Online Communities
• Three Ethical Moments in Debian
• Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute

Bloggers

• Daniel Brookshier
  • Controlling code in your open source project
  • Murphys Law and Open Source Software Development
  • Managing membership requests
• Mike Rowland, Impact Interaction, interesting comments about online trust
• Joe Cothrel, List of online community RSS feeds
• Danny Flamberg, Manhatten Marketing Maven, the importance of metrics
• Conversations with Dina, Creative Chaos - Dina Mehta's Blog

   

Books

• Herre van Oostendorp, Cognition in a Digital World
• Amy Jo Kim, Community Building on the Web
• Jenny Preece, Online Communities: Designing Usability, Supporting Sociability
• Figallo, Hosting Web Communities
• Derek Powazek, Design for Community
• Howard Rheingold, The virtual community: homesteading on the electronic frontier
• Nancy Dixon, Common Knowledge: How Companies thrive by sharing what they know
• Smith & Kollock, Communities in Cyberspace
• Liebowitz, Building organizational intelligence: a knowledge management primer
• Hagel & Armstrong, Net gain
• Nielsen, Designing Web Usability
• Rosenfield & Morville, Information Architecture for the World-wide web
• Leuf & Cunningham, The Wiki way: Quick collaboration on the web
• Doctorow et. al, Essential blogging: selecting and using weblog tool
• Di Bona et. al, Open Sources, Voices from the Open Source Revolution
• Feller & Fitzgerald, Understanding Open Source Software Development
• Graham, Hackers & Painters, Big Ideas from the Computer Age
• Curley & Kivowitz, Knowledge Management: The Manager's Pocket Guide
• Davenport & Prusak, Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know
• Nonaka & Takeuch, The Knowledge-Creating company
• Sproull & Kiesler, Connections: New Ways of Working in the Networked Organization
• Wenger et al, Cultivating Communities of Practice
• Lipnack & Stamps, Virtual Teams
• Eric Von Hippel DEMOCRATIZING INNOVATION( http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ.htm )

Journals and Lists

• Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
  • Special Issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication: Online Communities: Design, theory and practice - to be published June 2005
• International Journal of Web Based Communities (IJWBC)
• DLESE - Graphical User Interface (GUI) working group, Literature on building and using online communities
• Group Lens Research Publication list
• Open Source Community Research at MIT
• Innovation Labs at MIT

Organizations, Websites, and (of course) Related Online Communities

• Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation dedicated to managing and promoting the Open Source Definition for the good of the community, specifically through the OSI Certified Open Source Software certification mark and program
• International Forum on Virtual Communities- Annual conference, next 9-10 November 2005 in London
• International Conference on Communities and Technologies 13-16 June 2005 Milano, Italy Sustaining Community: The role and design of incentive mechanisms in online systems
• Online Community Report
• Agoya project - What does a community look like?

-- HelenChen - 18 October 2006