online community

An extended interview extracted from eModeration's recent White Paper on communities of purpose:

One of our own members here at the Mod Com, shares his thoughts from his own blog on how to go about hiring a community manager via social media:  

Feverbee post on how online communities can change your world:  

Following Ning's less than impressive closure of its free service plan, this article takes a look at the right way to close down a social networking site:

Miller provides 5 key strategies for nurturing a successful community:

Not all online communities for business succeed.  In fact, many fail.  The failure rate for online communities has been a popular research topic over the past

Article which provides advice on how to evaluate the success of your community beyond membership numbers:  

Advice on how to begin in social media, particularly for small business owners and entrepreneurs:  

A good community manager gets to know their community inside out, as Holly Seddon from FreshNetworks describes in her article about community management.

Online communities have reached the royals: