Poor Richard's Building Online Communities: Create a Web Community for Your Business, Organization, Club, or Family,9780966103298

Poor Richard's Building Online Communities: Create a Web Community for Your Business, Organization, Club, or Family

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ISBN13: 9780966103298
ISBN10: 0966103297
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-07-01
Publisher(s): Top Floor Pub
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Summary

(Top Floor Publishing) Helps anyone with Internet access find an online community or create one using e-mail, the Web, or other Internet systems, including Usenet newsgroups and Internet Relay Chat. Also provides help in making communities work, using communities to make money, advertising and promoting communities, and attracting new community members. Softcover.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Introduction to Online Communities
What Is Online Community?
3(16)
Online Community Options
19(10)
Participating Effectively
29(8)
Part II: Mailing List Communities
Finding, Joining, and Participating in Mailing Lists
37(30)
Creating and Managing Your Own Mailing List
67(50)
Part III: Usenet Newsgroup Communities
Finding, Joining, and Participating in Newsgroups
117(42)
Creating and Managing Your Own Newsgroup
159(18)
Part IV: Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
Finding, Joining, and Participating in IRC
177(18)
Creating and Managing IRC Channels
195(16)
Part V: Web-Based Communities
Finding, Joining, and Participating in Web-based Communities
211(16)
Creating and Managing Your Own Web-based Community
227(22)
Part VI: Growing and Managing Your Community
Publicizing Your Community
249(14)
Encouraging Sharing and Responding to Dissension
263(24)
Making Money with Your Community
287(8)
Privacy, Spam, and Other Issues
295(12)
Managing Groups of Communities
307(16)
Part VII: True-Life Stories
The Computer Book Publishing List
323(4)
Knitting.About.com: Craftspeople
327(6)
The Comp.compilers Newsgroup
333(6)
The soc.religion.unitarian-univ newsgroup
339(6)
The UUA.ORG Mailing Lists: Running Hundreds of Communities
345(10)
Appendix: Resources for Community Managers 355

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