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.

The dos-and-don'ts of building a website community by Matt Haughey, the creator of MetaFilter.

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

Whenever you provide people with the ability to communicate online then community develops. This club is about the development and management of online communities.

News Analysis by CNET observing how Disney and Time Warner, by building enhanced entertainment sites, threaten topical online communities.

Usability expert Jakob Nielsen's take on Online Communities: "The Web is not a community: a huge impersonal city is a better metaphor. User-contributed content can be valuable (if edited), but chat rooms should be avoided because of participation ineq...

"Realizing that communication and information are increasingly dependent on networked digital information, community activists all over the world are developing community computer network systems."

Editorial by Michael Mulquin. Discusses the role of Community Networks in delivering new information and communications technologies to UK residents. Most content is applicable elsewhere as well.

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