BOOKS
• The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace, by M. Scott Peck
• Power Networking Second Edition : 59 Secrets for Personal & Professional Success, by Donna Fisher, Sandy Vilas
• People Power : 12 Power Principles to Enrich Your Business, Career & Personal Networks, by Donna Fisher
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WEBSITES
• www.communityanswers.com – CommunityAnswers.com offers a FREE resource for community builders, community users, moderators, managers, owners and the like to gain support and advice about building quality online communities.
• www.cornerways.com – CornerWays, provides online community building, consulting and design services worldwide. We are dedicated to offering cost-effective, tailored solutions to meet any community and site needs, whatever the size of organization or company.
• www.communispace.com – Communispace Corporation creates vibrant online spaces that enable people within organizations to work across time and space.
• www.fullcirc.com – Full Circle is the consulting practice of Nancy White and a network of independent professionals. Using communications as our centerpoint, we provide strategic facilitation, online community development, marketing, and project management services for the community, non-profit and business sectors.
• www.smartgroups.com – SmartGroups is all about making life easier. It’s a great, new way of organising the different groups of people in your life using email and the Internet. SmartGroups keeps you in touch, helps you to share information, manage events and even make Group decisions. SmartGroups is FREE – Community Zero (below) is not but is a more sophisticated solution.
• www.salon.com – An Internet media company that produces 10 original content sites as well as two online communities — Table Talk and The WELL. The sites, updated daily or more frequently, include News, Politics, Technology and Business, Arts and Entertainment, Books, Sex, Life, Poeople, Comics, and Salon Audio, a digital audio hub which offers downloadable interviews and commentary from today’s most compelling writers and performers. Salon.com also maintains an e-commerce gateway, Salon Shop, which showcases Salon.com staff reviews and recommendations on a wide range of consumer goods plus information on the latest products from affiliated merchants and partners.
• www.communityzero.com A unique combination of powerful, secure and integrated tools for enabling web-based group communications. Not free, not flexible, solid and capable.