Online Communities

Developing online communities is not only for Internet entrepreneurs but for users with the widest variety of interests, backgrounds and motives for banding together. This text looks at what makes community? The author provides practical guidance.

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provides a good balance between theory and practise (Software Focus, December 2001) I like the slightly zany drawings People will say I wish I'd had this book before now. (Computer & Education, No. 36, 2001) ...an excellent book...my best recommendations... (Jnl of Computing and Information Technology, March 2003)

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Jenny Preece is Professor and Chair of Information Systems at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, where she teaches online communities and human--computer interaction. Prior to coming to the USA she chaired the first distance education course at the Open University in the UK. She has authored a leading text on Human--Computer Interaction and numerous other publications.

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Part 1 The nature of community online: inside stories; what makes a community?; classifying communities; theories and online community. Part 2 Developing online communities: community-centred Design; software; what makes a successful community?; evaluating online communities; design case studies; building communities for...; looking to the future.

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