From the Publisher
Building Communities from the Inside Out is a new guide to "asset--based community development." Authors John Kretzmann and Jhon Mcknight summarize lessons learned by studying successful community--building initiatives in hundreds of neighborhoods across the United States. The book outlines in simple,"neighborhood--friendly" terms what local communities can do to start their own journey down the path of asset--based development:

• How communities can rediscover and "map"all of their assets;
• How they can combine and mobilize these rediscovered strenghts to build stronger, more self--reliant and powerful communities;
• How "outsiders" in goverment or the philanthropic sector can contribute sensitively and effectively to the process of asset--based development.

This guide will be helpful to local community leaders, leaders of local associations and institutions, goverment officials, and leaders in the philanthrophic and business communities who wish to support effective community--building strategies.

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Community Building on the Web: љSecret Strategies for Successful Online Communities
Amy Jo Jo Kim" љ Amy Jo Kim"

From the Publisher
What's the point of creating a great Web site if no one goes there-or worse, if people come but never return? How do some sites-such as America Online, EBay, and GeoCities-develop into Internet communities with loyal followings and regular repeat traffic? How canWeb page designers and developers create sites that are vibrant and rewarding?

Amy Jo Kim, the author of Community Building on the Weband consultant to some of the most successful Internet communities, is an expert at teaching how to design sites that succeed by making new visitors feel welcome, rewarding member participation, and building a sense of their own history. She discusses important design strategies, interviews influentialWeb community-builders, and provides the reader with templates and questionnaires to use in building their own communities.

FROM THE BOOK

Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Purpose
Building a Successful Community
Case Study:The Planning Exercise in Action
Articulate Your Vision

Chapter 2: PLACES: Bringing People Together
People Are Talking
Mapping the Territory
Zoned For Growth

Chapter 3: PROFILES: Getting to Know Your Members
Why Profiles?
Your Member Database
Creating a Persona
Evolving a Social Identity

Chapter 4: ROLES: From Newcomer to Old-Timer
The Membership Life Cycle
Welcome Your Visitors
Instruct Your Novices
Reward Your Regulars
Empower Your Leaders
Honor Your Elders

Chapter 5: LEADERSHIP:
The Buck Stops Here
Whatуs a Leader?
Unofficial Leaders
Official Leaders
Case Study: Power to the People: The Slashdot Moderator System
Manage Your Leaders

Chapter 6: ETIQUETTE: Rules to Live By
Develop Your Ground Rules
Enforce Your Policies
Evolve Your Rules

Chapter 7: EVENTS: Meetings, Performances and Competitions
Event Planning 101
Meetings: Bringing Groups Together
Performances: Up on Stage
Competitions: Members in the Spotlight

Chapter 8: RITUALS: Handshakes, Holidays, and Rites of Passage
The Power of Ritual
Personal Acknowledgments
Community Holidays
Passages and Transitions

Chapter 9: SUBGROUPS: Clans, Clubs and Committees
Why Subgroups?
Setting the Stage
Developing Your Official Program
Epilogue
Index

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Building Community in Schools љ
Thomas J. Sergiovanni"

Synopsis
In this book for educational leaders, teachers and professors, Sergiovanni argues that creating a successful school requires a "commitment of the heart and mind." To capture that commitment, schools need to instill a vital sense of community whereby students, teachers, administrators and parents can join in a common purpose. Using case studies to illustrate his point, Sergiovanni shows how important it is to shift the focus away from schools as organizations based on contracts and rewards to school as communities bound by moral commitment, trust and shared goals.

From the Publisher
Both in and out of schools, people are experiencing a loss of community. In this book, Thomas J. Sergiovanni explains why a sense of community is so vital to the success of any school and shows teachers, parents, and administrators what they can do to rebuild it. Filled with case studies and other school examples, Building Community in Schools provides the necessary intellectual framework for understanding the need to create communities that are inclusive, meaningful, and democratic.

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Sergiovanni (education and administration, Trinity University) explains why a sense of community is vital to the success of any school and shows teachers, parents, and administrators what they can do to create school communities that are inclusive, meaningful, and democratic. He describes case studies and examples of schools that have successfully reinvented themselves in order to establish a sense of community as the foundation for all curriculum and instruction decisions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Building Community: љThe Human Side of Work
George Manning" љ Kent Curtis" љ Steve McMillen"

Annotation
Devoted to those who recognize that the human side of work has been lost after a decade of downsizing, restructuring, and reengineering, the authors show how to develop a community of people who communicate well, treat one another with dignity, and benefit from their diversity.

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Table of Contents

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Poor Richard's Building Online Communities: љCreate a Web Community for Your Business, Club, Assocation, or Family
Margaret Levine Young" љ John R. Levine"

Synopsis
On-line communities work for the same reasons traditional communities work-because of the relationships members form, the information they gather, and the entertainment they view. All provide immediate value and comfort. Poor Richard's Building Online Communities shows how anyone with Internet access can create an on-line community and describes the many advantages. For business, Web communities provide tightly targeted audiences for higher ad rates, more efficient merchandising, excellent word-of-mouth publicity, and customer loyalty. On-line communities can also be used to promote a special interest group or help an organization communicate with its members.

This book explains how to create a place on the Web where customers, members, or friends can post announcements, view photos, have discussions, make recommendations, post events, share thoughts, and meet others with similar interests or questions. Such communities are perfect for Scout groups, professional associations, sports clubs, schools, fraternities and sororities, families spread around the globe, and any other group of two or more people who want to share information and experiences.

Annotation
On-line communities work for the same reasons traditional communities work-becauseof the relationships members form, the information they gather, and the entertainment they view. All provide immediate value and comfort. Poor Richard's Building Online Communities shows how anyone with Internet access can create an on-line community and describes the many advantages. For business, Web communities provide tightly targeted audiences for higher ad rates, more efficient merchandising, excellent word-of-mouth publicity, and customer loyalty. On-line communities can also be used to promote a special interest group or help an organization communicate with its members. This book explains how to create a place on the Web where customers, members, or friends can post announcements, view photos, have discussions, make recommendations, post events, share thoughts, and meet others with similar interests or questions. Such communities are perfect for Scout groups, professional associations, sports clubs, schools, fraternities and sororities, families spread around the globe, and any other group of two or more people who want to share information and experiences.

Margaret Levine Young and John R. Levine are the coauthors of Internet for Dummies, Windows 98: The Complete Reference, Internet: The Complete Reference, and E-mail for Dummies. She lives in Cornwall, Vermont. He lives in Trumansburg, New York.

From the Publisher
Hot to develop a loyal and active audience with a Web community.

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Conversation and Community: љChat in a Virtual World
Lynn Cherny"

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From the Publisher
Conversation and Community: Discourse in a Social MUD is an examination of the Speech community in an Internet "virtual community". Based on ethnographic research on a community of users of a MUD. or "multi-user dimension", the book describes a closeknit community united in features of their language use, shared history, and relationships to other online communities. Routines, conventional vocabulary, and abbreviations, syntactic and semantic phenomena, and special turn-taking and repair strategies distinguish the MUD community's register. Discussion of methods and ethics for online research are included.

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The Virtual Community

Welcome to the online version of Howard Rheingold's" The Virtual Community . if you like what you read online, go out and buy a copy of the ink-and-dead-trees edition and give it to someone who needs to read this. Thanks! Your support will help me spend more time cooking up stuff to post here. http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/"