Online Community/Social Media SUPER List
Initially compiled by Shara Karasic. Visit Shara's website.
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ONLINE COMMUNITIES & SOCIAL NETWORKS
Artist/Design/Writer Communities
· deviantart
· Fiction Alley - fan fiction & discussion
· ficlets - collaborative writing
· Gather - fiction, essay writing
· humblevoice
· instructables
· Naked & Angry
· Portrayl - collaborative writing
· threadless
Book Sharing/Reviews
· Amazon
· bookcrossing
· goodreads
· LibraryThing - love their zeitgeist page
· shelfari
· squirl
Business Communities & Social Networks
· Alibaba - get international trade leads <LIBiznik - business networking for indie professionals
· BizToo - social networking site for global entrepreneurs Cambrian House - crowdsourcing, business networking, get help with your business ideas
· Cofoundr - find a co-founder for your entrepreneurial venture
· Ecademy
· FastPitch Networking - business networking, PR help for business
· GOBIGnetwork - community of startup companies
· konnects - communities around specific industries
· LinkedIn - uber online networking
· Idea Cafe - business forums
· Intuit Accountants - Intuit's resource for accounting and Quickbooks practitioners
· JIGSAW - share business contacts
· JumpUp - from Intuit, focuses on startups
· OpenBusiness - platform to share and develop innovate Open Business ideas - entrepreneurial ideas which are built around openness, free services and free access
· Oriented - global network of international professionals interested in Asian businesses and cultures
· QuickBooks Community - from Intuit
· Quicken Community - from Intuit
· ryze
· SBDC Community - community for Association of Small Business Development Centers members
· SmallBusiness.com
· Soflow.com
· spoke - find out who you know at various companies
· StartupNation
· Startupping - community for Internet entrepreneurs
· viadeo - business networking w/ European slant
· Visible Path - manage professional network and connect to corporate network
· XING (used to be OpenBC)
· Work.com
Citizen Journalism
· Global Voices
· Newsvine
· Wikileaks
Dating
· chemistry.com
· eHarmony
· iminlikewithyou
· hotornot
· Match.com
· nerve.com
· Plenty of Fish
Education Communities
· citeulike - academics' social network around the academic papers they're reading
· GreatSchools.net - parents review schools
· H2O Playlist - shared lists of readings around topics of intellectual interest
· Tapped In - community for education professionals
· WikiEducator - collaborative community for planning education projects linked with the development of free content, as well open education resources projects
Expert Communities
· citeulike - academics' social network around the academic papers they're reading
· Catalyze - resource for UI and UX professionals and those designing business systems
· Intuit Accountants - Intuit's resource for accounting and Quickbooks practitioners
· myragan.com - pr community - "where communicators meet"
· Population and Health Infoshare
· sermo - physicians' community
· Work.com - small-and-medium-sized business community with shared how-to advice
Fashion/Lifestyle
· corkd - review and share wine
· extra tasty - share drink recipes
· Ikeafans - Ikea fan community
· stylehive
Finance
· buxfer
· Motley Fool
· prosper - be a lender or borrower
· wesabe
Forums
· Brainstorms - Howard Rheingold's online community, invitation only
· Delphi Forums
· Talk City - owned by Prospero
· The Well - one of the oldest communities, good conversation
Goal Sharing
· 43 things
Health Communities
· Population and Health Infoshare - sharing knowledge to improve worldwide public health
· radRounds - linking radiologists to each other
· Sermo (online community for physicians)
· WebMD - community message boards
· Walker Tracker - a community site for pedometer fans to log and track their steps
· Wego Health
· Who Is Sick? - track illness outbreaks
How-to, Wiki, and Article Sites
· 7tipson
· ExpertVillage - how-to videos
· Gather
· Helium
· HubPages
· Makeuseof blog - list of how-to sites
· Only Human - share your mistakes and advice anonymously and help others
· Squidoo
· SuTree - index and library of video lessons & tutorials
· Wikipedia
· Wikihow
· Work.com (how-to guides from the business community)
Kids/Teen/College Student Communities
· Club Penguin
· flip
· Gaia Online
· gurl
· Habbo Hotel
· MTV - Pimp My Ride
· MTV - Virtual Laguna Beach
· NeoPets
· Nick.com
· PICZO
· popist
· SparkTop (kids with dyslexia and ADD)
· tagged
· tagworld
· VMK - virtual Magic Kingdom
· zwinktopia
Leadership/Community Building
· ccl.org - Center for Creative Leadership
· designedlearning - building community
· margaretwheatley - building organizations and communities
· greenleaf.org - servant leadership
· womensleadership - Institute for Women's Leadership, Women Leading Change
Local/Reviews
· chowhound - foodie site
· craigslist
· epinions
· fatdoor - form community with your neighbors
· Judy's Book
· kijiji
· rateitall
· Yelp
Marketplace/Shopping/Selling
· biddingBuddies - eBay auction buyers and sellers social network
· bizrate
· eBAY
· MyThings - see what stuff others own
· thisnext - social shopping
· yub - shop with friends
· zebo
Meetup
· Meetup
Mobile
· dodgeball
· kyte
· loopt
· Jaiku
· Qik - send & share live video from your phone
· radar
· twitter - mini-blogging
· twitterholic
· twittervision - twitters imposed on a world map
· zannel - community for sharing videos & pictures on mobile phones
Music
· lastfm
· mog
Photo Sharing
· flickr
· flickrvision - see flickr photos in real time imposed on a map of the world
· fotki
· fotolog
· photobucket
Publishing Platforms
· PublicSquare - collaborative publishing
· scribd (documents)
Question & Answer Sites
· Explanations in Plain English – YouTube videos by Lee Lefever
· Hubpages Requests - can request an answer from person with specific expertise
· Linkedin Q & A - can ask your network questions -- largely marketing folks, recruiters, and consultants who answer, big picture business strategy questions often get thoughtful answers
· Microsoft Live QnA
· Naver - Koren Q & A
· Trulia Voices - real estate questions
· Yahoo Answers - big tween/teen component here
Real Estate
· RealEstateVoices - real estate social news site
· Trulia - members can post and answer questions about neighborhoods
· Zillow
Social Bookmarking/Browsing/Aggregators
· Absolutely del.icio.us Tools Collection
· addthis - add your site to a long list of social bookmarking applications
· bizsugar - business aggregator site
· chi.mp – Chi.mp is leading the evolution of the social internet; bringing together all your online identities, content, contacts and communications into one centralized location under a unique domain that you both own and control. Launch to open domain Sept. 1, 2008 - Beta but awesome!
· collactive - create a bulletin about your site or a particular piece of Web content and get others to take action such as voting, rating, etc. – social media promotion platform
· del.icio.us
· digg
· EngBeat - social bookmarking for engineers
· fendoo - social bookmarking for smart people
· ma.gnolia
· popurls
· RealEstateVoices - real estate social news site
· sphinn - social aggregator for search and interactive marketers
· stumbleupon
· ycombinator - startup news
Social Calendars/Events
· 30 Boxes
· bumpQ
· going
· eventful
· eventwax
· Evite
· Upcoming
Social Networks, General
· bebo
· black planet
· boompa - for car lovers
· catster - for cat lovers
· CLUBGH - Ghanaian social networking
· Cyworld - Korean social networking
· dogster - for dog lovers
· eons - over 50 crowd
· extra tasty
· geni
· elgg - incorporate your tools within one environment and share with whom you like
· friendster
· hi5
· mixi - japanese social networking
· myspace
· orkut
· pownce
· squirl
· tribe.net
· trig
· Virb
· wallop
· xanga
· Yahoo 360
Social Search
· Mahalo
· Rollyo
· Swicki
· Wink - people search w/ social networking, online profiles show up
Technology
· elgg - incorporate your tools within one environment and share with whom you like
· Slashdot – tech news
· techmeme
· Tech Crunch – profiles new IT companies/blogs
· technorati – blog news
Travel
· couchsurfing
· flyertalk - frequent flyer community
· gusto
· everytrail - GPS travel community
· Travellerspoint
· TripAdvisor
· TripUp
· Wikitravel
Video
· panjea
· revver
· spout - film recommendations
· SuTree - index and library of video lessons & tutorials
· viddler - upload, enhance, and share your videos
· YouTube
Virtual Worlds
· Everquest
· Gaia Online
· Habbo Hotel
· Second Life
· MTV - Pimp My Ride
· MTV - Virtual Laguna Beach
· There.com
· World of Warcraft
ONLINE COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT
Community Academic Programs
· Berkman Center for Internet & Society - at Harvard Law School
· Information Society Project at Yale Law School
· UC Berkeley School of Information
· USC Annenberg School for Communication Online Communities Master's Program
· University of Arizona Management Information Systems department course - Managing Online Communities - in conjunction with IBM
Community Articles & Resources
· 10 reasons by every non profit must have a blog – by Lance Trebresch & Taylor Robinson
· 10 Things Every Non Profit Executive Needs to Know About IT – by Deborah Finn
· 2009: The Year of Social Enterprise Networks – by Dan Farber
· 6 Steps to Winning Hearts and Minds on Web – by Katya Andresen
· 7 Tips to Make Your Charity Badge a Success – by Lance Trebesch and Taylor Robinson
· 35 corporate social media in action – by Aaron Uhrmacher - corporate social media in action – what they are using to get the message out. Examples are coca-cola conversations, fujifilm, hsbc, ibm, intel, adobe, mcdonalds, new york times, national geographic
· 40 social networking sites: Web 2.0 Directory
· 55 social bookmarking sites - bloggers
· 120 experts on social networking, communities - ventureblogalist's thought leader picks
· All the digg style applications: The list
· Anonymity and Online Commmunity: Identity Matters
· The Art of Chunking – online writing essential
· The Art of Creating a Community by Guy Kawasaki
· The Art of Hosting Good Conversations Online - by Howard Rheingold
· Best Engaging Communities blog
· NpTech Tag Summary: Best Wishes for A More Social 2008! by Beth Kanter
· Building Online Communities - from O'Reilly
· Building Online Communities: Transforming Assumptions Into Success - from the Benton Foundation
· Building an Online Community - by Shara Karasic
· citeulike - tag: community
· The Community Spirit of Yahoo's Fake
· The Coming Age of Lying Avatars - Salon article about social trust as physical interactions move to online virtual worlds
· Community Building on the Web - by Amy Jo Kim
· Community Group Therapy
· Comparision of top blogging platforms - Wordpress, Typepad, Movable Type, Blogger
· Community Guy
· connectable dots - Gail William's blog
· Crowdsourcing – by Howard Rheingold
· Customer service communities at eBay - research paper compares customer behavior before and after joining a customer community
· danah boyd
· Do Customer Communities Increase Revenues by Active Customers? - Dec. 2006 Harvard Business Review article
· Enhancing Online Community Interaction - Communibuild
· Email group: Betty Ray's online community email group - for community professionals to share best practices
· Email group: e-mint - Association of Online Community Professionals - UK-based
· Email group: online facilitation at Yahoo Groups
· Facebook Case Study: Offline behavior drives online usage
· Facebook: Causes on Facebook by Randall Winston
Facebook's Critical Success Factors
· Facebook Group: Community Manager, Advocate, and Evangelist - started by Jeremiah Owyang - "Is it your career or job to participate in online communitities on behalf of an organization? Join your peers here."
· Facebook Group: Online Community Roundtable - started by Bill Johnston of Forum One - "A group for those working with online communities in the commercial and non-profit spaces. Specificially, a group for those charged with community strategy and management."
· Facilitating and Hosting a Virtual Community by Nancy White
· Forrester: Social networking will be biggest enterprise 2.0 priority by 2013; smaller business reticent – by Larry Dignan
· The Future of Communities blog
· TechCrunch: Google OpenSocial
· How to Be a Great Host - A List Apart
· Hosting: Online Moderator Guidelines and Community-Building Tips - by Gail Williams, The WELL
· How and Why Wikipedia Works: An Interview with Angela Beesley, Elisabeth Bauer, and Kizu Naoko
· The International Journal of Web-Based Communities
· Habitat Chronicles - MMORPGS
· How Social Networks Work: The Puzzle of Exhaust Data - phatic communication, so ubiquitous in Twitter and Facebook, doesn't get much said, but gets lots done - by Grant McGracken
· How to Hire an Online Community Manager - top 25 questions to Ask a potential community hire by Shara Karasic
· Life With Alacrity
· List of White Label (Applications you can Rebrand) Social Networking Platforms
· Lithium's Top 20 Social Networks
· Many to Many - a group weblog on social software
· Microsoft's social computing group
· musings of a social architect
· TheNewPRWiki
· OC Expert Interview - Joi Podgorny - tweens and children communities
· Online Community Report by Jim Cashel, Forum One
· Online Social Fundraising Blog – firstgiving's blog about non-profit online fundraising