books: online community ...     books:       Blog on: Building Online Communities with Web Logs4 reviews Todd Stauffer Topeka Bindery, 2002 A miracle: an excellent primer and reference on blogging This is a truly remarkable book. It is both a detailed primer for weblog novice and serves well as a reference for the experienced blogger or one desiring to attain that level. Stauffer's organization of his material is unusually well structured. He begins at the very beginning: what is a blog, why you might want one and so one. Then there's a walk-through of four different blogging platforms, ...             Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication, and Community Online2 reviews Meredith G. Farkas Information Today, Inc., 2007 An outstanding, practical reference. SOCIAL SOFTWARE IN LIBRARIES: BUILDING COLLABORATION, COMMUNICATION AND COMMUNITY ONLINE is for any college-level collection catering to library science students as well as practicing librarians: it surveys social software, which lets libraries interact online with the communities they serve. Chapters provide librarians with the information needed to implement blogs, RSS, wikis and other types of ...             Home, School, And Community Relations: A Guide To Working With Families: (book And Web Tutor On Web Ct With ...1 review Carol Gestwicki Delmar Thomson Learning, 2004 Awesome Book Very easy to read. Helpful, practical information. Many chapters with good advice on working with parents. Some information on home visiting. I definately recommend this title.             The Self-Help Sourcebook: Your Guide to Community & Online Support Groups (6th Edition - 1998)2 reviews Saint Clare's Health Services, 1998 Much Needed Book As the webowner of "Borderline Personality Disorder Sanctuary" & "Bipolar Disorder Sanctuary," I was absolutely delighted to find this book! This book is so needed and will lead many people suffering from many different disorders to finding help. I highly recommend this book to everyone.             Computer Resources for People with Disabilities: A Guide to Assistive Technologies, Tools and Resources for ...1 review Alliance for Technology Access Hunter House, 2004 This is the ONE If you are a person with disabilities or have some functional limitation, there are so many tools and resources available to help you achieve your potential. But where to start? Start with this book by the Alliance for Technology Access! From establishing a vision of how your life to be, to giving you step-by-step instructions for creating a plan, to educating you about technology tools that are ...             Building Online Learning Communities: Effective Strategies for the Virtual Classroom (Jossey Bass Higher and ...1 review Rena M. Palloff, Keith Pratt Jossey-Bass, 2007 A Must Read for Distance Learning Professionals This is quite simply one the best books on distance learning that I have read. Palloff and Pratt provide a well researched investigation into developing communities online. The first part of the book goes to great length in defining distance learning and community. The authors provide both empirical and anecdotal evidence to support their claim that community building online is critical to ...             Scattered Pictures: Reflections Of An American Muslim5 reviews NID Publishers, 2007 A must read for all Imam Zaid Shakir is one of the most brilliant thinkers of our time. His writings prove to be a source of clarity in a time of confusion for both Muslims and non-Muslims alike. It is quite rare to find an individual who is well versed in both the Islamic and the Western traditions. In Scattered Pictures he has compiled some of his most thought provoking essays from the past few years. He has dealt ...             Managing Online Forums: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Run Successful Community Discussion Boards14 reviews Patrick O'Keefe AMACOM, 2008 Forum-Starters After many failed attempts at starting an onlinr forum, I decided that I would start a forum about helping others start a forum. I did some reaserch on the subject and began the process. One of the resources I found during my reaserch phase was a forum called CommunityAdmins.com which was started by and is run by Patrick O'Keefe. The forum is bustling with activity and there is some very good ...             The Economics of European Integration: Theory, Practice, Policy1 review Willem Molle Ashgate Publishing, 1997 As a teacger who has adopted this book, its excellent! I have used this book as the main reference for an honors senior seminar here at the American University of Paris and have found it to be an excellent text for analysis and documentation. Willem Molle, the author, knows the EU from within and as such he can explained it better than any other author that I have used in this connection             Health Online: How To Find Health Information, Support Groups, And Self Help Communities In Cyberspace1 review Tom Ferguson Da Capo Press, 1996 Face-to-Face Is Not Enough Between 7:00pm and 1:00am is a good time to get answers to a health care system moving from the traditional office face-to-facing with doctors to self-managed lay medicine online. A good way to surf these Internet health and medical resources is by signing up with a computer network, such as America Online, CompuServe, Delphi, eWorld, Genie, Microsoft Windows 95, Prodigy, The Well, or Women's ...             Learning, Culture and Community in Online Education: Research And Practice (Digital Formations, V. 21.)1 review Peter Lang Publishing, 2004 Excellent Reference for Distance Education Programs This book is an excellent reference for Distance Education Programs and for Distance Education Researchers. The book has largely been inspired by the practice and research in the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science's LEEP program, an online distance education program which combines synchronous and asynchronous sessions, using such ...             The Well: A Story of Love, Death & Real Life in the Seminal Online Community9 reviews Katie Hafner Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2001 A remarkable book This is a terrific book. I appreciate that Katie Hafner understands her strength to be narrative. Limiting the focus of her narrative to the lives of a few of the core founders and early pioneers of the Well allows her to reach the sort of depth I recall experiencing there when I was a "Well being" for a time in the late eighties. I mostly hung out in the Parenting conference, because I was the ...             A Light Blazes in the Darkness: Advent Devotionals from an Intentional Online Community1 review Theresa Coleman Lulu.com, 2005 Excellent Resource What a wonderful book! A great resource to have as we reflect on important matters during Advent. The RevGalBlogPals have done a great job with this one.             Community Building on the Web : Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities24 reviews Amy Jo Kim Peachpit Press, 2000 Best book by far for online community building I'm an independent consultant on interactive technologies and web community building. I've read a number of books and articles giving advice about online communities, and none comes close to matching Amy Jo Kim's. Her book is the most exceptional in integrating human and technical considerations; describing how sites can launch, expand and evolve; giving lots of first-hand examples; and being ...             The Self-Help Group Sourcebook: Your Guide to Community & Online Support Groups1 review American Self-Help Group Clearinghouse, 2002 Review of Self-help Sourcebook I've owned every edition of this sourcebook since it was first published. It has grown larger and larger over the years as new groups have formed in real space and on the Internet. I wouldn't be without this book because it addresses almost every concern known. In addition to the basic information on groups and how to reach them, the sourcebook provides some useful definitions of terms, ...             Smart Start-Ups: How Entrepreneurs and Corporations Can Profit by Starting Online Communities20 reviews David Silver Wiley, 2007 Invaluable for all entrepreneurs! After reading countless books that all seem to re-hash the same general "nuts-and-bolts" information, this book blew me away. David goes as far as telling you what to do, how to do it, why you should do it, and how to make millions doing it. Truly a one-of-a-kind book and author. I recommend this book to all entrepreneurs, whether starting or running an online, or offline business. The insight ...             Marketing to the Social Web: How Digital Customer Communities Build Your Business14 reviews Larry Weber Wiley, 2007 Small start-up or multi-national conglomerate can benefit from reading this! Larry Weber has a way with words and he cuts to the chase in this book on what needs to be done to keep your company on the cutting edge of social marketing. If you feel like you're 'out of the loop' in today's marketing and public relations world, read this book... if you feel your company is doing it all it can do but not achieving the results you'd expect, you're going to find insights here ...             The Rough Guide to MySpace & Online Communities 1 (Rough Guide Reference)1 review Rough Guides Rough Guides, 2007 Get this little guide that covers most of what you need or want to know about online communities and MySpace in particular! I loved this booklet. It is small, but stuffed with lots of content, and was very well outlined and written. It is a guide for anyone who wants to quickly get a feel for online communities, participating in online communities, building a real presence in online communities, or marketing through online communities. It is broken into six parts: 1. The basics [1-4] 2. Welcome to MySpace [5-13] ...             Tune In, Log On: Soaps, Fandom, and Online Community (New Media Cultures)1 review Nancy K. Baym Sage Publications, Inc, 1999 A "Must Buy!" If you're a fan of soap operas, and communication about them on the internet, this is the BOOK for you! Ms. Baym's book is filled with insightful and thought-provoking information on a group of individuals in a newsgroup on the internet who all came together to discuss the good and bad of their favorite soap opera(s). And along the way, found a community of friends they never thought ...             Online Community Information: Creating a Nexus at Your Library1 review Joan C. Durrance, Karen E. Pettigrew American Library Association, 2002 Setting up and managing an Internet community network The collaboration of Joan C. Durrance (Professor, University of Michigan School of Information) and Karen E. Pettigrew (Assistant Professor, Information School of the University of Washington), Online Community Information: Creating A Nexus At Your Library is dedicated to helping librarians better serve the needs of their patrons in the 21st century. Individual chapters clearly spell out ...              search for books assistive, classroom, collaboration, communication, communities, community, corporations, cyberspace, devotionals, disabilities, discussion, economics, education, effective, entrepreneurs, everything, formations, information, integration, intentional, marketing, reference, reflections, resources, scattered, self-help, sourcebook, strategies, successful, technologies books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Helping Victims of Sexual Abuse Impressum - about us get your own shoutbox