[Air-L] Virtual community building and maintenance in the social media age

[Heather Leson]

Hello,

This is the first time I am posting to this list - I am a community builder
and advisor/board member for a number of large global open communities. The
top two places are Community Roundtable and Community Leadership Summit.
Both are full of resources, books, talks, reports, metrics, frameworks and
leaders.

Over the years, I've collected a list of books, blogs, talks and community
manager resources that I share frequently.  (link
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Lq1ZO4DhxUXv0-CiFxz0Yv8mmryD-fw0yAZZwR7U1V8/edit#>)



Heather

Heather Leson
heatherleson at gmail.com
Twitter/skype: HeatherLeson
Blog: textontechs.com

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 4:51 AM, SAMUEL KININMONTH <
101083057 at student.swin.edu.au> wrote:

> Hey David,
>
>
> Starting a subreddit on reddit could be an easy way to get your students
> started quickly? reddit is pretty reminiscent of old BBSs.
>
>
> Further to that, I found Massanari (2015) to be a really helpful resource,
> not only for reddit but much social media.
>
>
> Massanari, A.L., 2015. Participatory Culture, Community, and Play.
> Learning from Reddit. Peter Lang GmbH.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Samuel Kininmonth
>
> Arts Honours Candidate
>
> Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
>
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> Subject: [Air-L] Virtual community building and maintenance in the social
> media age
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I will be teaching a course next semester on virtual community building
> and management, blending theory and practice. A few years ago, I felt
> pretty confident that I could put together a reading list of books on
> virtual community management and be comfortable it would cover what is
> needed. But that was before social media. Now (depending on the purpose of
> a virtual community itself) I might not even recommend a website-based
> virtual community at all – for all of the vexed issues of platform
> ownership, a Facebook group or even Twitter hashtag might be a better
> solution for some groups. Are you aware of any good books and articles
> (preferably academic but not necessarily) which bring virtual community
> advice up-to-date to take into consideration managing virtual communities
> spread across multiple platforms, some of which a virtual community manager
> has no direct control over?
>
> The books I am currently considering teaching from are:
>
> Kim, A. J. (2000). Community building on the Web. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit
> Press.
> Powazek, D. M. (2002). Design for community: the art of connecting real
> people in virtual places. Indianapolis, Ind.: New Riders.
> O'Keefe, P. (2008). Managing online forums: everything you need to know to
> create and run successful community discussion boards. New York: AMACOM.
> Bacon, J. (2012). The art of community: Building the new age of
> participation (2nd ed.). Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Retrieved
> from http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/ <http://www.
> artofcommunityonline.org/>
> Kraut, R. E., Resnick, P., & Kiesler, S. (2012). Building successful
> online communities evidence-based social design. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT
> Press.
>
> I am also considering:
>
> Howard, T.W. (2010). Design to thrive: Creating social networks and online
> communities that last. Burlington, MA: Morgan Kaufmann
>
> He talks about social networks vs online communities but seems to suggest
> they are mutually exclusive while I would say you can layer an online
> community on top of a social network or use the latter to bring people into
> the former.
>
> Anyway, I am keen either to find a book that properly takes the new social
> media options into account when talking about virtual community or at least
> a book or article that gestures towards the existing conventional wisdom
> and suggests what the new social media can add.
>
> I will happily feed back to the list or interested people the curated list
> that results...
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
>
> David
> --
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> Author of "Sharing Our Lives Online: Risks and Exposure in Social Media”
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