Resources for Building Online Communities

This post lists several sites that discuss aspects of the process of building learning communities--some focus specifically on online communities and others are more about the face-to-face experience. The first one is something I came across, and the rest were discovered by my students. In those cases, I included a link back to their original blog posts.

How To Build An Online Community
http://www.feverbee.com/2010/01/how-to-build-an-online-community-the-ultimate-list-of-resources.html

Seven Keys to Building Healthy Online Community
http://www.yelvington.com/content/seven-keys-building-healthy-online-community
Originally posted: http://cohort2010-karen.blogspot.com/2010/02/online-vs-face-to-face.html

Skills required for maintaining a successful online learning community
http://massageonline.wordpress.com/2007/11/18/skills-required-for-maintaining-a-successful-online-learning-community
Originally posted: http://jbutikofer.blogspot.com/2010/02/keys-to-successful-online-learning.html

Professional Learning Communities Virtual Workshop
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/virtualwkshp/virtualwkshp005.shtml
Originally posted: http://schomig.blogspot.com/2010/02/schomig-and-final-project-2-10-10.html

Transform Your Group into a Team
http://www.nsdc.org/members/tools/tools11-05.pdf
Originally posted: http://schomig.blogspot.com/2010/02/schomig-and-final-project-2-10-10.html