“Community Building on the Web” is still available
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Oct 172006
Recently I blogged about the Next Gen list of core books for everyone in the game industry. A few of the books on that list are hard to find or out of print. One of the best of them is Amy Jo Kim’s Community Building on the Web: Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities — which it turns out you can obtain as a PDF by clicking on this link. Hooray for e-publishing! This is the best book I have ever read on online community formation and design, and it hasn’t become dated much at all even though it came out in 2000. Once, Alex Pham from the LA Times borrowed my (autographed) copy, and I pestered her for a year to get it back. 🙂
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My Amazon Review:
“Community Building on the Web: Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities” raises the bar in the online communities field.
I’ve been in the Virtual Communities business for almost 25 years. During those years, everyone pretty much had to build their online communities by the seat of their pants. We were usually cursed to commit the same mistakes that so many others had encountered along the way. Many times communities would seem to run well for months, and then they would become popular, and then fail! Other times, otherwise interesting communities would languish for lack of a clear “Mission Statement” or poorly managed Terms of Service. In short, there was very little benefiting from other people’s successes and failures.
This book changes all of that, forever! (Thank goodness!)
Amy Jo Kim brings together all of the fundamental building blocks needed to create a solid foundation for a successful web-based community. She provides the intellectual planning tools you need to help you understand what your community is about, how it will function, and how to help it grow.
If you don’t understand online communities, this is THE book that will help you “get it.”
Save yourself the first $3,000 of Community Web Site consulting, buy this book instead and use it!
This book instantly became required reading at my company, Communities.com. It immediately started saving us staff training time!
F. Randall Farmer Cofounder, Communities.com
I just got this Im reading it today, its Really good