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| Poor Richard's Building Online Communities: Create a Web Community for Your Business, Club, Association, or Family | 
| Authors: Margaret Levine Young, John R. Levine
Publisher: Top Floor Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (6 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1805310
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 386
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7.1 x 1
ISBN: 0966103297
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.67
EAN: 9780966103298
ASIN: 0966103297
Publication Date: January 15, 2000
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On-line communities work for the same reasons traditional communities work-because of the relationships members form, the information they gather, and the entertainment they view. All provide immediate value and comfort. Poor Richard's Building Online Communities shows how anyone with Internet access can create an on-line community and describes the many advantages. For business, Web communities provide tightly targeted audiences for higher ad rates, more efficient merchandising, excellent word-of-mouth publicity, and customer loyalty. On-line communities can also be used to promote a special interest group or help an organization communicate with its members. This book explains how to create a place on the Web where customers, members, or friends can post announcements, view photos, have discussions, make recommendations, post events, share thoughts, and meet others with similar interests or questions. Such communities are perfect for Scout groups, professional associations, sports clubs, schools, fraternities and sororities, families spread around the globe, and any other group of two or more people who want to share information and experiences.
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 Good book for non-profits and small organizations March 7, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As someone new working in the world of online communities, I found this book to be a great resource. It provides not only technical tips but also gets at the larger social issues of how to manage communities, help them grow, deal with problems, etc. Good overview of lots of topics with links and references of where to go to get more information.
 Focuses on inexpensive methods of achieving February 22, 2001
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Create a web community for a business or family using the power of the Internet and this 'Poor Richard's' guide, which focuses on inexpensive methods of achieving such a goal. From locating and participating in mailing lists to joining web-based communities for business and pleasure, this imparts the basics of understanding how such groups function.
Information, AJdvice and Good Leads January 15, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
As a Community Director for a website that talks to/with huge numbers of consumers daily, I found this book really, really helpful. It outlined several different approaches to the Community challenges without espousing one way only. This is great because not every site has the same needs for a their community. The links to other helpful sources alone were well worth the price of the book. All the advice and information was useable, applicable--nothing was so radical or off-beat that we could not relate. It is now on my desk as a reference tool as we build and rebuild our Community porton of our website.
 An excellant hard copy resource December 20, 2000
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Community building is a fast growing concern, both on the Internet and off. Margaret Levine Young and John Levine's Poor Richard's Building Online Communities is a valuable treasure of knowledge to a vast assortment of Internet related communities.I found it a difficult book 'to read' simply because the material is only relevant to the specific job (or focus) at hand. I think that its greatest value would be found in troubleshooting and dealing with various services or utilities that are, or will be outdated if they are not already. There is also a wealth of more important, timeless information such as the purposes behind building online communities and the various manner of acceptable and unacceptable behaviour for each type of community. I don't wish to belittle the value of the book, or all the information and insight that it does provide. There is information here that is unlikely to appear in any other books on community building, such as the one by Amy Jo Kim's. If you can afford to...Building Online Communities completes or enhances a community building library.
I'm one of the authors, and here's what we had in mind! November 10, 2000
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
John and I have written a lot of books "For Dummies," including "The Internet For Dummies," and we have been involved in online communities for years. The topic has become glitzy of late, but we want people to know that you don't have to be a big company or have a large budget to be able to create and run online communities for your friends, co-hobbyists, family, or customers."Poor Richard's Building Online Community" is intended for individuals or small organizations that want to use the Internet to host discussions. Does your church want to run Bible study classes online? Would you like to discuss your hobby or favorite books with others who share your interests? Does your company need a way to get your sales managers together for online meetings? Would the teachers in your school district benefit from an online way to share schedules and ideas? You can set up online communities for groups like these at little or no cost. The book gives step-by-step instructions for joining or creating communities in the form of mailing lists, newgroups, and Web-based message boards and chat rooms. We also give advice about how to set and enforce rules for participation, so your community is a pleasant and useful experience for its members. For more information about the book, take a look at its Web site at http://community.gurus.com/. And thanks for your interest!
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