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Online Communities: Designing Usability and Supporting Sociability
by Jenny Preece
from Wiley

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• A little outdated but alright
  The internet has changed a lot since this was written but it is still a good book on the basic concepts of Online Communities. I'm not sure if there is a better resource out there yet. I would hope the author would write another version to keep it up-to-date.

• One star is too much
  Another reviewer has written `online communities for dummies'. This
  is essentially correct. A student from medium-high school would
  have nor problem to follow this book. This is, however, not the
  disapointing part. O.K., I still can accept that Jenny Preece explain
  and reexplains even to most simplest notions again and again.
  But what is unacceptable is, that everything written in this book is
  just descriptive. Nowhere in the whole book there is a new idea,
  a new insight or anything... more info

• Sociology of the Internet
  I thought this book was GREAT! Sure, it's dated, but every book about the Internet dates quickly. That's because the Internet is growing and changing faster than the book publishing business can publish a book.

  The author takes us through many aspects of community building and group dynamics point-by-point. I had to take notes, I found it so useful. Ideas are taken from sociology and applied to the Internet. Dry in parts, yes, but very useful as far as clarifying one's ideas about online communities.

  As... more info

• Online Communities for Dummies
  This book appears to be written for those who are ignorant about online communities (and I can't imagine why such a person would pick up this book). I found no insights in this book that would not be obvious to an experienced user/member of online communities. I was recently given a new task at work to manage an online community of practice (for project managers) at my global company, and I was hoping that this book would offer some new insights and ideas. It was a complete disappointment. I found much... more info

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