Resources for Online Communities

• Chats and Forums

• Aizon.me  - Online service developed to analyze Facebook and Twitter status updates to generate a productivity chart and determine the amount of time wasted on social networking.
• Building Community: Online Resources  - Array of community network papers and presentations from various authors. With community networking stories.
• Community Answers  - Answers community-related queries and offers trainings and resources related to community building.
• Corner Ways  - Offers designing, consulting, and training services for community building endeavors. With introductions on the jargons and essentials of community development.
• Disqus  - Offers a centralized discussion platform for websites and blogs. Allows users to create accounts with profiles that they can use to post comments on sites and blogs that use Disqus.
• Full Circle Associates  - Consulting practice of Nancy White, offers communication, online community development, facilitation, and project management services for commercial and non-profit organizations.
• GameMaki  - Allows users to recommend activities or places and turn them into challenges for friends to complete. Also enables the sharing of personal experiences, photos, and comments.
• Ifttt  - Solution for automatically connecting various online accounts and web applications with each other.
• InstaComment  - Instant and customizable comment system for websites with IP banning and features for allowing visitors to create, quote, edit, or report comments.
• IntenseDebate  - Website and blog comment system supporting comment threading, reply-by-email, email notifications, the creation of commenter profiles, and moderation blacklisting.
• Let Me Apologize  - Provides users a place for freely stating apologies or seeking demands that may be serious, humorous, or embarrassing.
• Online Community Building Concepts  - Guidelines to online community building on the Internet by Gail Ann Williams.
• Pushnote  - Service enabling users to rank favorite films, books, and music as well as rate web pages, copy Twitter and Facebook, and create an all-time favorites list.
• Skillbadge  - Allows users to build a profile and publish a badge that can be used on blogs, social network pages, or websites to display or advertise skills the user is proud of.
• Stor.i.fy  - Allows users to consolidate and annotate related tweets, Twitpic pictures, Facebook updates, and Flickr photos.
• StrawPoll  - Use the strawpoll platform on Twitter and create tiny polls of less than 140 characters.
• Trending Topics  - Updates on the most talked about topics and discussions in the Wikipedia community. Also presents Twitter reactions.
• Twitvid  - Online service that makes it easier to share video on Twitter and Facebook. Uploads videos from a computer, phone, or directly from the webcam.
• Virtual Communities  - Comprehensive collection of resources helpful in discussing, learning about, analyzing, implementing, and troubleshooting online communities.
• Where Do You Go  - Allows users to create heat maps to represent the frequency of their visits to certain locations based on Foursquare check-ins. Makes use of Google Maps.