Free software tools for designing productive community sites
Short URL: http://fsmsh.com/3025 FSM Columnist: Trusted Terry Hancock 2008-10-07 5 Up Down Tags: community , social networking , virtual reality , web applications , wikis Write a full post in response to this! These days there’s a lot of buzz about “Web 2.0” and making websites more interactive, but what’s really going on is a reconnection to the community nature of the internet. Collaboration, cooperation, and the information commons are all ideas that pre-dated the world wide web in the form of older internet technologies. In today’s distributed computing environment, though, these technologies have really flourished. Here’s a guide to eight that you should consider making use of in building a community around an information commons project of any kind, from multimedia, to hardware, to software. Community-building tools The early twenty-first century has brought us some excellent tools for building more sophisticated and responsive communities around peer production p