# Books on community building **URL:** \ **Category:** Community Building\ **Created:** [2016年二月23日 08:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/books-on-community-building/40029 "2016-02-23T08:51:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dosch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dosch/32/51426_2.png) [@dosch](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dosch)\ **Post date:** [2016年二月23日 08:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/books-on-community-building/40029/1 "2016-02-23T08:51:39Z")
In the post explaining “[What do user trust levels do?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-do-user-trust-levels-do/4924/2)” @codinghorror references the book ‘Communtiy building on the web’. I just started reading it and found it very useful on a meta level. Sadly the examples used are grosly outdated as the book is from 2000. (geocities is used as a prima example of how a thriving community works 😃 ) One nice other book I found myself is [The Art of Community Building by Jono Bacon](http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/) So I was wondering which books people like and found useful to learn the art of online community building. ---
**Author:** ![alefattorini](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alefattorini/32/119928_2.png) [@alefattorini](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alefattorini)\ **Post date:** [2016年二月23日 10:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/books-on-community-building/40029/2 "2016-02-23T10:07:59Z")
[Richard Millington’s “Buzzing Communities”](https://www.feverbee.com/buzzing-communities/) is hugely recommended 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PabloC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pabloc/32/49633_2.png) [@PabloC](https://meta.discourse.org/u/PabloC)\ **Post date:** [2016年二月23日 10:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/books-on-community-building/40029/3 "2016-02-23T10:28:15Z")
> **[Building Successful Online Communities: Evidence-Based Social Design : Kraut,...](https://www.amazon.es/-/en/Building-Successful-Online-Communities-Evidence-Based/dp/0262016575)** > > Building Successful Online Communities: Evidence-Based Social Design : Kraut, Robert E., Resnick, Paul, Kiesler, Sara, Burke, Moira, Chen, Yan, Kittur, Niki, Konstan, Joseph, Ren, Yuqing, Riedl, John: Amazon.es: Books Highly recommended. Includes plenty of references to go deeper on the topic. ---
**Author:** ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)\ **Post date:** [2016年二月23日 11:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/books-on-community-building/40029/4 "2016-02-23T11:05:55Z")
Clay Shirky’s “Here Comes Everybody” and “Cognitive Surplus” are both great reads (and are best read in that order). They’re primarily about self-forming communities, but that’s really a key ingredient to any community; some are just helped along more than others. > **[Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations: Shirky,...](https://www.amazon.com/Here-Comes-Everybody-Organizing-Organizations/dp/0143114948)** > > Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations \[Shirky, Clay\] on Amazon.com. \*FREE\* shipping on qualifying offers. Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations > **[Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators: Shirky,...](https://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Surplus-Technology-Consumers-Collaborators/dp/0143119583)** > > Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators \[Shirky, Clay\] on Amazon.com. \*FREE\* shipping on qualifying offers. Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators ---
**Author:** ![purldator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@purldator](https://meta.discourse.org/u/purldator)\ **Post date:** [2016年二月26日 18:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/books-on-community-building/40029/5 "2016-02-26T18:14:12Z")
@alefattorini mentioned one of my favorite books on the subject; consider this an extra 👍 for Buzzing Communities. @HAWK helps helm [the companion community, Feverbee](https://experts.feverbee.com). The following two personal suggestions (and favorites) are considered “dry” reading. That, for someone like me, means “really insightful text requiring tenacity of the subject to digest in a gleeful hyperfocus”. If you are into community management, these two books are engaging, no matter the diction. > **[Design to Thrive: Creating Social Networks and Online Communities that Last:...](https://www.amazon.com/Design-Thrive-Creating-Networks-Communities/dp/0123749212)** > > Design to Thrive: Creating Social Networks and Online Communities that Last \[Howard, Tharon\] on Amazon.com. \*FREE\* shipping on qualifying offers. Design to Thrive: Creating Social Networks and Online Communities that Last > **[Amazon.com: Cultivating Communities of Practice: 9781578513307: Etienne Wenger,...](https://www.amazon.com/Cultivating-Communities-Practice-Etienne-Wenger/dp/1578513308)** > > Amazon.com: Cultivating Communities of Practice: 9781578513307: Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, William M. Snyder: Books _Design To Thrive_ focuses on creating community culture. _Cultivating Communities of Practice_ may entice intranet communities for corporations and those communities built around a subject with a lot of valuable user-driven information lasting beyond the community itself. And, while this next suggestion and personal favorite is not a book _on_ the subject of community management, it is _highly relevant_ as a logical tangent. How to manage _yourself_ among a _lot_ of users and staff. > **[People Can't Drive You Crazy If You Don't Give Them the Keys: How to Improve...](https://www.amazon.com/People-Cant-Drive-Crazy-Dont/dp/080072111X)** > > People Can't Drive You Crazy If You Don't Give Them the Keys: How to Improve Relationships, Find More Joy, and Break Free from Other People's Choices and Behaviors \[Dr. Mike Bechtle\] on Amazon.com. \*FREE\* shipping on qualifying offers. People Can't... It focuses on three general options when it comes to someone in your life you feel you can “do without” (air quotes). Choose one. 1. Attempt to change the someone. 2. :dealwithit: 3. Place the someone out of your life, or at least knock them down the lower digits (ie, away from single digits) on your life’s priority list. This is a very general summary that only teases by a glimmer to the wealth of personal and highly self-empowering info contained in the book. Also, how to possibly understand situations involving “problem” users. Replace “you”: **People can’t drive your community crazy if your community doesn’t give them the keys.** ---
**Author:** ![AnonymousPerson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/anonymousperson/32/50632_2.png) [@AnonymousPerson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AnonymousPerson)\ **Post date:** [2016年二月26日 18:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/books-on-community-building/40029/6 "2016-02-26T18:15:20Z")
Thanks for the book recommendations. ---
**Author:** ![hellekin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hellekin/32/51636_2.png) [@hellekin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hellekin)\ **Post date:** [2016年二月26日 20:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/books-on-community-building/40029/7 "2016-02-26T20:31:00Z")
There’s a single author I always come back to: [**Howard Rheingold**](http://rheingold.com/ "Howard Rheingold | Exploring mind amplifiers since 1964"). His book [The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier](http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/) was published in 1993. Don’t let that stop you from reading it! He [wrote extensively](http://rheingold.com/writing/) about technology and online communities. I’ll recommend two articles: - [The Art of Hosting Good Conversations Online](http://www.rheingold.com/texts/artonlinehost.html) (1999) - [Building Fun Online Learning Communities](http://www.rheingold.com/texts/education/moose.html) (1998) ---
**Author:** ![PabloC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pabloc/32/49633_2.png) [@PabloC](https://meta.discourse.org/u/PabloC)\ **Post date:** [2016年二月28日 13:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/books-on-community-building/40029/8 "2016-02-28T13:50:48Z")
Another interesting book on the topic. It has an updated guide to the approach. > **[Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation : Bacon, Jono:...](https://www.amazon.es/-/en/Art-Community-Building-New-Participation/dp/1449312063)** > > Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation : Bacon, Jono: Amazon.es: Books ---
**Author:** ![iamntz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/iamntz/32/114670_2.png) [@iamntz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/iamntz)\ **Post date:** [2016年二月28日 14:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/books-on-community-building/40029/9 "2016-02-28T14:41:29Z")
Not really a book, but the presentation of Joel was pretty nice: [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/3/d/0/3d0a0789a1897d79a2b4ee203e939480a2c4e86e.jpeg "Joel Spolsky - hack.summit() 2016 by Pluralsight") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hEtQ70scho) ---
**Author:** ![hellekin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hellekin/32/51636_2.png) [@hellekin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hellekin)\ **Post date:** [2016年二月29日 08:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/books-on-community-building/40029/10 "2016-02-29T08:59:22Z")
This presentation references Clay Shirky’s [A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy](http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html). @codinghorror used this title to [blog about Kuro5hin and the importance of moderation](https://blog.codinghorror.com/a-group-is-its-own-worst-enemy/) 11 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![meglio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/meglio/32/71444_2.png) [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)\ **Post date:** [2018年一月7日 02:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/books-on-community-building/40029/12 "2018-01-07T02:38:40Z")
我刚刚查看了 [亚马逊的“在线社区”搜索结果](https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=online+community&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Aonline+community)，随后在 Meta 上发现了这个帖子，才意识到原来有人读关于社区建设的书籍 🙃 我相信真正的实践胜过任何好书：在你甚至还没来得及阅读之前，通过亲身实践，你会获得一些难以用语言描述的微妙知识。有时候你只是直觉地知道该做这件事或那件事，而且它确实会奏效。 不过，我依然非常喜爱书籍，也想感谢所有在此分享推荐的人。 我还想推荐大家阅读 [Discourse 使用案例博客系列](https://blog.discourse.org/category/use-cases/) 以及 [从 Facebook 迁移到 Discourse](https://blog.discourse.org/2017/03/moving-from-facebook-groups-to-discourse/)。尽管这些内容大多属于营销材料，但其中仍有许多值得汲取的有趣观点和想法。 此外，还有一些在线社区，人们主要在那里分享他们建设在线社区的经验（例如 FeverBee）。Meta 上也有整个 #Community Building 分类。不知为何，我直觉地认为，阅读真实人物的经历与失败教训，能教会你很多东西，而且比阅读关于在线社区的书籍更加多元。现在，既然这个帖子已经有些年头了，而且其中有些人已经读过一本或多本相关书籍，我想请教大家一个问题：请分享你们的反馈——这些书籍在实际的社区建设工作中是否真的有用？这相当于对这些书籍进行一次“事后回顾”式的重读。 ---
**Author:** ![Irwin\_Binamungu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/irwin_binamungu/32/88422_2.png) [@Irwin\_Binamungu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Irwin_Binamungu)\ **Post date:** [2018年二月3日 16:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/books-on-community-building/40029/13 "2018-02-03T16:09:19Z")
[Managing Online Forums: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Run Successful Community Discussion Boards by [Patrick O’Kee].](https://www.amazon.com/Managing-Online-Forums-Everything-Successful/dp/081440197X) Other than the technical bits, i think the book will help us newbies learn how to manage our platforms without feeling like our heads are about to burst.