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Welcome to the home page of Poor Richard's Building Online Communities! Here you'll find updates to the book and links to other information about virual community.
Updates to the Book
- eGroups has been purchased by Yahoo and folded into Yahoo Groups. Go to http://groups.yahoo.com to try it out.
- Excite has closed down its Excite Clubs site, although its Excite Chat site still works.
- AltaVista has closed its AltaVista Communities.
- Deja.com was acquired by Google.com, so its Usenet search site is now at http://groups.google.com/.
- Remarq.com no longer offers a searchable directory of mailing list and newsgroup messages, but directs you to http://www.supernews.com/.
- Snap Clubs have been acquired by NBC, and are at http://clubs.nbci.com/.
- MailMan is an excellent new mailing list management program. Information is available at http://www.list.org/.
- The Community Manager Network site at http://www.communitymanager.net/ contains information for professional online community managers.
Let us know if you find any other resources that have moved (or have trouble finding them!).
- Resources for Online Community Managers: Here's the online, updated version of the Appendix. Why type in URLs when you can click them?
- The Mailing List Gurus Page: The authors of the book wrote a Web site just for mailing list managers.
- Other Poor Richard's Books: Top Floor Publishing has other great no-nonsense books about the Internet, including Poor Richard's Web Site and Poor Richard's Internet Marketing and Promotions.
- Other Books We Wrote: Like our book? Then check out the other books we've written, including Internet: The Complete Reference, Internet Secrets, and lots of For Dummies books.
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