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Dear LM_NET, The following is an interesting quotation from a recent EDUPAGE newsletter. Peter Milbury pmilbury@oavax.csuchico.edu HOW TO MAKE VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES WORK Mike Godwin of the Electronic Frontier Foundation offers nine principles for making virtual communities work. Use software that promotes good discussions; don't impose a length limitations on postings; front-load your systems with talkative, diverse people; let the users resolve their own disputes; provide institutional memory; promote continuity; be host to a particular interest group; provide places for children; most important: confront the users with a crisis (events like the Oakland fire or LambdaMOO's cyberspace rape crystallize users' sense of belonging to a place they care about). (Wired June 94 p.92) (The original complete article is in Wired magazine, June, 1994.) *********************************************************************** Edupage. To add your name to the Edupage distribution list, send e-mail to: listproc@educom.edu. In the body of the message type: sub edupage <your name>. To unsubscribe send the message: unsub edupage. Edupage is also available in Portuguese and Spanish: edunews@nc-rj.rnp.br. For archive copies of Edupage or Update, gopher to educom.edu or look at our WWW server: URL: http://educom.edu/.index.html. To communicate with Edupage or Educom, send mail to comments@educom.edu or info@educom.edu. ************************************************************************ --