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John Coate and the WELL: Looking Ahead by Looking Back at an Early Online Community
John Coates at VIRCOMM Summit
There are core principles about online community that John Coate's body of work reminds us are a fundamental part of whatever flavor of online community building we do. Starting in 1992, and revised twice since, Coate's wrote an essay called "InnKeeping in CyberSpace" which still serves as an up-to-the-minute guide to online community best practices.[read more]
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