Books on Community Management and Communities of Practice

Originally posted May 22, 2017

1. Handbook of Community Management: A Guide to Leading Communities of Practice
2. Buzzing Communities: Build Bigger, Better, More Active Online Communities by Richard Millington
3. The Indispensable Community: Why Some Brand Communities Thrive When Others Perish by Richard Millington
4. Build Your Community: Turn your connections into a powerful online community by Richard Millington
5. Online Community Management For Dummies by Deborah Ng
6. The Complete Social Media Community Manager’s Guide: Essential Tools and Tactics for Business Success by Marty Weintraub and Lauren Litwinka
7. The Community Manager’s Playbook: How to Build Brand Awareness and Customer Engagement by Lauren Perkins
8. Design to Thrive: Creating Social Networks and Online Communities that Last by Tharon Howard
9. Building Successful Online Communities: Evidence-Based Social Design by Robert E. Kraut and Paul Resnick
10. Community Building on the Web : Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities by Amy Jo Kim
11. Managing Online Forums: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Run Successful Community Discussion Boards by Patrick O’Keefe
12. Mastering Online Discussion Board Facilitation by Terrie Wessel
13. Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity by Etienne Wenger
14. Cultivating Communities of Practice by Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, and William M. Snyder
15. Digital Habitats: Stewarding Technology for Communities by Etienne Wenger Nancy White, and John D. Smith
16. CompanyCommand: Unleashing the Power of the Army Profession by Nancy M. Dixon, Nate Allen, Tony Burgess, Pete Kilner and Steve Schweitzer
17. The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid
18. Knowledge Networks: Innovation Through Communities of Practice by Paul Hildreth and Chris Kimble
19. Going Virtual: Distributed Communities of Practice by Paul Hildreth
20. Leveraging Communities of Practice for Strategic Advantage by Hubert Saint-Onge and Debra Wallace
21. Beyond Communities of Practice: Language Power and Social Context by David Barton and Karin Tusting
22. Online Communities: Designing Usability and Supporting Sociability by Jenny Preece
23. Building Virtual Communities: Learning and Change in Cyberspace by K. Ann Renninger and Wesley Shumar
24. Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning by Sasha Barab, Rob Kling, and James Gray
25. The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier by Howard Rheingold
26. Communities in Cyberspace by Marc A. Smith
27. Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace: Effective Strategies for the Online Classroom by Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt
28. Collaborating Online: Learning Together in Community by Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt
29. Communities of Practice: Lessons from Leading Collaborative Enterprises by Simon Lelic — Contents — Summary
30. Knowledge and Communities by Eric Lesser, Michael Fontaine, and Jason Slusher
31. The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation by Jono Bacon
32. How to Build Better Learning Communities by Sharon Lina Pearce
33. Building Successful Communities of Practice by Emily Webber
34. The Online Community Blueprint: A 9-Step Guide to Planning an Online Community for Your Customers, Members, or Partners by Katie Bapple, Joshua Paul, and Katie Oakes
35. The Community Manager Handbook by Community Roundtable
36. Other eBooks by The Community Roundtable
37. Books for Community Building by Michael Burns
38. CMX Reading List
39. Additional Book Lists
40. 100 Recommended Books and 25 Reading Lists