http://www.wdil.org Online Community Building has evolved since the days of forums, messageboards, listserves, and chatrooms. Blogs and Social Software create new types of communities which are decentralized and require additional community building strategies. Centralized communities are still thriving, however, and the community building strategies developed around forums and older forms of online communities still apply, and can be adapted to new communities. hourly 6 2007-04-16T13:56:54Z