Free eBook: The Art of Community
Free eBook “The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation” By Jono Bacon from O’Reilly. In The Art of Community you’ll experience the broad range of talents required to recruit members, motivate them, manage them, and make them happy to be part of your community. Bacon takes you through the different stages of community and covers the information you’ll need, ranging from software tools to conflict resolution skills. Topics include: Sustainable processes for management, Tools and infrastructure, Building buzz, Measuring aspects of community success, Conflict management, Handling live events and Scaling the community.
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Free Online Book: My Digital Footprint
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Free eBook: The Future of the Internet
Free eBook “The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It” by Jonathan Zittrain. This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity—and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation—and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control.
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Free Book: How Wikipedia Works
Free online book “How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It” by Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, and Ben Yates. Wikipedia is made up of people just like you: students, professors, and everyday experts and fans. With about 10,000 articles added to Wikipedia each week, there are plenty of opportunities to join this global community. How Wikipedia Works explains how you can make the Web’s go-to source for information even better.
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Free eBook: How To Bypass Internet Censorship
This free book documents simple circumvention techniques such as a cached file or web proxy, and also describes more complex methods using Tor, which stands for The Onion Router, involving a sophisticated network of proxy servers. Because of concerns about the effect of internet blocking mechanisms, and the implications of censorship, many individuals and groups are working hard to ensure that the Internet, and the information on it, are freely available to everyone who wants it.
Free eBook: Firefox 3 Revealed
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