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art: deviant art is an artist's community; get feedback on your art and connect with other artists - great learning community

Daytum helps you collect, categorize, and communicate your everyday data

Bright Hub's goal is simple: share knowledge about how the simplest scientific idea evolves into tomorrow's technology. With an expert writer network and an active community of life-long enthusiasts Bright Hub provides a level of technology transparency rarely seen in high tech. The team of writers and managing editors utilize deep domain expertise to focus on creating valuable information for both novice and advanced consumers. With a content inventory of thousands of science and technology articles, software and hardware reviews, buyer's guides, blog entries and forum discussions, Bright Hub is able to provide readers with a dependable resource to make informative technology decisions.

Anonymity, Invisibility, Stop/start communication, voices in your head, imaginary worlds, lack of police, and "winging it" contribute to disinhibited behavior with myriad results.

a full featured web site creation package solely for the academic community. Scholars create web sites in seconds and can easily manage everything for themselves, for free.

"Search lesson plans under every subject and grade level. Add your own, share lesson plans. Use the lesson plan template to create a lesson plan. Rate and review lesson plans. Create a custom lesson plan. Download and print lesson plans."

PC World's discussion threads on troubleshooting and repair

edublog2008 winner (best educational wiki); Center for Global Teaching

The Flat Classroom Project is a global, collaborative project using Web 2.0 tools to foster communication, collaboration and creation. For inspiration and content material it draws on the work of Thomas Friedman and 'The World is Flat'. Read more about the project background and view 2006 and 2007 archives.

The Center for Social Media in the School of Communication at American University - project funded by MacArthur Foundation to clarify fair use in media education. Learn your rights under the fair use doctrine!

Twiducate: create a private (relatively secure) online community in your classroom to share ideas, stay connected, get to know one another better

VizWorld: "where the graphics & visualization community goes for news and insight";

Twitter: Education & Literacy community

Twitter: Mashable's Twitter Guide Book - a guidebook for new and experienced twitter users. How to build community, customize your profile, issues to consider, things to avoid.

Rethinking Net Safety Together: dispelling myths about how kids use social media and how we might keep them safe (filmed in Second Life)

SoundTransit: a collaborative, online community dedicated to field recording and phonography

the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system. Developed by the Association of Research Libraries, SPARC has become a catalyst for change. Its pragmatic focus is to stimulate the emergence of new scholarly communication models that expand the dissemination of scholarly research and reduce financial pressures on libraries. Action by SPARC in collaboration with stakeholders - including authors, publishers, and libraries - builds on the unprecedented opportunities created by the networked digital environment to advance the conduct of scholarship. Leading academic organizations have endorsed SPARC.

Nice article on building communities in virtual worlds. Some very real insights there that were new to me. I was hoping to add a comment on the importance of providing community members with a "place to call their own" but could not figure out how to do that.

using proxy servers to be anonymous in internet communications