The self-declared "Community of Practice on Communities of Practice," this site offers a variety of opportunities for connection, from education programs to a wiki to members' blogs.
From the Center's "About" page, "The Center for Collective Intelligence brings together faculty from across MIT to conduct research on how new communications technologies are changing they way people work together."
The authors of this site write on all things related to building an audience for and driving traffic to your web presence, be it a blog, twitter, a website, or something else. There is an RSS feed to deliver the regularly published feature articles.
This is the online business journal of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to regularly posting new articles, the site offers a searchable database of over 1500 articles and research abstracts. Podcasts are also available.
According to her fans (see Why I Love Beth's Blog), Beth's Blog provides "deep analysis of social media campaigns, trends, and uses" along with case studies.
Home page of the popular print- and web-based journal. There are some interesting RSS feeds, including Wired Campus and a community college e-newsletter.
"Inside Higher Ed is the online source for news, opinion and jobs for all of higher education." In addition to a daily e-mail, there are also a variety of RSS feeds.
Program of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the page includes program news, news of recent grants and publications, and the relevant program staff.
By Charles Leadbeater. This is the web page for the We-think project, and includes downloads for chapters 1-3, as well as links to other materials related to the book (including an early draft).
With the tagline "scalable innovations for communities," nuPOLIS "is the Internet presence of the Innovation Network for Communities (INC), a national non-profit helping to develop and spread scalable innovations that transform the performance of community systems such as education, energy, land use, transportation and workforce development.
Located within the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, the Center for Social Innovation (CSI) works to "build and strengthen the capacity of individuals and organizations to develop innovative solutions to social problems."
Chris Dede research projects include: Multi-User Virtual Environment (MUVE) based ecosystems science curriculum models for middle school, virtual performance assessments and multi-user virtual environments.
"The London Knowledge Lab is a unique collaboration between...the Institute of Education and Birkbeck" (both UK). Computer scientists and social scientists work together to study issues in education, sociology, media, the semantic web, etc.