Online Communities and Social Networking references

The list author says:
	"Deeply informative on degrees-of-separation and peer networks, but not an easy read."

The list author says:
	"Good read on social capital and intra-organization communities of practice. This is from a more traditional view of social networks and SN-analysis, but also describes how they can come about. Similar to "The Hidden Power of Social Networks""

The list author says:
	"Good big-picture view of the issues of knowledge management but lacks the online social networking story,"

The list author says:
	"More updated on knowledge management but still not enough info on online social networking story"

The list author says:
	"Good backgrounder. This is an early book and focuses on the more traditional view of social networks and capital."

The list author says:
	"Great worldwide view of impact of globalization, and points to new opportunities for online communities. Easy to read and very nicely detailed to support the concepts through introspection and interviews."

The list author says:
	"Good coverage of new business opportunity in online catalogs and social interaction. Very good read. Like "The World is Flat" and "The Wisdom of Crowds", it brings out a new idea in terms of high-level-view of products, services, and societies, as well as describing new business opportunities."

The list author says:
	"Good book on how agile smaller companies are taking over the business world. It's a little slow to read but is an early book that came before the Internet really took off. Prescient."

The list author says:
	"Good background on how influencing the right small changes can have a big impact. It talks about the people roles that influence these changes."