Cynthia Typaldos, President and CEO of RealCommunities, discusses the company's 12 Principles of Civilization. This article was also reprinted in South Africa's The Company magazine. Cynthia Typaldos, President and CEO of RealCommunities, has built a successful online community for golfers, has launched a company that makes infrastructure software for communities, and teaches a class aimed at aspiring community builders. The market opportunity is clearly there. The authors highlight RealCommunities in the chapter titled The Future of Online Business Communities .
Community building requires tools.
Communities themselves are so dynamic that these have to be flexible toolsets, ones that can be modified even by the novice. We have found the existing tools to be inadequate, but a recent survey of the newest tools now coming to market offer a glimmer of promise. Here are three examples of new and different approaches that illustrate some of the requirements you should seek in community-building tools. Anatomy of Buzz , a book by Emanuel Rosen, Doubleday, 2000. RealComputing Cynthia Typaldos, President and CEO of RealCommunities, is interviewed by John Dvorak, talk show host for the Internet radio station RealComputing.