The Online Community Toolkit

The online toolkit contains a number of different applications. Your goals and objectives will help determine what tools work best for your situation. The following list is a small sampling of what is out there. Rather than overwhelm, I've chosen to list the ones I've used and found beneficial.

Website Hosting

• Dreamhost - This hosting facility is inexpensive and contains many of the services needed to startup a full featured website.
• Google Apps - The free standard package for hosting your domain apps. like mail.

Online Groups

• Yahoo Groups - Yahoo Groups was there before Google Groups and still has more features and functions.
• Google Groups 

Blog Sites

• Dreamhost has WordPress as a built-in feature
• Blogger.com - This is home ot byemarks.blogspot.com
• Tumblr - Quick blogging on links, photos and video

Photo Blog

• Flickr - The favorite for photo blogging
• Photobucket - Another popular photo site
• Buzznet

Social Networks

• Facebook - Gaining in popularity because of its APIs.
• LinkedIn - Social network for grownups
• Ning - Build your own Social Network
• Yahoo 360 - Yahoo social network
• Orkut - Google's social network
• Friendster -
• Tribe -
• Myspace -
• Xanga -

Wikis

• PBWiki - Home of Bytemarks Wiki
• Wikipedia - Mother of all wikis

Presence

• Twitter - One way post to your friends, limited to 140 characters
• Twitpic - Send picture links to Twitter from your mobile phone
• Jaiku - Twitter and RSS aggregator
• Pownce - More short messaging
• YouTube - Mega video site
• Utterz - Audio sharing

Lifecasting

• Ustream - Live streaming video
• Kyte - Create your own broadcast station
• Stickam - Live video for the Myspace crowd

Chat

• Meebo - Live chat aggregator

Presentations

• SlideShare - Good presentation by Jeremiah Owyang
• CommonCraft - Tech concepts made simple

Forums

• Lefora - Free forum software
• HawaiiThreads - Popular Hawaii forum

Miscellaneous

• Favicons - Create those 16x16 favicons