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What is the easiest way to find a list of online communities without entering their domain names into a search engine / URL bar?

  • In other words: If you already know their names, then you don't really need to find them. So: How do you find an online community without knowing its name?

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    In this day and age, most online communities want to make themselves available.  So the problem reduces to going to the places where they might hang out a shingle and looking for them there.  Of course, you don't know their names, so you have to search by either a topic or by a keyword that appears in their description.  That is not really that hard. The places to look are pretty obvious, but let me list some of the best.  If I have missed any, others are invited to add them in the comments or in their own answer.  Here are some good starting places: LinkedIn groups Meetup groups Yahoo groups In both LinkedIn and Meetup, you can look at the personal profiles of some of the high-profile members of one or two communities that you know to be relevant.  Look at their other groups, and you may find similar groups or really interesting complementary groups. There is a second step you can take.  If you assume that someone on a blog or on Quora or another Q&A site may have listed the names of online communities in a particular domain, you can use Google to help you find others.  In the Google search bar enter two or three of the top groups--more than one, but not too many.  Then you may find a site that lists these communities alongside others you have not found before.

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Here's a few ideas. Use a search engine (as google, yahoo, ixquick) to search For example-->online community "cystic fibrosis" Think of a place that might list it Again, a few examples from the health area  http://MedlinePlus.gov   Webcina.com-Medicine in Social Media A general search engine search--> "online communities" for lists (remember no list is ever complete) You have a good question. Since there are so many online communities, it is kinda hard to give a specific answer to a general question. If you have a topic in mind, or any additional information about a kind of online community, let me know. I'll do my best to come up with some more ideas.

Janice Flahiff

Search for the topic using a search engine, or ask questions in communities such as Quora or more specialized communities more closely related to the community. Most often there is an overlap between communities on a certain topic, so lurking in one community might also provide your informational over other existing communities. You might also want to check out communities that make it easy to create new communities (such as Ning, Wikia, though even LinkedIn might be a good starting point).

Rick Mans

I can not think of a more efficient way, at this stage, than using a search engine. Typing in the subject matter or key words would be easy enough to lead to the site. Perhaps following links could produce a more advanced search if needed.

Vandio Zuccarelli

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