Community Providers

Agora Studios
Involved in planning, building and growing online communities. Hosts facilities such as message boards, member profiles and customized features.
http://www.agorastudios.com

CIX Online
For fee suite of integrated internet services. Provides mail, calendars, address books, document storage, and conferencing. The mail section has virus and spam protection.
http://web.conferencing.co.uk/

Community Architect
Create your own online community or join one complete with free web hosting, free email, instant messenger and other website building tools.
http://www.communityarchitect.com/

Community Connect Inc.
Provides free personal pages, email, forums, news, chat, instant messaging, games, promotions and online events. [Uses Flash]
http://www.communityconnect.com/

CommunityPeople.net
Hosting services for online community facilities such as member profiles, events, instant messaging, online chat, message forums, email discussion groups and online polls.
http://www.communitypeople.net/

CommunityZero
Provides any group of people with the ability to establish a private and interactive online community.
http://www.communityzero.com/

Cytopia
Offers a link manager, task manager, weblog manager, personal home page space, message boards, and webmail. [Requires Flash]
http://www.cytopia.net

eKith.com.
Offer webmail, groups, chat, directory services, contacts, and favorites.
http://ekith.com

Electric Minds
Long-lived electronic community.
http://www.electricminds.org/

MSN Groups
Free interest-group site hosting from Microsoft Network. Offers many features; customizable by the group website owner.
http://groups.msn.com/

Mycomport
Web community portal creation and tools.
http://mycomport.com/

SKIZZLE! by RootFolder Communications
Online community offering personal storage and workgroup collaboration. Features Clubs, message boards, databases, file sharing and other personal and community productivity tools. Also features a search engine and free membership.
http://www.skizzle.com/

Syndicomm Online
'Syndicates' communities with message boards, chat rooms via both telnet and World Wide Web connections. Join one of the active communities, or create your own.
http://www.syndicomm.com

WhatHelps?
Provides topical hosting services for your community homepage, community building tools (like chat, board and discussion lists) and member tools (like member websites, webmail and instant messaging).
http://whathelps.com