How to Find Online Communities

How to Find Online Communities 

Message boards and forums are places to go if you love discussing the latest news/world events, debating over new technologies, or anything else. There is a huge variety of message boards and communities to use--and you can start by using search engines and or sites (Twitter, reddit, etc.) to find communities that you will be able to express your opinions and learn from others. 

• Google makes message boards and blogs which makes it easy to find and join different communities 
• Yahoo also makes it easy to find great forums and groups
• reddit is a social news and entertainment site where registered users submit content in the form of links or posts 
• dmoz is a place to start looking-you can click on subjects and find different discussion forums and message boards 

You can also use any search engine to find a message board. Just search [topic message board], and you'll find plenty of results.

General Blogs 

• Mashable is a technology and social media blog that's primary focus is social media news but also covers news and developments in mobile, entertainment, online videos, business, web development, technology, memes and gadgets
• Technorati is a real-time search engine dedicated to the blogosphere, and it searches through blogs to find exactly what you are looking for
• LJ Seek is a search engine dedicated to sifting through LiveJournal blogging community 
• Ice Rocket Blog Search is a blog search that allows the opinion to search by link 
• Thoughts is a forum where you can meet like-minded people in where you can share your thoughts and join different communities 

Business & Technology Blogs 

• Business Insider is a US business and technology website that provides and analyzes business news, and acts as an aggregator of top news stories from around the web
• The Huffington Post is an online news aggregator and blog 
• Life Hacker is a weblog about life hacks and software and covers topics including Microsoft, Mac, iOS, and Android, as well as general life tips and tricks
• TechCrunch is a news website that focuses on information technology companies