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Amy Jo Kim is an American author and researcher on the subject of online communities. She is noted for her influential conceptual frameworks into online communities, in particular the Membership Lifecycle that was presented in her 2000 book, Community Building on the Web, a design handbook for networked communities, considered to be a "cult classic" and is available in 7 languages, becoming required reading in game design studios and university classes worldwide.

Contents 1 Education 2 Professional Life 3 Personal life 4 Key texts 5 External links

[edit] Education

Kim holds a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience from the University of Washington, and a BS in Experimental Psych from UC San Diego.

[edit] Professional Life

Kim has been a designer of social games and gaming environments for clients like Digital Chocolate, Electronic Arts, eBay, Limelife, and Yahoo!.

Kim was formerly the VP Social Architecture for There Inc, a virtual worlds platform and services company. She was also Producer/Designer for Paramount's Advanced Product Design lab, where she developed online service prototypes for MTV, Nickelodeon, and Paramount Studios. Prior to that she was developed multimedia database interfaces for Sun Microsystems and NASA Ames Research Center and designed signal-processing software for neurophysiology experiments. She is founder and CEO of Shuffle Brain, a company developing smart games for social networks.

[edit] Personal life

Amy Jo Kim is married to Scott Kim. In her spare time, she teaches Game Design at the USC Film School, and enjoys playing games with her husband and son.

[edit] Key texts

• Amy Jo Kim, Community Building on the Web : Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities, 2000, Peachpit Press. ISBN 0-201-87484-9

[edit] External links

• Web page at Shuffle Brain