I just planted a fruit orchard in my backyard this month and decided that keeping bees would be necessary to ensure good pollination. I haven't found any sizable online communities for beekeepers, so I do what I do well and put together a website. Shameless plug BackyardApiary.com.
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You have missed two huge beekeeping forums, Beemaster.com and Beesource.com. All of the authors you read in either Bee Culture or American Bee Journal post in Beesource. The friendliest forum is Beemaster, but they're both great sources of beekeeping information.