Why Communities Fail
Posted 17 Jul 2008 by John Eckman
Ben Worthen had an article the other day in the Wall Street Journal about the kinds of online...
You name it, there's a community for it somewhere online. No matter how niche you think your interests are, if there's one other person on the planet who shares that interest, odds are they've started an online community for it.
Increasingly people expect to intereact with and belong to online communities, not just visit web sites. The open, standards based nature of the Internet enables, of course, the global community of web users, but those users also belong to mire tightly defined communities of geography, of occupation, of interest.
"An online community is: Where a group of people with similar goals or interests connect and exchange information using web tools." - Jeremiah Owyang
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Content Management in the Age of User Participation - Presentation
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