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	SAP Design Guild -- Characterizing the Virtual Community
		Virtual communities can be classified on the basis of the Internet service in which they are established, the subjects and tasks they deal with, or the role they play in the lives of their members, for example."
		SeniorNet is a good example of a virtual community with close social ties that extend into real life; this community also has certain special features (partly as a result of its relatively long history): Within the virtual environment, the members have already "moved" several times with their community.
		Professionally-oriented virtual communities can be found in the areas of education and training if learning is shifted to the virtual environment and member authentication is required to enter the community.
	www.sapdesignguild.org /editions/edition5/communities.asp (2663 words)

	Building a Virtual Museum Community
		Much of the material housed in a virtual museum may be generated and produced by students who conduct research on the topic within their own community and the global community, engaging in an electronic treasure hunt to find great information and electronic artifacts.
		Virtual museums offer an opportunity for communities to preserve and display much of this material, while providing an opportunity for students to work on local history projects that involve collection and archiving.
		The challenge of communicating accurately and sensitively about historical events is immense for the adult museum professionals such as those who created the controversial Hiroshima exhibit for the Smithsonian and those who have encountered serious anger from Native American groups which have protested the display of tribal treasures.
	www.fno.org /museum/museweb.html (2841 words)

	Virtual Communities
		In particular, this paper discusses selected aspects of combining communities of practice and virtual worlds by example of a virtual community that is situated in the global conferencing-system Usenet news.
		Communities in Cyberspace is devoted to exploring new forms of social organization and the changing concepts of community as social groups develop within computer networks.
		Virtual Workplace is a webservice, that empowers teams to immediately create and manage their own secure, shared workspaces on the Web.Virtual Workplace is also the first webservice of this kind, to integrate secure Internet credit card payment.
	www.insead.fr /CALT/Encyclopedia/ComputerSciences/Groupware/VirtualCommunities (9437 words)

	(Virtual) Community Informatics
		Community Informatics is the design and application of information and communications technologies to enable community processes and the achievement of community objectives, such as overcoming "digital divides", "wiring (and ensuring connectivity for) the farthest reaches of a far-flung nation", creating on-line "communities of interest" and "communities of practice", and others.
		Virtual communities serve a diversity of groups, including people with common interests; groups fostered by particular organizations, industries or marketplaces; those who face similar life circumstances (such as a medical problem); as well as those who simply wish to socialize, play games or participate in fantasy experiences together on-line.
		Communities of Practice are groups which form among peers for sharing knowledge and information about the tasks they perform or other aspects of their professional activities and interests.
	is.njit.edu /vci-www2003 (1127 words)

	Virtual Community: Seeking the Real Influence
		A virtual community of more than 200 citizens, mainly from Slovakia, who are active in their will to express democratic attitudes, has been formed on the Internet.
		This paper analyzes this virtual community (which uses the Internet as its native communication platform), its activities (which have been presented in the form of initiatives or protests), and the responses and reactions of important representatives in Slovak political, social, and cultural life.
		Although the communication is anonymous to a large extent, it is intriguing that a common platform is found during discussions and views are confronted objectively.
	www.isoc.org /isoc/whatis/conferences/inet/97/proceedings/G4/G4_3.HTM (3668 words)

	Virtual Community Informatics
		Researchers, students and practitioners interested in the areas of community informatics and virtual communities are welcome to submit either a position statement or a full paper for presentation.
		Community Informatics is the application of information and communications technologies to enable community processes and the achievement of community objectives, such as overcoming "digital divides", and supporting community based IT/ICT-enabled initiatives in community economic development, health, environmental and sustainable development, community focused learning and civic engagement and social justice.
		Virtual communities are concerned with creating and sustaining on-line "communities of interest" and "communities of practice", and others.
	web.njit.edu /~bieber/vci-workshop-2002.html (920 words)

	howard rheingold's \| the virtual community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Virtual communities are social aggregations that emerge from the Net when enough people carry on those public discussions long enough, with sufficient human feeling, to form webs of personal relationships in cyberspace.
		The small virtual communities still exist, like yeast in a rapidly rising loaf, but increasingly they are part of an overarching culture, similar to the way the United States became an overarching culture after the telegraph and telephone linked the states.
		Watching a particular virtual community change over a period of time has something of the intellectual thrill of do-it-yourself anthropology, and some of the garden-variety voyeurism of eavesdropping on an endless amateur soap opera where there is no boundary separating the audience from the cast.
	www.rheingold.com /vc/book/intro.html (6550 words)

	A Virtual Community Development Model - The Bumble Bee
		Opportunities for growth of a virtual community will appear, sometimes out of the blue, and we should be ready to exploit them when they come.
		This is the next growth level I have seen in a virtual community and I believe it is important to try and encourage a community to get to this level.
		Whilst it is great to be part of such a community we need to recognise that this stage is not for all communities and if and when it arises it is generally a transient phenomenon.
	www.bioteams.com /2005/10/04/a_virtual_community.html (1147 words)

	What is a Virtual Community? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Virtual community is a term commonly used to described various forms of computer-mediated communication, particularly long-term, textually mediated conversations among large groups.
		The improved communication of virtual interaction allows people to seek out more easily those who espouse similar beliefs than can be done in a physical world.
		The virtual communties are formed around interests ranging from hobbies to self-help issues, to scholarly and professional discourse.
	classweb.gmu.edu /nclc350/sp03/def-virt-comm.html (311 words)

	virtual community - a definition from Whatis.com
		A virtual community is a community of people sharing common interests, ideas, and feelings over the Internet or other collaborative networks.
		Virtual communities might be thought of as subgroups within Marshall McLuhan's notion of cyberspace as a "global village." Before the Web, virtual communities existed on bulletin board services (BBS) and many still do.
		Some virtual communities or facilitators of them use the metaphor of a coffee house or something similar to help users visualize the community.
	whatis.techtarget.com /definition/0,,sid9_gci213295,00.html (192 words)

	Virtual Communities: What and Why?
		Online or virtual community is the gathering of people, in an online "space" where they come, communicate, connect, and get to know each other better over time.
		Community groups such as soccer teams, school groups and others have used online community to provide forums for information and discussion, helping bring groups together.
		But there are many online communities where you (a member of the community) actually can't find out who someone's is in "real life." People are role playing, and playing out a fantasy role.
	www.fullcirc.com /community/communitywhatwhy.htm (1643 words)

	Virtual community - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Web 2.0 is essentially characterized by virtual communities such as Flickr, Facebook, and Del.icio.us.
		Virtual communities and domestic violence crimes committed by their users - A detailed discussion about popular virtual communities be held legally responsible for online domestic violence crimes committed by their users.
		Rheingold, H. The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Virtual_community (2427 words)

	Virtual Community Informatics
		In general we are concerned with what researchers and practitioners in Virtual and Local communities can learn from the other regarding community technology.
		Michel Menou is a Visiting Professor at the University of the City of London and a well known researcher and consultant in the development and use of ICTs for Community applications in Less Developed Countries.
		If you are interested in Community Informatics, and would like to be notified of future events and on-going research, please send an email message to Michael Bieber (bieber@oak.njit.edu) and Mike Gurstein (gurstein@njit.edu).
	www.is.njit.edu /ci-workshop-ct2003 (1348 words)

	electric minds \| virtual community center \| fundamentals
		" Inhabiting the Virtual City" examines how virtual societies can use technology to indicate social subtleties and how people in virtual space can get a sense of the ebb and flow of their activity, as both of these elements of human interaction are integral to successful socialization when we're not on line.
		The conclusion of "Virtual Communities: Abort, Retry, Failure?" is that though it has advantages, virtual community cannot adequately replace community of the physical realm.
		Cited in Howard Rheingold's "The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Virtual Frontier", Marc Smith's "Voices from the Well"; looks at the Well to ascertain how communities generate and maintain the commitment of regular participants.
	www.abbedon.com /electricminds/html/vcc_fund_2552.html (955 words)

	Virtual Connections: Community Bonding on the Net
		Howard Rheingold, in The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (1993), [2] and Sherry Turkle, in Life On the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (1995), [3] addressed computer-mediated communication on the pre-Web Internet, focusing on newsgroups and chat rooms.
		In speaking of the impact of telecommunications and the Internet, in particular on bonding communities, Putnam states that the Internet's "net effect will be to enhance community, perhaps even dramatically" [8].
		Putnam wrote that when comparing face-to-face and computer-mediated communication, the richer the medium of communication, the more sociable, personal, trusting, and friendly the encounter [11].
	firstmonday.org /issues/issue6_3/glogoff/index.html (2650 words)

	Virtual Community
		A visionary commercial entity will join these growing virtual communities, humbly recognising the fact that it is only a part of the community.
		When a matured virtual community is developed with loyal members, there will be less chance these members will visit the individual homepage of commercial organisations, even if they have their customer service corner.
		When there is an active participation of a virtual community, with synergy created among different virtual communities, collective intelligence is unleashed - towards a true Global Community or otherwise, depends very much on each and every one of us, on how we want to contribute and shape the eventual outcome.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/5621/vircom.html (853 words)

	Virtual Community of Practice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		To some a virtual Community of Practice is a misnomer as the original concept of a Community of Practice (CoP) was based around situated learning in a co-located setting.
		As the mode of communication can involve face-to-face, telephone and letter, and the defining feature is its distributed nature.
		Virtual Communities of Practice: Differentiated Consequences for Individuals in Two Organisational Contexts
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Virtual_Community_of_Practice (293 words)

	virtual community research resources
		The associated email discussion list, IPCT-L, is not very active at this time, but, it is one of the largest lists, with 714 subscribers (as of 04/99) making it a good place to read and post announcements relating to research into any aspect of cyberpsychology.
		Dave Coon did a study, the full text of which is available, which "determined empirically that for the majority of users of a certain Internet Chat Room the Internet fits a sociological definition of community." This site has an excellent, long list of links to other virtual community research resources.
		A very active virtual community devoted to an examination of online group dynamics.
	webpages.charter.net /stormking/research.html (865 words)

	About The Mississippi Virtual Community College
		Contact Us The Mississippi Virtual Community College (MSVCC) is a consortium of 14 of Mississippi's community colleges that makes it possible for MSVCC colleges to leverage their distance learning resources -- including faculty, courses, support services, and technology.
		Through MSVCC, students may take courses from community colleges anywhere in Mississippi while getting support services from a local college.
		community and junior college districts in Mississippi and to others beyond those boundaries.
	www.msvcc.org /msvcc/AboutUs.htm (336 words)

	VMTN - Virtual Appliances (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		A virtual appliance is a fully pre-installed and pre-configured application and operating system environment that runs on any standard x86 desktop or server in a self-contained, isolated environment known as a virtual machine.
		Virtual appliances provide an evolutionary step in the software distribution model.
		Read on for resources describing the ins and outs of virtual appliances, as well as freely downloadable virtual appliances created by VMware partners, VMTN community members, and contestants in the Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge.
	www.vmware.com /vmtn/appliances (170 words)

	Electronic Community
		Electric Communities is developing secure, scalable Internet-based social systems and virtual communities.
		It is a place to come meet colleagues in Biology studies and related fields and brainstorm, to hold colloquia and conferences, to explore the serious side of this new medium.
		This is revolutionary because, for the first time, the users of a system are building their own community and interacting directly with the designers of the system.
	www.virtualschool.edu /mon/ElectronicCommunity/index.html (628 words)

	Virtual Community - Women
		Instead of the "letter to the church at Ephesus," he might have written "the multiple e-mails to the church at Ephesus." And rather than wait to address a problem when he was able to visit, Paul could have sent an instant message.
		Church services are, by design, not terribly effective at promoting fellowship or community in the relational sense.
		Because online communication is fraught with potential for deceit or withholding, we need to be deeply aware it provides only a partial relationship.
	www.christianitytoday.com /tcw/2006/004/2.32.html (750 words)

	The Wellness Community - free online support services for people with cancer
		The Wellness Community's traditional services offered in a home-like setting in our 22 facilities worldwide are now accessible online.
		The Virtual Wellness Community is designed to enhance access to our free cancer support services through the use of technology and to minimize common barriers to care such as geography.
		The Virtual Wellness Community was launched on Good Morning America in the spring of 2002 as a result of The Wellness Community's groundbreaking pilot study with Stanford University and the University of California at San Francisco.
	www.thewellnesscommunity.org /virtual_WC/tvwc_main.htm (369 words)

	Animal Freedom is a virtual community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The site is a portal for like-minded people and a virtual community aimed at empowering and supporting others to help animals.
		The community itself rarely initiates actions, but informs each other about effective and legal ways to stop factory farming and to make a basis for animal rights in the constitution.
		The community uses Internet as a virtual space to meet and support other people.
	www.animalfreedom.org /english/background/community.html (334 words)

	EFF "Net Culture - Virtual Community" Archive
		A paper on the evolution of community networking, presented at the Free Speech and Privacy in the Information Age symposium - Waterloo, Canada, 1994.
		An article on the metaphors of the information infrastructure, and the communities using that "information superhighway."
		A description of the manner in which the PLATO system of the '60s created a computer-based community.
	www.eff.org /Net_culture/Virtual_community (234 words)

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