online communities

Online Communities are found around in various formats. Popular blogs with regular readers (who also comment on posts regularly), forums and more obviously social networking sites often fall under the 'online community' definition, as can some MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games).

The definitive factor is a place where people communicate with each other online. Whether an e-mail list can be called an online community is questionable, whilst many online communities have certainly grown around what started out as a simple e-mail list.

You'll find a number of articles about online communities here. Another one of my favorite blogs covering the topic is Mashable.com, which, as well as talking about online communities, has its own social networking community element on the site.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “online communities”

• in Business
  Salesforce Releases Communities
  Last month Salesforce released Social.com in an attempt to unify its social marketing and CRM facilities. They have continued to improve their social business offerings by announcing Salesforce Communities.
  by cmimanagers / on May 4, 2013
• in Social Media
  Is HealthUnlocked Heralding the Rise of Social Healthcare?
  Matt Jameson Evans, founder of HealthUnlocked, talks about the role of social media in healthcare.
  by cmimanagers / on Apr 29, 2013
• in Entertainment
  Top Facebook Pages for Book Lovers
  Turn to Facebook for some of the best ongoing book discussions on the web.
  by litwitch / on Jul 19, 2011

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