Online Communities and Networks: Demonstrable Differences?
Posted by: Paul Beaufait in CommunityGroup, LearningTimesIn Ongoing VCWG [Virtual Community Working Group] discussion, Carole McCulloch suggests a demonstrable difference between online communities and networks.
A community, on one hand, she suggests is “an online group where one’s absence will be noted (you will be missed).” In contrast, she suggests, a network is “an online group where one’s absence does not matter (the group will survive)” (Learning Times, Virtual Community Working Group, 2005.04.06).
Reading that led to wondering whether the WinK network is beginning to approximate a community. [Somehow, this quick post got clocked in on January 1, 1970. Since I don't recall when I posted it, I'm changing the timestamp to today (March 19, 2008).]
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