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History of Online Communities

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 History of Online Communities2004-08-19 01:20
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by Flemming Funch

Via several places, like Canuckflack, this chart:


which is from a report Online Communities in Business: Past Progress, Future Directions. Which is based on a survey about, obviously, the use of online communities in business. And which has findings like this:
* Participation in online communities, networks, and teams is growing (82%)
* Technologies for online groups are continuing to improve (79%)
* Retention of participants is not a significant problem (63%)

Despite these positive signs, some familiar problems persist:

* Most organizations can’t measure return on investment (72%)
* Many people still don’t understand what online community is (72%)
* The discipline of creating and managing communities is poorly defined (59%)
Sounds about right, even if not earth shattering. And the chart is interesting, showing the evolution of what we consider an online community. A virtual community is an idea that was most cool a few years ago, but which has merely morphed into somewhat different forms. Btw, I wouldn't place it in 92-93, but more like 95-96, and Amazon's and ebay's time are a little later too, I'd say, even if they maybe existed before.


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20 Aug 2004 @ 14:10 by QMAL @24.98.1.76 : Blogites
This is a most informative graphic. I like the blog as a think tank. I have learned more looking at these blogs I think, than my entire previous experience with internet. I didn't even know what a blog was two weeks ago, so I feel in the dark even still. My oldest daughter recently moved into my green bubble here , and I found out she has a blog and also helps others make them. Wow I am in the dark. I remember participating in the metaphysics club on a network called Quantum Link sometime in the 80's, This format has evolved so much further than that. I feel like a wild dog that just arrived in society, I mean I realy have no idea how to conduct my self here, this is first blog I found , but I like the NCN , I' ve been raised in that kind of thinking, ideals. There is somthing acausal synchronistic about it. So I found blogs and the cool blogites in just one search,the first search,,so .you all are...Rockin Reality  


21 Aug 2004 @ 01:30 by ming : blogs
Sounds like a perfectly great place to start, of course. :-) Yeah, blogs are a different kind of medium. Different things happening, most of them good.  


21 Aug 2004 @ 20:38 by ming : History
Ah, yes, that explains it. Yeah, Yahoo groups changed a lot of things too. But it is all sort of inter-connected and continuous, of course, so hard to place anything with certainty. Anyway, great chart.  


28 Aug 2004 @ 09:32 by Gregory Wright @66.81.179.208 : Famous First Lines: who knows the rest?
"What hath God wrought?"
"Watson, come here, I want you!"
"Mary had a little lamb, her fleece was white as snow."
" MARCONI'S FIRST [TRANSATLANTIC] RADIO COMMUNICATION "
"That's one small step for the man, one giant leap for mankind!"
" FIRST E-MAIL SENT "

-- who can fill in the missing first lines?!  



3 Sep 2004 @ 13:13 by ming : First lines
Well, the Watson one was Edison. Of course the small step is Neil Armstrong. The first e-mail sent did, I think, just consist of two letters. It was meant to be more, but something crashed along the way.  


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