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Product Description: Today, "community" seems to be everywhere. At home, at work, and online, the vague but comforting idea of the community pervades every area of life. But have we lost the ability truly to understand what it means? The Neighborhood in the Internet investigates social and civic effects of community networks on local community, and how community network designs are appropriated and extended by community members...read more
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9780415783088 | Routledge, March 19, 2012, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Today, "community" seems to be everywhere.
Product Description: Social networks are a nearly universal element of modern, information-driven societies, one that presents many opportunities and advantages-and challenges and hazards-for organizations as well as individuals.Studies in Virtual Communities, Blogs, and Modern Social Networking: Measurements, Analysis, and Investigations provides a cross-cultural perspective of social networking, including ethical considerations and business implications...read more
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9781466640221 | Idea Group Reference, May 31, 2013, cover price $175.00 | About this edition: Social networks are a nearly universal element of modern, information-driven societies, one that presents many opportunities and advantages-and challenges and hazards-for organizations as well as individuals.
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9781466615533 | Idea Group Reference, May 31, 2012, cover price $175.00
Product Description: With the power to gather people with similar interests together, virtual communities have gained attention by not only practitioners, but researchers, as well. Virtual Community Participation and Motivation: Cross-Disciplinary Theories offers in-depth coverage of state-of-the-art research on virtual community participation...read more
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9781466603127, titled "Virtual Community Participation and Motivation:: Cross-Disciplinary Theories" | Idea Group Reference, March 31, 2012, cover price $175.00 | About this edition: With the power to gather people with similar interests together, virtual communities have gained attention by not only practitioners, but researchers, as well.
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9781449312060 | 2 edition (Oreilly & Associates Inc, May 30, 2012), cover price $39.99
9780596156718 | 1 edition (Oreilly & Associates Inc, August 1, 2009), cover price $39.99
Product Description: Emergent technologies, including ambient intelligence and pervasive computing, promise a considerable advance in the way people use virtual communities, and new, innovative applications are making virtual communities more dynamic and usable than ever...read more
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9781609608699 | Idea Group Reference, August 30, 2011, cover price $195.00 | About this edition: Emergent technologies, including ambient intelligence and pervasive computing, promise a considerable advance in the way people use virtual communities, and new, innovative applications are making virtual communities more dynamic and usable than ever.
Product Description: In The Rational Guide to Building Technical User Communities, Microsoft Regional Director Greg Low explains how the most successful user communities succeed by focusing on people rather than technology. He explains the differences between user groups and user communities, how to ensure productive meetings, the importance of using speakers effectively, and tried and true methods of recruiting and growing a group...read more
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9781932577327 | Rational Pr, August 14, 2007, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: In The Rational Guide to Building Technical User Communities, Microsoft Regional Director Greg Low explains how the most successful user communities succeed by focusing on people rather than technology.
Product Description: Praise for Smart Start-Ups "Silver's new book is a masterpiece of clarity concerning the next great entrepreneurial wave, and my only problem with it was the charley horse in my elbow I got turning the pages." -Robin Richards, founding President, MP3...read more
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9780470107423 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, May 18, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Praise for Smart Start-Ups "Silver's new book is a masterpiece of clarity concerning the next great entrepreneurial wave, and my only problem with it was the charley horse in my elbow I got turning the pages.
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9780470140369 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, July 27, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Praise for Smart Start-Ups "Silver's new book is a masterpiece of clarity concerning the next great entrepreneurial wave, and my only problem with it was the charley horse in my elbow I got turning the pages.
Knowledge Factors: How to Animate Members of Online Communities to Create Knowledge-relevant Content
Product Description: Knowledge is becoming more and more important as an individual good, and as a social and economic resource. The research project outlined in this publication focuses on the question how knowledge processes can be optimally stimulated in the cooperative context of forum-based Online Knowledge Communities (OKCs)...read more
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9780820499406 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, May 23, 2006, cover price $47.95 | About this edition: Knowledge is becoming more and more important as an individual good, and as a social and economic resource.
9780820499406 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, May 23, 2006, cover price $47.95 | About this edition: Knowledge is becoming more and more important as an individual good, and as a social and economic resource.
9783631554661 | 1 edition (Peter Lang Pub Inc, May 23, 2006), cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Knowledge is becoming more and more important as an individual good, and as a social and economic resource.
Product Description: This book is about the spiritual impact of our increasing ability to communicate quickly and with enhanced evolution. It's about our search for meaning, our hunger for a glimpse at humanity's future development in which-frighteningly or excitingly-the trend is clearly toward increasing integration of telecommunications and information technology with the body itself...read more
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9781578633494 | Samuel Weiser, November 1, 2005, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: This book is about the spiritual impact of our increasing ability to communicate quickly and with enhanced evolution.
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9780470022481 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, April 8, 2005, cover price $150.00
Miscellaneous:
9780470022498 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, August 15, 2005, cover price $120.00
Miscellaneous:
9780470022511 | Onl edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, November 30, 2005), cover price $120.00
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9781403912459 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 2, 2005, cover price $130.00
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9780742529595 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, July 1, 2004, cover price $49.00
Product Description: Is the Internet the key to a reinvigorated public life? Or will it fragment society by enabling citizens to associate only with like-minded others? Online community has provided social researchers with insights into our evolving social life...read more
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9780742529588 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, July 1, 2004, cover price $106.00 | About this edition: Is the Internet the key to a reinvigorated public life?
Product Description: This study examines how learning and cognitive change are fostered by online communities. The chapters provide a basis for thinking about the dynamics of Internet community building. They consider the role of the self or individual as a participant in virtual community, and the design and refinement of technology as the conduit for extending and enhancing the possibilities of community building in cyberspace...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521780759 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 8, 2002, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: This study examines how learning and cognitive change are fostered by online communities.
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9780521785587 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $44.99 | About this edition: This study examines how learning and cognitive change are fostered by online communities.
Product Description: IOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields. Some of the areas we publish in: -Biomedicine -Oncology -Artificial intelligence -Databases and information systems -Maritime engineering -Nanotechnology -Geoengineering -All aspects of physics -E-governance -E-commerce -The knowledge economy -Urban studies -Arms control -Understanding and responding to terrorism -Medical informatics -Computer Science...read more
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9781586031626 | Ios Pr Inc, November 1, 2001, cover price $116.00 | About this edition: IOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields.
Presents the dramatic story of the pioneering virtual community that changed the way the world communicates, conceived in 1984, and implemented during the end of the 1980s, and available to 'Well-beings' who participated in on-line discussions on a myriad of topics.
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9780786708468 | Carroll & Graf Pub, May 1, 2001, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Presents the story of the pioneering virtual community that began operations in the late 1980s and which allowed 'Wellbeings' to participate in on-line discussions on a myriad of topics.
Product Description: Online communities: Understanding them, building them, making them work. *A comprehensive guide to online communities-how they develop and how they impact e-commerce, culture, politics, and education *Why some online communities thrive-and others fail *Contributors include Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation Whether you're an online community developer, marketer, political activist, or academic, you depend on online communities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780130323828 | Prentice Hall, December 1, 2000, cover price $49.00 | About this edition: Online communities: Understanding them, building them, making them work.
Product Description: On-line communities work for the same reasons traditional communities work-because of the relationships members form, the information they gather, and the entertainment they view. All provide immediate value and comfort. Poor Richard's Building Online Communities shows how anyone with Internet access can create an on-line community and describes the many advantages...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780966103298 | Top Floor Pub, July 1, 2000, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: On-line communities work for the same reasons traditional communities work-because of the relationships members form, the information they gather, and the entertainment they view.
Product Description: A discussion of all the developments of the community network in North America, the Blacksburg Electronic Village (BEV). It relates how the community got connected, and addresses the social, economic, technical and educational impact of working in a connected town, including key factors for success, new network technologies, fibre on Main Street efforts, and local government initiatives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781580530309 | 2 sub edition (Artech House, July 1, 2000), cover price $33.00 | About this edition: A discussion of all the developments of the community network in North America, the Blacksburg Electronic Village (BEV).
9780890068960 | Artech House, December 1, 1996, cover price $43.00 | About this edition: Presented in this work is the five-year evolution of the Blacksburg Electronic Village - the venture that linked the citizens of Blacksburg, Virginia, to each other and to the rest of the world, entirely through the Internet.
Product Description: Community informatics is an approach for linking economic and social development at the community level to opportunities that technologies present. This introduction to the discipline examines issues such as trends, controversies and challenges facing the community in the 21st century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781878289698 | Idea Group Pub, July 1, 2000, cover price $139.95 | About this edition: Community informatics is an approach for linking economic and social development at the community level to opportunities that technologies present.
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9781576101568 | Pap/cdr edition (Coriolis Group, August 1, 1997), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Explains what virtual communities are and how they began on the Internet, and provides tips on planning and building up a community
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