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What is Community VO

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Handbook of Research on Socio-Technical Design and Social Networking Systems
A type of online social aggregation, including shared access to tools and/or website resources, enabling the support of communication, typically self-forming based around interests, information and/or knowledge, often with a loose informal structure, open-ended in nature, and externalized with a public interface.
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Virtual Collaboration and Community
Ann Borda (Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative (VeRSI), Australia) and Jonathan P. Bowen (London South Bank University and Museophile Limited, UK)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 11
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-264-0.ch003
Abstract
This chapter introduces the concept of a Virtual Organization (VO), using the Internet to link geographically separated participants in an efficient and novel manner. In particular, the chapter contrasts the attributes of Project VOs and Community VOs. The former tend to be more formal and arise for a particular collaborative goal with a limited lifetime. The latter are less formal and more open-ended, with a less specific purpose, largely aimed at developing an online community as an end in itself. The features of Project and Community VOs are compared and the various technologies are discussed. Two case studies are presented as examples. This is a rapidly changing area with new technologies becoming rapidly available, but the underlying concepts and reasons for the existence of VOs in the support of virtual collaborative practice remain more stable.
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