Online communities can be vital for companies for marketing and outreach.
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24 Facts About Online communities
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Unexpected and innovative uses of web Online communities have emerged with social networks being used in conflicts to alert citizens of impending attacks, the UN sees the web and specifically social networks as an important tool in conflicts and emergencies.
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Web Online communities have grown in popularity with 6 of the current top 20 websites by traffic being community based sites.
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Many online communities relating to health care help inform, advise and support patients and their families.
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Online communities have grown in influence in "shaping the phenomena around which they organize" according to Nancy K Baym's work.
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Online communities currently owns four of the biggest platforms for online communities: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger.
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Online communities are dynamic by nature and there are researchers and organizations working to classify them.
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Online communities have changed the game for retail firms, forcing them to change their business strategies.
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Amy Jo Kim's membership lifecycle states that members of online communities begin their life in a community as visitors, or lurkers.
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Similar model can be found in the works of Lave and Wenger, who illustrate a cycle of how users become incorporated into virtual Online communities using the principles of legitimate peripheral participation.
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Users' underlying motivations to involve themselves in these Online communities have been linked to some persuasion theories of sociology.
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One of the greatest attractions towards online communities is the sense of connection users build among members.
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The main features in online communities that attract people are a shared communication environment, relationships formed and nurtured, a sense of belonging to a group, the internal structure of the group, common space shared by people with similar ideas and interests.
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Online communities gather people around common interests and these common interests can include brands, products, and services.
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Online communities have cultures of their own, and to be able to establish a commercial relationship or even engage at all, one must understand the community values and proprieties.
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Online communities learning can bring together a diverse group of people, and although it is asynchronous learning, if the forum is set up using all the best tools and strategies, it can be very effective.
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One feature of online communities is that they are not constrained by time thereby giving members the ability to move through periods of high to low activity over a period of time.
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The article "How to Build Effective Online Learning Communities" provides background information about online communities as well as how to incorporate learning within an online community.
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Online health communities is one example of online communities which is heavily used by internet users.
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Identity formation in the real world consisted of "one body, one identity", but the online communities allow you to create "as many electronic personae" as you please.
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Online communities do present potential risks, and users must remember to be careful and remember that just because an online community feels safe does not mean it necessarily is.
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Online communities harassment tends to affect adolescents the most due to their risk-taking behavior and decision-making processes.
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Unregulated communities are established when online users communicate on a site although there are no mutual terms of usage.
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Web Online communities can be an easy and useful tool to access information.
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