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On the Web
- Virtual Jerusalem - Join an online Jewish community with news and information on Judaism and Israel at Virtual Jerusalem, your new home on the web.
- Virtual Jewish Chicago - The community online, includes a guide to the numerous Jewish organizations and services, a community calendar, and Jewish postcards.
- Community in the Workplace - Describes an anthology of essays about community building in the workplace, written by a virtual community of community-builders.
- Virtual Community Association (VCA - Central forum for individuals interested in community issues. Listings of Ottawa community associations, current issues news, and other community links.
- The Virtual Communities (VirCom) Project - Five PhD students out to study virtual communities, their rise and development, evolution, meaning and its effect to traditional organizations. (Some papers are in Swedish.)
- Unsworth, John. "Living Inside the (Operating) System: Community in Virtual Reality" - Essay discussing communities in MOOs, using PMC-MOO as a case study and discussing scholarly and pedagogical trajectories of MOOs. 1996.
- Hasidic News - Explores the Hasidic culture and community and reports the major new developments in communal and religious affairs of the major Hasidic sects Satmar, Bobov, Viznitz, Belz and Toldos Aharon.
- Monsey Homepage - Dedicated solely to the activities and interests of the Monsey's Jewish community. Includes kosher recipes, Mazel Tovs, and torah. Special for the Yiddish, Heimish, and Hebrew community. Also for Spring Valley and Suffern.
- Mystonehouse Virtual Community - A virtual online community for the town and surrounding area. Includes photo gallery, event calendar, discussion forum and history.
- GroupStudy: Virtual Community - Virtual community for Cisco certification students.
Wikipedia Articles
- Protecting the Virtual Commons - In 2003, Ruben van Wendel de Joode, Hans de Bruijn, and Michel van Eeten published a paper entitled Protecting the Virtual Commons: Self-organizing Open Source Communities and Innovative Intellectual Property Regimes. The introduction of the paper begins by establishing that the open source and free software virtual communities of the internet are unique virtual communities; unlike others, they have been popular for a long time and have had significant economic impact.
- Professional virtual community - A Professional virtual community (PVC) represents the combination of the concepts of virtual community and professional community. Virtual communities are defined as social systems of networks of individuals, who use computer technologies to mediate their relationships.
- The Virtual Community - The Virtual Community is a 1993 book about virtual communities by Howard Rheingold, a member of the early network system The Well.
- Contact consortium - The Contact Consortium is a California 501c(3) non-profit corporation founded in 1995 by software architect Bruce Damer, anthropologist Jim Funaro, and science fiction writer Keith Ferrel to serve as a catalyst and forum for the emerging medium of multi-user virtual worlds and virtual communities in cyberspace.Contact Consortium website - "about us" The Contact Consortium, sometimes know as "CCon" grew out of CONTACT: Cultures of the Imagination, an organization dedicated to "Anthropology for the future" which holds the annual CONTACT conference.
- Web community - A web community is similar to a virtual community, the major difference being that these are invitation-only communities designed to facilitate customer-derived innovations for a company’s products or services. Web communities have resulted from the emergence of Web 2.