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Definition and Examples of Virtual Communities

formation of a virtual community may occur in many environments and as a result of many different pull factors, from entertainmen...

Community Defined

I like to think of it as our collective identity - who we are and how we express that. Inwardly, our identity includes our values,...

Community Threat Posed by Virtual Communities

This paper discusses the threat posed by virtual communities in terms of lack of real social interaction and the building of share...

EVE Online/Authority in an Online Community

travel through a universe made up of over five thousand solar systems. The developers of the game look to the player community for...

Virtually Reality Genre; Star Trek's Next-Generation Episode Ship In A Bottle As A Forerunner Of Virtual Reality In The Matrix And The Thirteenth Floor

as a commercially viable and attractive genre by its continued existence and evolution. In all three of the production to ...

Virtual Multi-Cultural Teams

multi-cultural work teams can easily fail and when it is a virtual team, even more problems may emerge. Virtual multi-cultural ...

Memory Management and Functionality of Windows XP

the stickiest problems with Microsoft operating systems. Perhaps the most fascinating new XP feature is that read-only and...

Hospital Learning Community Development

Boyer explained the learning community as: 1. A purposeful community-a place where faculty and students share academic goals and w...

Overview of Data Warehousing

In five pages this research paper considers data warehousing in terms of the communications and technology history, definition of ...

VRML

which may be why VRML hasnt really caught on yet. However, those futuristic worlds of Hollywood are no longer "science fic...

Net Gain by Hagel and Armstrong

Concurrently, these same companies are interested in building long-term relationships with their customers, and it has become appa...

The Two Types of Sexual Harassment

what sexual harassment is. They may have witnessed something that seems unconscionable. A boss continually bothers his secretary a...

Virtual Team Best Practices

concern for [team members] individual needs and feelings" (Nemiro, 2004; p. 113), and by extension expecting individual team membe...

Community Policing and Terrorism

firing guns and shouting "God is great!" in Arabic, then turned over the ominous recording to a clerk at Circuit City in Mount Lau...

The Importance of Title IX in the Community College Setting

not considered the devastating effects of a Title IX lawsuit as they did not believe it would really affect their schools. In the ...

The Body Shop; A Company Successful at Creating Partnerships

been seen in mixed lights. There is little doubt that whatever approach is adopted there has been the creation of profit, this was...

Virtual Communications and Organizations

within an organization depends on what type of organization it is. In a traditional hierarchical structure; that is, one in which ...

Implementing New Technology; A Consideration Of Virtual Private Networks

be seen in a range of commercial and non commercial environment. One recent example has been the adoption of a VPN by the Honolulu...

The Virtual Organization

they are other firms, or employees, they are also not bound by physical locations. This may also facilitate increased levels of di...

Managing Virtual Teams

team involves far more than just learning how to use the technology that allows these teams to exist (Kimball, 1997). Managers mu...

Education and Virtual Reality

We now have another way to gain knowledge of the world, through virtual reality (Winn, 1993). Immersion in a virtual world allows ...

Aspects That Make Good Communities

find help through federal programs, although there are problems of access within these systems. If the federal or state government...

TLR Inc. and the Pros and Cons of Virtual Teams

being interviewed over the phone may not be the same person that gets hired. For example, some people do much better in a face-to-...

ARCO Alaska and Virtual Teams

management at ARCO Alaska, Inc. in Anchorage, says, "As industry becomes more global and [has] gone through years of downsizing, t...

VR

In eight pages this paper examines the technology associated with virtual reality in an overview of its many applications with exa...

Medical Futility And Ethics

2000). Here is an example: A young person is in an accident and has been in a persistent vegetative state for months. The family...

How Group Leader Demonstrated Skills

This essay discusses the actions, skills, and knowledge of a group leader. It was a virtual higher education team, thus, these ski...

The Influence of Sport in the Context of Creating, Maintaining and Challenging Ethnic Identities and Stereotypes

game, including the way the game may be associated with the national identity in terms of values in a manner not found in other sp...

Choosing a Healthcare Intervention

have a side effect. For example, if this is occurring in an area where there is fluoride being added, and the process will strip t...

Basic Skills Initiative

2007). These are considered the foundation skills for success in college level education (Illowsky, 2007). The BSI itself is inten...