The WSJ published an interesting article on Monday (September 29, 2008) about Preston Fosback, a 16-year old, who engaged people all over the world to monitor, via the Internet, the Obama-Biden sign outside his front yard to make sure it wasn’t stolen. The people who monitor the sign essentially form a virtual community or a virtual group who are unlikely to ever meet. They are monitoring without entering into any kind of transaction with Preston Fosback or with each other. Yet, they have come together to carry out an activity in a way that would make any firm’s team leaders proud.
In this post, I cover:
Virtual communities on the Internet,
Things we know about leading virtual communities, and
Things we don’t know about leading virtual communities.
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