Documenting virtual communities
Scott Tilley, Dennis B. Smith · 1996
This paper describes the use of virtual communities in fostering collaborative tesearch partnerships.It discusses the explosive growth in global networking infrastructure and the use of the World Wide Web (WWW) as both a documentation tool and as an active vehicle for unifying collaborative efforts.A pilot pro~ct, the Vhtual Reengineering Community, is presented to illustrative the concept.