Setting up a Community of Online Communities: A case study
Zeljko Klindzic, Jasmin Klindžić, Zarko Vuckovic · 2001
This paper illustrates practical experience gained from development of an community and connection of several communities into one. Since 1996 a group of authors from Slavonski Brod has been developing the resource network called SBOnLine. The results of our work are visible through web portals of Brodsko -posavska county and a network of complementary resources, from the radio station, newspapers, schools, to city and county official web sites. Second objective was communication of people originating from this area through Internet (located in Croatia or around the world). At the beginning, the communication with people originating from Brod consisted of directory services, web publication and news/information broadcasting. Later, other services emerged: mailing lists, boards, chat and similar. Through the development of multi -user tools for content publishing, the community became interactive. Today, there is an increasing number of authors and associates from all around the world participating in the content production. Through connection with similar projects from Slavonia - Pozega online and Osijek online during 2001, a community of communities called Putokazi ravnice was born. Modules of the community are using integrated resources, thus enabling the remote cooperation of the individuals and teams from all communities.