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Defining Communities?

Written December 28th, 2007 by Paul in Tech

So while the rest of the web2.0 crowd is trying to define communities, I looked up communities on Wikipedia:

A community is a social group of organisms sharing an environment, normally with shared interests. In human communities, intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs, risks and a number of other conditions may be present and common, affecting the identity of the participants and their degree of cohesiveness.

That sounds about right to me.

I guess the others would like to have first crack at re-defining what a community is, so they can better define themselves and where they fit in.

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