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Business 54 - Introduction to eCommerce

Spring 2008

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Class Game Plan

Internet Communities.

Question and Answer.

Lab Time.

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Introduction to Communities

Collection of like-minded people who share attributes or hobbies-interests.

Think your local church group or alumni organizations or AOL.

Size / number of active community members is THE critical success factor.

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Introduction to Communities Types of Communities:

Social / Dating.• Match.Com• AOL.

Social / Other than Dating.• Yahoo• My Space

Educational.• UoP / GGU

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Introduction to Communities Types of Communities:

Medical.• WEBMD.• Disease sites

Business.• LinkedIn.

Entertainment.• Pandora.com• InDply.com

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Introduction to Communities

Types of Communities: Other Informational.

• Wikipedia.• Blogs.

Special / Short-lived

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Introduction to Communities

All Very Nice and Fun….

but how do you make money?

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Questions……

(and maybe some) Answers

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Lab Time

Visit http://krmlradio.com.

Check out the site, looking for its community aspects (or not).

Think about: What does it take to build an online Jazz Community?