Seven Lessons for Enterprises From Large-Scale Web Collaboration

This article I wanted to present You, tells about large-scale collaboration in Web communities and how experience from its communities can be transferable to other fields, such as customer communities, prize-based crowdsourcing initiatives, or knowledge management and collaboration support.

"Successful Web communities are characterized by a mix of high participation, engagement and motivation, along with low coordination costs. They involve large numbers of motivated individuals working together to create value for themselves, for each other and the organizations that set up these communities".

The most valuable thing is to understand what brings individuals in communities together (e.g. solving problems, advices).

Look through this article and get to know more very valuable information about Web communities.

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