Organizational/Operational Form: Non-profit Innovation Network

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A non-profit innovation network is a new organizational form which is built around constant learning. It is an online community.

Virtual Communities are networks of people using information technology to create a web of relationships. They are created for professional, social, friendship or several other purposes.

Virtual communities engage people in various ways, supported by technology, to achieve different goals such as discussions, relationship chains, private spaces and group messaging.

A Virtual Community is a somewhat continued network of people or enterprises.

An online community is a virtual community that exists online and whose members enable its existence through taking part in membership convention. An online community can take the form of an information system where anyone can post content, such as a Bulletin board system or one where only a restricted number of people can initiate posts, such as Weblogs. Online communities have also become a supplemental form of communication between people who know each other primarily in real life. Many means are used in social software separately or in combination, including text-based chat rooms and forums that use voice, video, text or avatars. Significant socio-technical change may have resulted from the proliferation of such Internet-based social networks.