[Air-l] Re: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #240 - 2 msgs

[dca4 at georgetown.edu]

Sandeep:
I think it is better to speak of community is terms of social networks 
as opposed to organizational structures (see Barry Wellman's work).  An 
organization may contain many communities within it that exist for 
formal and informal reasons.  
Dorine Andrews
Georgetown University

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From: air-l-request at aoir.org
Date: Friday, December 14, 2001 12:01 pm
Subject: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #240 - 2 msgs

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> Today's Topics:
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>   1. Company vs. Community (Sandeep Krishnamurthy)
>   2. RE: Statistics on Email Messages Sent in US and 
> Internationally in 2000 (Cem Timurkan)
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> Message: 1
> From: "Sandeep Krishnamurthy" <sandeep at u.washington.edu>
> To: <air-l at aoir.org>
> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 09:17:59 -0800
> Subject: [Air-l] Company vs. Community
> Reply-To: air-l at aoir.org
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> Colleagues,
> 
> I teach an MBA E-Commerce class.  In the customary class on online
> communities, we started off with a simple question- "What is the 
> differencebetween a (for-profit)company and a community?"
> 
> This seemingly simple question tied us up into knots as we tried 
> to identify
> attributes that distinguished the two.  The ones we did come up with
> included contractual vs. voluntary membership, rigid vs. loose
> organizational structure, paid vs. unpaid participants etc.  I 
> think you see
> where I am going.
> 
> At the end of the discussion, one student(who has a Ph.D in 
> biology) said-
> "Isn't community an all-encompassing construct? Can it not be 
> argued that a
> company is really a type of community?"  While I respected his 
> comments, it
> really underscored the need to understand this better.
> 
> I know community is a construct that is backed by decades of 
> research.  I
> have seen some of the seminal works- but perhaps, not all.
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> How would you answer the basic question I started out with?
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> Best,
> Sandeep
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> Message: 2
> From: "Cem Timurkan" <timurkan at olisys.com>
> To: <air-l at aoir.org>
> Subject: RE: [Air-l] Statistics on Email Messages Sent in US and 
> Internationally in 2000
> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:08:32 -0500
> Reply-To: air-l at aoir.org
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> I think I might answer to this question. First of, log on to
> www.emarketer.com. Scroll down, and type 'e-mail messages sent' in the
> search box. After that, you'll receive 9 documents at the 
> resulting page. I
> think the first two might help. However, those two would likely 
> focus on the
> U.S. Have a nice day.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Cem Timurkan
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> From: air-l-admin at aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin at aoir.org]On Behalf Of
> nbaron at american.edu
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 7:26 PM
> To: air-l at aoir.org
> Subject: [Air-l] Statistics on Email Messages Sent in US and
> Internationally in 2000
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> Would anyone have handy statistics (and credible references) on the
> approximate number of email messages sent in the US as well as 
> globally in
> 2000? Thanks.
> 
> Naomi Baron
> Professor of Linguistics
> American University
> Washington, DC 20016
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