Hello all!

I want to first of all thank all of you for your graceful participation and your interest in my thesis. I have created this topic (as the title mentions, obviously) to keep you updated on my advancements and on my results.

So far I am struggling with my literary review (I hold a full time job AND I work on my master's thesis, so struggling might not even be strong enough a word!). My first chapter reviews traditional community (social ie church groups and girl scouts, and consumption ie Harley Davidson), and its implications to the marketing management.

My second chapter (that I am now working on) reviews the evolution of technology (birth of the internet, Web 1.0, Web 2.0, semantic web, virtual environments) and the evolutions of virtual communities (from controled communities of 10 years ago, to "free" user-generated communities of today).

I am now trying to establish some sort of paralellism between the two (read only web = controlled communities vs. read and write web = user generated communities). I will also dig out the new implications for marketing management. And the next step will be comparing the traditional vs. virtual, find the most important differences, so that I can concentrate the rest of my research on a specific part of the whole phenomenon...

So... there you go! I will certainly keep you updated!

Sounds excellent. I am definitely interested now. Love the material.

Besides, you live in the same part of the United States as my sister... ie. Canada

I'm especially interested in the "Community 3.0" part 

ahhm Richard>.. thems fighting words...

If I may say so Richard, on this you are two canadians against one australian...

hahaha add a non-Canadian voice to that!

Good stuff Aureliel! Sounds like you have a focused plan so far

I'll make sure to pass on anything related I come across

Sounds like an interesting read.. are you going to post a copy of the completed thesis on tangler?

Hello all,

After a long absence from Tangler to to work/school/moving, etc., I need yout help

I have a questionnaire that I need to pass around as part of my research

I would apreciate any help I could get!

The questionnaire is available here:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Yx5nOukiYhbJR4GwhlTL_2bA_3d_3d

Il est aussi disponible en français:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=T4vjbc_2fDYZkYjfQkn4rYsQ_3d_3d

Please also forward to your friends!

Merci! Thank you!

Done and dusted!

Hope that helps!
 

Oh, and I'm not sure if it an issue or not, but the very last page didn't load for me. I hope the results still got to you

It should have, I had a new response this morning =)

Alright, good stuff

Hey, I just had an idea AurelieL, you should announce this in General Conversation. You'll reach more people that way.

Forgot to mention that I've submitted a response. Hope it helps, and that you do well...