Online community

The community I chose to research was Chowhound, which is an online community for foodies. The foodie community subjects range from Bars and Restaurants (715,297 posts) to Not About Food (6,376 posts) and several more. The online community can post comments to any of the subjects they choose, adding in their advice, differences and chosen recipes. This site allows for this community to treat it somewhat like a social media site. People will even have some little disagreements within their conversations which sometimes are full-length posts back and forth. However, some people post recipes and ask questions on how to make certain meals for certain people such as kids or for a large party. They will post advice, questions where many people…

Food discourse online community are a group of people who are very opinionated about food and share online recipes with one another. What I found was that people online compare recipes as well as restaurants based on personal experiences. Sometimes these comments under the sites blog can get pretty reckless. When people don't agree they tend to get messy by disrespecting each other online which some may consider as cyber bullying depending the case. But these online food sites are created so…

In the recent history of customer support, online community online forums have emerged as an effective client engagement platform. They promote self-service and enable clients to share their experiences in a place where their viewpoints matter. By interacting with numerous other consumers, not just does a consumer learn more about their experiences however likewise finds beneficial responses to all his inquiries. Community online forums can assist a company in quicker resolution of problems and…

collaboratively in an online community are more prominent than others. Asking questions and expressing ideas in writing opens the lines of communication (Garcia & Badia, 2014) allowing the entire group to have questions answered in writing which is beneficial to all parties, as it enables all people in the online community to have a better understanding of the subject at hand. The opinions and the point of view of others in the group facilitate co-constructing (O’Donnell, 2012). Co-constructing…

Building a Valuable Online Community Word-of-mouth marketing has always been considered the purest and best form of marketing, and social media has continued to prove this fact in many ways. People like to share with and feel connected to each other, brands, organizations, and even governments they like and trust. It’s not a secret that social media is like the little black dress of marketing, branding, and public relations; you must have it now in order to complete your personal brand’s…

Certified Health Education Specialists offer education and resources to educate a community in caring for ones health. Fostering the education process encourages the public to take action in regards to their health and well being, where health has not been a priority. Knowledge of health education, passing a certification exam and dedication to public health represents a few of the requirements that these individuals must master. The process to becoming a Certified Health Education Specialist…

social science community, theorist Barry Wellman focuses on an idea that there is three views of a community while studying what social systemic divisions affect organization and the primary social networks between people. The idea of this “the community question” and the degrees of social networking led Wellman to examine the three arguments, if a community is either: lost, saved, and/or liberated. According to Wellman, the first urban sociological response to the community question is that a…

Community is a concept that has a variety of meanings, in which sociological theorists have debated its true definition for years. However, out of all the definitions given, each one is related to a common set of ideas that a community, based on thousands of years of history and human interactions, is made up of unified groups of people in a specific area that that often share common interests and interactions with one another. Therefore, this is what constitutes a community in a generalized…

educators and communities, particularly, those in underserved areas, to facilitate meaningful making and learning experiences with youth. Our Vision, every child is a “Maker”. Our Mission, to create more opportunities for all young people to develop confidence, creativity, and interest in science, technology, engineering, math, art, and learning as a whole through making (Makered.org, 2016). Values. We currently focus on five key values that support our mission and vision. They are as…

Sometimes living at a certain community doesn’t make you a part of it. Part of the reason can be that one can be so isolated from it, it feels like one lives somewhere else. For example, I live in Riverdale, a quiet community in the Bronx. Not that I don't like the community, I feel like I live in a safe area, but nothing even remotely interesting seems to occur in the Dale. When I leave my apartment to catch the bus that takes me to college, I walk by a couple of newspaper racks and never even…