COVID-19 has forced many of us to take a step back and define the importance of communities. When the most vulnerable are feeling the crisis at its most brutal, it’s incumbent on us all to step up and ...

Experts from the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and New_ Public have published an innovative new approach to measure the health of online communities. According to their report, ...

Aristotle called humans “the social animal,” and people have recognized for centuries that young people need to be in communities to develop into healthy adults. The ongoing pandemic has caused ...

In a recent review article published in the journal Communications Psychology, researchers discussed the motivations behind joining digital communities and their diverse individual-level and social ...

Almost anyone can start an online community. However, building membership, keeping people engaged, and retaining members are keys to success. You may be surprised to learn that what attracts members ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Online communities are the bread and butter of consumer engagement today. Communities allow like-minded people to engage on topics that ...

There was a time when community was almost entirely physical. It existed in neighborhood centers, church basements, local coffee shops, sports leagues, and civic organizations. Today, many of those ...

When bots – automated agents that perform tasks on behalf of humans – become more active in online communities, it has profound effects on how humans interact with each other on those platforms. Bots ...

During lockdown, online communities are booming — in the absence of in-person networking, virtual clubs, leagues and meeting spaces are the best way to connect with like-minded people across the world ...