5 Awesome Virtual Communities and Sites for Women
The idea of a community accessible only via my computer screen sounded cold to me at first, but I learned quickly that people can feel passionately about e-mail and computer conferences. I’ve become one of them. I care about these people I met through my computer, and I care deeply about the future of the medium that enables us to assemble. -Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community
According to Howard Rheingold, author of the book The Virtual Community, virtual communities form ‘when people carry on public discussions long enough, with sufficient feeling, to form webs of personal relationships’. Since the Internet craze began back in the mid 1990′s, virtual communities have exploded in the form of forums, online conferences and more, and we have technology to thank for it all. Without technology, virtual communities would not be possible. It is because of technology (as Rheingold states in the Introduction of his book), that virtual communities area able to bring ‘enormous leverage to ordinary citizens at relatively little cost. Another definition of virtual communities that Rheingold submits is as follows:
Virtual communities are social aggregations that emerge from the Net when enough people carry on those public discussions long enough, with sufficient human feeling, to form webs of personal relationships in cyberspace.
That being said, there are several communities that I found just by using Google, which are virtual communities directed towards women. Check them out, ladies!
5 Awesome Virtual Communities for Women
- GirlGeeks.org- an online community for women and girls who are interested in technology
- iVillage.com- a community geared towards women and dealing with health, beauty, pregnancy and entertainment news
- Women Online Worldwide (WOW)- an online community specifically for women and women’s issues
- CafeMom- an online community for women giving advice and support for moms as well as moms-to-be
- bizwomen- A subsidiary of bizjournals, Bizwomen seeks to connect women business execs and entrepreneurs in order to provide support, learn, grow and exchange ideas.
If you are interested in reading Virtual Communities, it is available for free online here.
June 30 2009 02:00 am | Business Building and Other Links
Edith Relation on 30 Jun 2009 at 7:03 am #
Thanks for the links! I was looking for something like this
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Molly on 01 Jul 2009 at 2:26 pm #
I did not see Fabulously40 on your list. This is my favorite site for resources and support.