The Second International Conference on
Virtual Communities

in co-operation with

Bath, England, 25-26 March 1999

Bath Spa Hotel

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Thursday 25 March 1999

Session One: The virtual communities environment

Joseph P Cothrel
Next Generation Research Group, Arthur Andersen Knowledge Services, Illinois, USA

to -Where we are with virtual communities: a current benchmark

Dan Winfield
IMM Studios, London, England

to -Developing a flexible, scalable and structured back end to a virtual community: the importance of getting it right


Mark Elderkin
Pridecom Productions, San Francisco, USA

to -Building a successful grassroots global community


Charles Oppenheim
University of Loughborough, England

to -The legal and regulatory environment for global virtual communities

Session Two: Real experiences and case studies

Stefan Kerner
Designercity, London, England

to -The Arsenal Football Club virtual community: What we did, what we've learned, and where we are going


Judith Hoffman
Excite

to -Launching a new virtual community: Some lessons from the Excite experience


James Kraft
Motley Fool, London, England

to -Porting successful US community models to Europe


Lisa de Araujo
Cyberlife Technology, Cambridge, England

to -Gaming and virtual communities: Helping a community to build itself


Richard Green
Well Engaged, California, USA

to -The hosting concept: an aspect of online communities that is too often left entirely to chance

Friday 26 March  1999

Session Three: Virtual communities in the real world

Ian Campbell
Northcliffe Electronic Publishers, England

to -From ink to electronics: Positioning local newspapers on the Web


Anthony Kleanthous
London, England

to -Stakeholder communications on the web: a practical guide to how major industrial corporations can protect their licence to operate in the 21st century


Graham Davies
CiX, Llanrwst, Wales

Ingredients for a successful working community: the CiX experiences

Session Four: Site construction, integration and development

Sylvia Lacock
California, USA

to -Tools for enabling virtual communities


Dawn Yankeelov
Dawn Marie Interactive, Kentucky, USA

to -Case Study: Applications of 3-D visualisation in virtual communities


Jeff Tidwell
ETrade, California, USA

to -The Third Place: Some foundational theories for developing online communities


Geoff Stead

Cambridge Training & Development (CTAD), Cambridge, England

to -Teaching and learning with Writing Web: a virtual community for primary literacy?

Andrew Gray
Sift, Bristol, England

Local area search engines and other components of virtual communities

Mark Elderkin
PrideCom Productions, California, USA

to -Volano real-time community building tools


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