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A course in Remagen developed first technical and conceptual concepts
for the Achill Virtual Community. Through online communication the
German students worked together with the other four nations on the
provisional community. A lot was to come and the workshop on Achill
changed different parts of the community website to make it more
attractive and bring it to life.
The basic idea behind the community concept was the topic for the
course that took place throughout the winter semester in Remagen.
Have a look at the outline:
• how do these communities work?
• what kinds of communities are there?
• what does a business plan of such a community look like?
• what makes the participants contribute?
• what services are offered to the emigrants?
The task will be to design a virtual community for the Achill emigrants who have emigrated mostly to the USA but also to other countries.
The company will try to customize a virtual community to the needs of emigrants from Achill Island:
• where can we find clusters of emigrants from Achill?
• how are they trying to keep in touch with Achill?
• what are the reasons for keeping in touch?
• what kind of virtual community would satisfy their needs?
• what kind of customized business plan is needed?
The company has branches in Sweden, France, Spain, and
Belgium which will be helpful in the market research and will collect
data from these different countries (in the national languages).
They will compare in how far the nationality has an influence on
the running of the virtual communities and how such a community
could be customized for Achill emigrants.
In February 2005 the company had done a field trip to Achill Island
with some of their employees in order
• to attract potential participants to the community
• to organise seminars on genealogy and cultural identity
• to create an event that draws attention to the virtuall community
