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Section 2: Starting a Rural Accommodation
2.6 Cooperation with other Entrepreneurs

Virtual Community

The online community can be a good opportunity for the communication and for the cooperation too.

An online community is a virtual community that exists online whose members enable its existence through taking part in membership rituals.Online communities are used for a variety of social and professional groups interacting via the Internet. It does not necessarily mean that there is a strong bond among the members. An email distribution list may have hundreds of members and the communication which takes place may be merely informational (questions and answers are posted), but members may remain relative strangers and the membership turnover rate could be high. This is in line with the liberal use of the term community.Your professional network of trusted contacts gives you an advantage in the development and upgrading of your accommodation. This kind of websites exists to help you make better use of your professional network and help the people you trust in return. Community mission is to connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful.

In a global connected economy, your success as a professional and your competitiveness as an accommodation depend upon faster access to insight and resources you can trust.When you join, you create a profile that summarizes your professional expertise and accomplishments. You can then form enduring connections by inviting trusted contacts to join LinkedIn and connect to you. Your network consists of your connections, your connections’ connections, and the people they know, linking you to a vast number of qualified professionals and experts. Through your network you can:

Example for online professional community: www.linkedin.com

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