The „OlViO“ project1 deals with knowledge management and e-learning asintegral parts of organizational learning in virtual organizations. Some of theproblems encountered in classical organizations become even harder in virtualorganizations because their members are distributed and cooperate...

In diesem Beitrag beschreiben wir, welche Ideen und Zielen wir mit der Schaffungund Unterstützung von Knowledge Communities im Kontext des Projektes„Olvio - Organisationales Lernen in virtuellen Organisationen“ verbinden. Wirbeschreiben dazu kurz die Metapher der Wissenslandschaft, gehen...

I received a masters degree in Computer Science at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, specializing in Database Systems and Artificial Intelligence. Becoming more and more interested into the interplay between social systems and software systems, I decided to work in much more...

Verschiedene Definitionen von „virtuellen Communities“ aus den RichtungenWirtschaftswissenschaften, Community Networks und e-Learning erscheinen mir zu speziellund auf ihr Forschungsumfeld ausgerichtet. Ich glaube, dass man den Begriff nur mit einer„Definition“ beschreiben kann, die...

One of the most revolutionary aspects of the internet is that everyone1 can be a sender and airher views world-wide. The opportunity to communicate asynchronously with othersindependent of time and place makes the medium most attractive. Our vision is to use thatoption to enable every interested...