Achill 2005
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This part of Achill ISIS 2005 started in fall 2004. 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: |
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Course outline for preparatory course in winter semester 2004 RheinAhrCampus,
Remagen, founds a virtual consulting company that specialises
in “Emigrant Virtual Communities”. The company will
start by doing research about such communities: • 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 plans 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 |
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goal of the Achill Virtual
Community Workshop (leaded by Thomas Berger) is to implement
the Achill Virtual Community on Achill. Thanks to Karsten and the great work of VC4U we have found a partner on the Island. We will meet with people from the IT-Center on Achill and will discuss possibilities of using the Achill Community e.g. in the framework of courses offered there. According to their needs we might have to modify and enhance the community and its contents. On Friday we have the chance to present our results to a regular course of the IT-Center (our potential users). Further opportunities are currently explored by Karsten and will be presented at the beginning of the course. We are looking for an international team and for key people of VC4U. |
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