Paper Info
Title
Business Models for Mobile Communities
Abstract
Communities (especially virtual communities) of Interest have been the focus of substantial discussion in academic literature. This paper addresses Communities of Interest within the leisure industry and discusses possible business models for the parties operating the platform. The described community platform is an innovative value added service concept for a mobile coordination support for individuals - A Mobile Community Support System. In this paper we extend the discussion about mobile communities to hybrid communities. The communities are hybrid in two ways: they use two different access channels, the Web and mobile devices, and they are built on real-world leisure communities that constitute themselves in the form of buddy lists in the virtual world of an ICT supported platform. The discussion on possible business models is concluded with some final remarks about future research.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/HICSS.2005.132
HICSS
Keywords
Field
DocType
possible business model,mobile community,community platform,discusses possible business model,mobile coordination support,business models,mobile device,leisure industry,substantial discussion,paper addresses communities,hybrid community,mobile communities,telephony,gsm,business model,business,virtual worlds,information science,mobile communication,statistics
World Wide Web,Electronic business,Leisure industry,Mobile community,Computer science,Mobile business development,Knowledge management,Mobile device,Business model,Value-added service,Mobile telephony
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1530-1605
0-7695-2268-8-7
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.75
13
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Petra Schubert119030.60
J. Felix Hampe213727.21