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***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** Dear Emilie, I believe LinkedIn is such an example. It started as a unique virtual community but now there are several topical/geographical sub-groups (mostly Yahoo groups) such as LinkedIn power forum, LinkedIn Innovators, LinkedIn groups in various areas of the world. Check: http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=linkedin for some information. Another one that I am aware of is the Harvard Startup list which branched out into the West Coast (Bay area I believe): http://www.harvard-startups.org/. Finally, smaller scale but same idea, you can visit www.swiss-list.com and you will see that after a main mailing list was started out of the West coast, it gave birth to a topical list (startup) and geographical (east coast). Disclaimer: I am a moderator of both sub-lists. Hope this helps! Best -- Pascal _______________________________________________ Pascal Marmier Advisor, Innovation and Entrepreneurship SHARE Boston, Consulate of Switzerland 420 Broadway Cambridge, MA 02138 Ph: (617) 876-3076 ext. 13 Fax: (617) 876-3079 Cell: (617) 331-3989 Email: [log in to unmask] Web: www.shareboston.org Skype: themarm _______________________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: Social Networks Discussion Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Emilie MARQUOIS-OGEZ Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 4:15 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Birth of virtual communities ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** Hello everyone, I'm looking for examples of virtual communities that gave bearth to other virtual communities. I mean that the members of one virtual community (a mailing-list for instance) decided to have two virtual communities instead of one. The first one is about a subject and the second one is about another subject (linked to the first one, more specific, for instance). Have you ever heard of cases like this? Many thanks. Regards, Emilie Marquois-Ogez ---------------------------------------------- Emilie Marquois-Ogez Doctorante en informatique France Telecom R&D 38-40, rue du Général Leclerc 92794 Issy-les-Moulineaux Cedex France Equipes de recherche : - TECH/EASY/DIAG (France Telecom R&D) - Systèmes à objets coopératifs (IRIT - UT1) Tel : +33 (01) 45 29 81 91 Fax : +33 (01) 45 29 69 26 Page Web : http://www.univ-tlse1.fr/ceriss/soc/perso/marquois/Emilie% 20MARQUOIS.html _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message. _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.