Self-sustained VOCs are communities where relationships between participating members is formed and maintained through virtual encounters in the online community ( Budiman, Adrian M. " Virtual Online Communities: A Study of Internet Based Community Interactions.

Communities formed by " bottom-up " processes are often contrasted to the less vibrant collectivities formed by " top-down " software, in which users ' roles are determined by an external authority and circumscribed by rigidly conceived software mechanisms ( such as access rights ).

CCUB, the Orthodox Doukhobors organization or Community Doukhobors, was succeeded by Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ, formed by Peter P. Verigin ( Peter V. Verigin's son ) in 1938.

The three Communities shared the same membership, the six states that signed the Treaty of Paris and subsequent treaties were known as the " Inner Six " ( the " outer seven " were those countries who formed the European Free Trade Association ).

Northwest Communities Cooperative Inc, an independent broadband provider, was formed in July 2010.

After Devolution in 1999, the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities was formed to give the Jewish Community of Scotland a single democratically accountable voice in dealings with the Scottish Parliament and Executive, other communities, and other statutory and official bodies.

In 2002 the village was designated as a Communities First Area and a Partnership formed.

During his time on the city council, Cisneros formed a relationship with Communities Organized for Public Service ( COPS ), a powerful grassroots Latino advocacy group founded in 1973 whose focus was to push for development funding into the city ’ s Latino communities.

The six states that founded the three Communities were known as the " inner six " ( the " outer seven " were those countries who formed the European Free Trade Association ).

At the 10th anniversary of the Aquarius Festival, the Australian Association of Sustainable Communities ( AASC ) was formed.

Communities were formed at Leipzig, Dresden, Berlin, Offenbach am Main, Worms, Wiesbaden and several other locations.

SAO Herzegovina was formed from the Association of Municipalities ( a government in SFRY ) known as Assembly of the Communities of Eastern Herzegovina, which was formed on 27 May 1991.

Massey co-sponsors the Appalachian Leadership and Education Foundation ( ALEF ) and in 1997 formed Doctors for our Communities with Marshall University, providing MD student loans that are waived if the recipient practices medicine for a minimum of seven years in Massey ’ s operating region.

The leader of the opposition Bob Hawke just before his successful election to government gave a speech at the International Labour Organisation in Geneva, on the possibility of land sharing communities of the type long advocated by the Down to Earth movement, and at a 10th anniversary of the Aquarius Festival gathering at Nimbin, the Australian Association of Sustainable Communities ( AASC ) was formed.

However, many of these new small communities failed, but some are growing like the Twelve Tribes Communities that started in the United States and have grown to many tribes around the world.

Communities of NetWare administrators have sprung up around the Internet, such as abend. org.

There are about 10 to 30 million small-scale miners around the world, according to Communities and Small-Scale Mining ( CASM ).

Recognised as an area of social deprivation, Thornhill was one of 39 areas around the country chosen in 1999 for the New Deal for Communities.

A simple and clear definition is offered by Constance Elise Porter of Notre Dame in a paper entitled " A Typology of Virtual Communities: A Multi-Disciplinary Foundation for Future Research ": " a virtual community is defined as an aggregation of individuals or business partners who interact around a shared interest, where the interaction is at least partially supported and / or mediated by technology and guided by some protocols or norms.

* Guide to the Jewish Communities around Shechem

Stockton has six Living Learning Communities ( LLCs ) that are designed to connect students, faculty and staff around curricular and co-curricular themes and interests.

Communities sprang up around the mines ; development of Boquillas and Terlingua directly resulted from mining operations.

Some of the policies around urban renewal began to change under President Lyndon Johnson and the War on Poverty, and in 1968, the Housing and Urban Development Act and The New Communities Act of 1968 guaranteed private financing for private entrepreneurs to plan and develop new communities.

Emmaus is not a religious organisation, but Communities around the world have kept the name because of its symbolism.

Communities can develop programs that are structured around meeting the needs of elderly persons.

Communities influenced by the sea are found around the shore with maritime cliff vegetation and pockets of salt marsh also present.

Communities have also recently begun to appear around Ghost Dam as well.

Communities in and around Kirkintilloch include:

Beeston Hill has a significant ethnic minority population, with around 40 % of the population from BME Communities.

Some of the partnerships between the school and the community include working for " Communities in Bloom ," contributing to the recycling program at SARCAN, and planting trees around the newly established walking trail.

Communities of Practice like Sap ’ s SDN developer network, Adobe ’ s XMP forum, Sermo for physicians, or domain-specific corporate-internal communities such as those found at HP, revolve around people's professional or vocational needs for connections, information, identity, and sense of belonging.

Cowan was re-elected in the general election of 1981 ( this time defeating Ingebrigtson by around 1350 votes ); the NDP won the election, and he was appointed Minister of Northern Affairs on November 30, 1981, with responsibility for Environmental Management, the Clean Environment Act, the Workers Compensation Act, the Workplace Safety and Health Act, and the Communities Economic Development Fund Act.

Communities of Position built around life stages ( such as teenage years, university / college student years, marriage, or parenthood ) provide individuals with the opportunity to build relationships with others during that particular phase of their lives.

Gilman directed the Context Institute's Sustainable Community Program and coauthored a 1991 report on Ecovillages and Sustainable Communities around the world.

MSN did away with these home pages around 2001-2, not too long after they introduced the Custom Pages and File cab ( later referred to as Documents ) in MSN Communities, which were later called Groups.

More than a decade later, it is now recognized by the Chinese Communities around the world as a major literary award, and has been pivotal in fostering Chinese Literature in Malaysia.

Communities around the lake include Moneta, Huddleston, Union Hall, White House, Penhook and Goodview.

Amongst other policies the Sustainable Communities Plan aimed to regenerate the industrial urban belt in northern England, stretching from Hull to Liverpool and provide hundreds of thousands of homes in South East England centred around the key growth areas of the Thames Gateway, around Luton and Milton Keynes, and the wider area around Cambridge.

" It is possible, according to Catholic doctrine, to affirm correctly that the Church of Christ is present and operative in the churches and ecclesial Communities not yet fully in communion with the Catholic Church, on account of the elements of sanctification and truth that are present in them.

Communities for the personnel were planned and built to include housing, schools, hospitals, churches, and hotels.

Besides the three historic peace churches, they include the Amish, Old Order Mennonites, Conservative Mennonites, Hutterites, Old German Baptist Brethren, Old Order River Brethren, the Brethren in Christ, and others in the Anabaptist tradition ; Doukhobors, Dunkard Brethren, Molokans, Bruderhof Communities, Schwenkfelders, Moravians, the Shakers, and even some groups within the Pentecostal movement.

He founded churches and contributed to the establishment of the Hellenic Communities of Botswana and Angola.

Bucharest is home to the Romanian Orthodox Patriarchy and the Wallachian Metropolitan seat, of the Roman Catholic Archbishopric ( established in 1883 ) and Apostolic Nunciature, of the Archbishopric and Eparchy Council of the local Armenian Apostolic Church, of the leadership of the Federation of the Jewish Communities of Romania as well as an important site for other religions and churches.

When Early Christian Communities began to build churches they drew on one particular feature of the houses that preceded them, the atrium, or courtyard with a colonnade surrounding it.

The Logos movement churches were named the Australian Fellowship of Covenant Communities in 1980, and were led through an eschatological shift in the early 1980s from the Premillennialism of many Pentecostals, to the Postmillennialism of the Presbyterian Reconstructionist theonomists.

The Logos-related churches in 1980 became the Australian Fellowship of Covenant Communities and in the mid-80s were renamed the Covenant Evangelical Church.