Online community are all groups of people gathered around a common goal or topic via the Internet. They usually interact with each other by information portals and social networking sites.
Implementing information portals or social networking sites it is worth to put emphasis on the use of advanced technological solutions. It is so crucial, because such websites are inherently massively visited by Internet users. Both the CMS platform and the server infrastructure, which responsible for the maintenance and proper portal’s work must be prepare for periodic spikes of interest reaching up to 1 million visits per day.
Both thematic portals and social networking sites are created in such way to give users opportunity to contribute to their content.
A social networking site allows Internet users to collaborate by commenting, rating, delivering articles, news, video files, photos or links to other sites. Thanks to this, website fills up with content much faster and, using the collective intelligence of virtual users, over time creates a valuable online community.