The present study explores the effect of inbound marketing factors on marketing performance. The statistical population was composed of all customers of six restaurants with Gilaki names in Rasht, which are active in cyberspace. A total of 400 individuals were selected by convenience sampling. The standard scales included visibility management, active listening, community building, wor...

Following a 2006 study aimed at evaluating the validity of pattern languages within the context of civic communication and social change, a number of insights emerged connected to the field of system dynamics and the practice of process monitoring. The study revealed that both system dynamics and process monitoring provide a number of opportunities for further grounding pattern thinking, as wel...

With theoretical advances conceptualizing learning as a social, distributed and collective process, there is a need to capture and assess community knowledge— knowledge as a social product that has an out-in-the-world existence and has value to a community. There has now been much progress in analyzing collaborative processes and interactions in CSCL, we propose extending the analyses including...

The CHANGE approach to capacity-building assistance (CBA), developed over 4 years by the Latino Commission on AIDS Manos Unidas' Program to assist Latino-serving community-based HIV prevention programs in eight northern U.S. states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, is a system for providing community-based organizations (CBOs) with not only the skills to implement interventions from th...

Introduction Methodological Considerations in the Design of Community Information Systems Ontological Assumptions Axiological Assumptions Participatory Design and the Negotiation of Community Values The Connected Kids Database Design Process and Outcomes Participatory-Design Protocol Building a Shared Purpose Negotiating Users' Needs Negotiating System Specifications Conclusion References Ackno...

Building relationships among participants has become a strategic lynchpin of many community organizing initiatives. Although the relational work of organizing is often mentioned in studies on community change, it has not been studied as a process or model for community intervention. This article positions the development of a specific type of relationships—public relationships—as a transactiona...