The case for on-line communities, continued

How community features build value

We then identified the relevant value drivers for each model and studied the impact of community features on 17 major consumer sites. Our analysis of B2C sites provided direct evidence for an on-line community’s impact on four of the six value drivers studied—and, in particular, for three of the five drivers of transaction sites and three of the four drivers of content sites.

Chart: The seven e-business models

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