Web communities often seem geared for leisure time activities rather than "getting stuff done" in the business realm. However, social networking sites are at least as useful in the business world as for interacting with hobby affinity groups. The China Access site is demonstrative of using the power of a web community to establish international business opportunities through networking and knowledge sharing.

Rhino Records came to the wise fellows formerly known as Bryght for assistance in re-working the venerable Internet destination for a band which defines community participation - The Grateful Dead.

The Rhino team came with a good idea of their goals - mostly based on feedback from the Dead community who waited with bated breath for what would happen next to their beloved band's online presence.

No useless navel-gazing blather on this blog, Miss 604 is a living textbook about producing and promoting a hyper-local blog. Since 2004, Rebecca Bollwitt has served up an vast and compelling assortment of Vancouver activities, activist missives, girlie reflections and techie narratives.

When this venerable publisher of romance novels came to Raincity Studios, they arrived with a deep understanding of their customers and already had a vision of a participatory community in mind.

Votika is the brain child of a business grad school student Yuk Man Liang who approached Raincity Studios to fill in the talent gaps his team lacked for building and launching a cultural voting community site.

The concept is a weighted voting scheme in which community members assemble "top ten" lists of everything from politicians to "hot babes" and then vote list items up or down. The goal is to harvest the opinions of trend-setters and "Joe Public" alike to
enable social networking and cultural exchange based on similarities in taste and opinion.