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Business Definition for: Community

  • a group of Internet users with a shared interest or concept who interact with each other in newsgroups, mailing-list discussion groups, and other online interactive forums

Wiktionary Definition for: Community

  • group of people sharing a common understanding who reveal themselves by using the same language, manners, tradition and law. (see civilization)
  • commune or residential/religious collective
  • the condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common
  • (Ecology) a group of interdependent plants or animals growing or living together.

Additional Resources

Community Trust Bancorp, Inc. Acquires Heritage Community Bank of Danville
PIKEVILLE, Ky. -- Community Trust Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTBI) is pleased to announce that it has completed its acquisition of Heritage Community Bank of Danville, Kentucky. On June 10, 2005, Heritage Community Bank was merged with Community Trust Bank, Inc., the bank subsidiary of Community Trust Bancorp, Inc. All former...
Research articles 2005-06-13
A Low-Key Community Power.(Target Stores, Target Corp.'s community service)(Brief Article)
COMMUNITY COMMUNITY
Tags: Target Corp.
Research articles 2001-03-19
Texas Community Care Supports the Community in El Paso
EL PASO, Texas, May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Community Care, a subsidiary of Arcadian Health Plan, has provided Medicare Advantage plans for the El Paso community for three years. Although their business is healthcare, Texas Community Care's local involvement goes beyond serving that one section of the community.
Tags: El Paso Corp.
Research articles 2008-05-14
Community Trust Bancorp, Inc. to Acquire Heritage Community Bank of Danville
PIKEVILLE, Ky. -- Jean R. Hale, Chairman, President and CEO of Community Trust Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTBI) and William Ruth, Chairman of Heritage Community Bank of Danville, Kentucky are pleased to announce that they have entered into a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Heritage Community Bank by Community Trust Bank,...
Tags: bank
Research articles 2005-03-15
United Community Banks, Inc. to Present on the West Coast at the Community Bank Investor Conference
United Community Banks, Inc. (NASDAQ: UCBI) today announced it will participate in the Community Bank Investor Conference in San Francisco on February 22. The conference is hosted by America's Community Bankers.
Research articles 2006-02-14
TV Guide Expands # 1 TV Community With LiveWorld's Community Center
LOS GATOS, Calif. -- LiveWorld, Inc. (Pink Sheets:LVWD), a leading online customer community agency, announced today that Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc., (NASDAQ:GMST) has selected LiveWorld's Community Center as the community platform for its newly redesigned site, launched this month at www.tvguide.com
Tags: TV, TV Guide
Research articles 2006-09-13
Community Food Security Assessment Toolkit
This report provides a toolkit of standardized measurement tools for assessing various aspects of community food security. It includes a general guide to community assessment and focused materials for examining six basic assessment components related to community food security. These include guides for profiling general community characteristics and community food...
Tags: Food, Manufacturing, Food & Beverage
White papers 2002-07-01
Media Advisory: Signing at Mercer County Community College
WHAT: ETS and Mercer County Community College will sign a three-year agreement to collaborate in the development and pilot testing of assessment and instructional solutions for community colleges. It is the first...
Tags: Mercer
Research articles 2006-08-25
Measuring Community Benefits Provided by For-Profit and Nonprofit Hospitals
This paper develops a new method of identifying activities that should qualify as community benefits and of determining a benchmark for the amount of community benefits a nonprofit hospital should be expected to provide. It then compares estimates of nonprofits' current level of community benefits with benchmark and shows that...
Tags: Healthcare, Human Resources, Benefits, Community Benefit, Hospital
White papers 2001-10-30
AAOS Launches Philanthropic Initiative In conjunction With Annual Meeting
Improving the status of a community, at large, is the first and foremost aim of a professional. He/she is committed to use the knowledge he/she has acquired to further the cause of the community. The feeling of brotherhood binds the professional to the community he/she serves and motivates the professional...
Tags: Community, Center For Association Leadership, Case Study, Strategy, Management
Case studies 2003-01-01
Crisis Communication Tips
When a syphilis outbreak takes place in the community, most often the state or local health department will execute a communication plan to inform key segments of the community about the issue. But as an organization supporting the Syphilis Elimination Effort SEE, what should one do or how can one...
Tags: Community, Health Care, Crisis Communication, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
White papers 2005-03-07
Misys Center for Community Health Leadership Accepting Grant Applications
Grant Program to Provide Resources for Implementation of EHRs, Community by Community
Tags: leadership, Misys
Research articles 2006-10-11
Understanding the SEC's new regulation FD
This report, a quarterly feature of Community Banker, summarizes the ACB Market Maker Group's quarterly conference call. The Market Maker Group is primarily made up of analysts that follow community bank stocks. These conference calls are also open to community bank members of America's Community Bankers. The focus of these...
Tags: conference call, SEC
Research articles 2001-03-01
HIV Prevention Community Planning Guidance
This Guidance for HIV Prevention Community Planning defines the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's CDC expectations of health departments and HIV prevention community planning groups CPGs in implementing HIV prevention community planning. The HIV Prevention Community Planning Guidance provides a blue-print for HIV prevention planning and provides flexible direction...
Tags: Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Health Care, HIV Prevention Community Planning Guidance, Prevention
White papers 2003-08-22
IBM's Developer Community Achieves Record Growth in 2006 and Advances Open Source Development
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that its developer community has grown at an unprecedented rate this year, with nearly 1,700 worldwide developers joining its growing community per day. Throughout the year, developerWorks noted several trends, as illustrated by the high demand for content and community-based resources. Java, Service Oriented...
Tags: IBM Corp., open source
Research articles 2006-12-27
Community Capital Corporation Added to America's Community Bankers NASDAQ Index
GREENWOOD, S.C. -- Community Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: CPBK) today announced that its stock has been added to the America's Community Bankers NASDAQ Index (NASDAQ: ACBQ). The index includes more than 525 community banks with a market capitalization of nearly $220 billion.
Research articles 2006-06-15
Commercialization of Small Hydro Through Community Participation
This paper aimed to provide a model for the development of a community owned, grid connected renewable energy business, which can be applied to other RE initiatives. These aims were met in part, but due to the short timescale, were found to be very ambitious. A number of salient lessons...
Tags: Community, Renewable Energy, Telecom & Utilities
White papers 2000-04-11
MetLife Foundation Announces New Initiative to Promote Innovation in Community Colleges; Colleges Address Community Needs
NEW YORK -- MetLife Foundation today announced that it will contribute grants totaling $500,000 to support community colleges in meeting the educational needs of their communities. E[acute accent]The goal of the MetLife Foundation Community College Connection Program is to stimulate novel, interesting and creative approaches to education on and off...
Tags: MetLife Inc.
Research articles 2005-07-13
Allied Telesyn, Inc. Announces Fiber to the Home Deployment Part of Loma Linda Connected Community Program; 'Wired' Community Preview May 26, 27 at Loma Linda Community Showcase
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Tags: Connected Corp., FTTH, Wired Inc.
Research articles 2004-05-17
Community Bancorp Announces Resignation of Director Charles Norton
Community Bancorp (NASDAQ: CBON), the bank holding company for Community Bank of Nevada and Cactus Commerce Bank announced today the resignation of Director Charles Norton from the Community Bancorp and Community Bank of Nevada boards of directors. Mr. Norton cited a desire to more actively focus on family in...
Tags: Norton Co.
Research articles 2006-10-03
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