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Life cycle. Maturity. Transience is eternal. Cycles of growth and decay are infinitely scalable, and community managers and members see signs of them every day in their online interactions. The concepts are scarcely unique to online communities.
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Rob Howard posting on Mashable July 30, 2010. Available at: http://mashable.com/2010/07/30/sustainable-online-community/
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The Community Roundtable. “The 2013 State of Community Management.” Available at: http://www.communityroundtable.com/research/the-state-of-community-management/the-state-of-community-management-2013/ (Accessed on July 10, 2013).
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The Community Roundtable Network, 2009. Available at: http://www.communityroundtable.com/research/community-maturity-model/
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United States Patent Application, Strong et al., US 2013/0089850 A1, Published April 11, 2013.
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Ibid. 8.
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Brooks, M., Lovett, J.J., Creek, S. (2013). Life Cycle and Maturity Models for Online Communities. In: Developing B2B Social Communities. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4714-2_4
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