I believe that you can't address the needs of an individual or an organization without impacting the larger community they exist within. As for recruiting as it relates to community, I think of recruiting as the means in which a community ensures diversity in its gene pool. Good recruiting is a function essential to a community's health. With the pace of change as it is, it may be the single most important function a community performs. It most certainly is for business, and healthy businesses are an essential component of a healthy community.
Businesses are the source of a community's ability to change, innovate and adapt.
Our Website is being developed as a tool for individuals, businesses and communities to use to improve these abilities. To be truly effective, we have to do it for the whole community. We're all connected. Unfortunately, they don't have the dimension that off-line communities have. However, as they tend to be very transaction oriented, in certain respects they can exceed the functionality of real communities.