A TeleCommunity is a social network, of which the members also collaborate online. Participants may include managers, designers, programmers, researchers, marketeers, lawyers, trainers, sales reps, cybrarians, people involved in education (including students and housewives), consultants, journalists,... and all other creative knowledge workers including writers, film makers, musicians... from all over the world, connected to each other over the Internet.

Collaboration can be for profit, or on a not-for-profit basis.

Sometimes collaboration happens for 100% online, but often it involves a mix of online and face-to-face activities.

TeleCommunities can be formed between people working for the same organization, but more and more individual Internauts are participating in TeleCommunities through informal and formal markets for knowledge and other culture products.