While many groups will have similar descriptions of their purpose (learning, tap into the organisation's knowledge in the domain, solve problems faster, standardise practices etc), each group needs to have this conversation. Knowledge Market : this process encourages participants to identify things they can offer (specific techniques, documents etc) and things they need to learn or need help with. On Tuesday I worked with three new communities of practice in a government agency. Each group was quite different but in all of them we talked about the things the groups should do

Home Thinkingshift is ThinkingShift CoPs 101 December 9, 2008 · Filed under Communities of Practice , Knowledge Management , Useful resources , YouTube Once again, I find myself in need of explaining CoPs (communities of practice) to people I’m working with. I’ve been working with CoPs since 2002 in the same organisation. There’s been the usual ups and downs - a couple of CoPs bit the dust (really because they’d reached the limits of their purpose); senior management have tried to get their claws into the CoPs or grilled me over ROI on the CoPs; and the CoPs have survived a recent restructure.

Subject matter expert  - in CoP lingo, these are the people who have a sharp focus on the domain (see  CoP Series #2 ). Again, in CoP lingo, the tutor may be focused both on domain  and it’s application: practice (see CoP Series #4 ) In CoP lingo, they pay attention to community (see CoP Series #5) . Community Leadership in Learning - bees, mentors, coaches, experts and friends  This is the sixth  in a series of blog posts I wrote for  Darren Sidnick .

The is the fourth post exploring more about Community, Domain and Practice aspects of CoPs mentioned in the first post of this series on communities of practice (CoPs). CoPs are not about learning things in the abstract. This is why businesses and organizations have been so interested in CoPs — they see them as a way to improve practices in the context of work. This is the fourth in a series of blog posts I wrote for Darren Sidnick . I

I’ve written in the past of a support team using CoP tools to ask questions (forums), share tips (blogs), list workarounds to processes (wikis)…in all everyone can learn off each other. Combination of Support Database and an Online space (CoP) The discussion happens in the CoP forums where it passes everyone’s radar (as our support database doesn’t Now what about the customer? Traditional designed Support Database

Apin Talisayon’s Weblog – Knowledge Management provides useful TOOLS but it leaves MANY GAPS – Oops! (Learn CoP portal before community building We helped a loose network of NGOs set up their CoP portal, with the help of Phase 1 money from a donor development institution. was very pleased with our proposal, which described a multi-level learning, CoP and IT-enabled processes. Learn from My KM Mistakes) Oops! #1. 1.

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