First, from a CoP perspective, the platform is NOT the community. If you are trying to foster a CoP, there needs to be attention to both community, domain and practice. With so many software packages like Moodle and hosted platforms like Ning, you are often given a ton of options. This is the 10th and last in a series of blog posts I wrote for  Darren Sidnick  about communities of practice in an elearning context late last year. I

was simply unaware of the label, the research and scholarship around these things we call “CoPs.” 8221; Back in the late 90’s technology was just used for distributed Cops - folks who could not physically be together. Through this work I also connected with a specific community, Knowledge Management for Development or “ KM4Dev ” which turned out to be one of my most important CoPs. This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. I

am reminded of my experience supporting instructor use of online course management software (such as WebCT, Blackboard, Angel and Moodle). Tags: community technology cptech01 Musings learning Co In the just-completed CPSquare “Connected Futures” workshop many of us have struggled learning, and learning to use, new Web 2.0 technologies.

Could you please share with me what the practices (and or policies) regarding the “housing” of CoPs in your organizations are?  It’s interesting to me that to accomplish the learning objectives for the University’s own staff, they needed to bring along so many “outsiders” on the original Moodle platform. Anyway, at one point they added a Ning site and a Facebook group to their original Moodle space.  Yesterday someone on the staff of the Inter-American Development Bank asked an interesting question on com-prac : Do you house them

I know that the kind of steps described here are not in themselves going to build a knowledge sharing community or CoP but they could serve as pointers perhaps. Which tools are most appropriate for people in this situation: e-mail (usually Hotmail or Yahoo), d-group, Google-group, LMS (Moodle), Portal, Blog, Wiki . I have been involved in country-based online training courses run by CIARIS/ILO in the area of Social Inclusion in Lusophone African countries over the last year or so. The issue of creating links between practitioners in different countries and also maintaining links