A very interesting slide set - Cultivating knowledge through Communities of Practice - from Steve Dale, the information architect for the award winning local government “Community Hub” online community. He sets out the fundamentals for setting up and encouraging Communities of Practice and the different ways of sharing and developing knowledge.
The presentation takes is business-focused (rather than IT-focused), looking at the methods and roles to get successful Communities.
Tags: business strategy, charity, knowledge, membership organisation, NFP, online communities
Hi Alex,
thanks for picking up and posting about the CoP presentation. Not sure if you spotted it, but there is an earlier (but still relevant) presentation on CoPs at http://www.slideshare.net/stephendale/cop-conversations-to-collaboration-presentation.
I’m presently engaged in architecting the ‘next generation’ CoP platform for public sector services - the ‘Knowledge Hub’. I’ll be posting a blog about this when we’re a bit further forwrd in its development.
Best wishes
Steve