Very early in our KM journey, we got tired of debating the distinctions and trying to fit our communities into an outside definition. We decided to call them Knowledge Communities and structured them

I would ask them to answer these questions: If knowledge management is working really well for an organization, what does it look like, and how does it work? In your current (or most recent)

Neil, Thanks for asking the question. I used to differentiate between communities of practice and communities of interest, but I no longer find differentiating community types to be useful. So I

I'm leading a KM Masterclass (starts in January in Toronto - for more info see: http://www.institute.ischool.utoronto.ca/KM%20MasterClass.asp . Its aimed at the next-gen of KM Leaders - people who

All Various theorists (Wenger, St. Onge, others) have proposed different types of communities: communities of practice, interest, purpose, action, etc. I'm wondering if the KM community has reached

If the cost of entry into any community is too high few will enter. It is important to remember the upswing of "bring your own device" (byod) to work and mobile computing are relatively new. We

Good discussion folks, Agree with the overall sentiment that community sites are about "community" - a place the stimulates conversation & interaction between people (OK some processes that are

There have been some great comments in this thread. Here are a few more ideas. 1. Give communities names which help potential members understand what each community is about. Try to use easily

Neil, Totally agree with Nancy. Forget about an overall architecture (you can get back to that later), focus ont he language and topics that are important to the discipline of the network. We sit down

Hi Neil, You have some great learnings available in the US on this topic through your National Cooperative Extension system and www.extension.org

Great job, Jeff! The only thing I would add is a 'what's new' feature on the CoP site that shows what has been changed/added. This feature has some architectural design needs and frequently falls

Neil: I've had quite a bit of experience designing CoP sites in SharePoint and other tools. We all know about connect vs. collect, with finding others to ask questions or get quick advice being

Neil, As other people have noted, there's different ways of answering this question. 1. The first is the features of a generic online community space. I would look at your existing CoP activities and

At EY the labeling of our communities - which is a precursor to our taxonomy mimics organizational structure. We are a heavily matrixed organization so that concept presents itself differently by

I have had a great deal of experience with CoP and was wondering if you have a corporate taxonomy that can be use to formalize the groups and be use to establish the architecture? Does your

Hi, Neil, Generically, I would aim for groupware that can form subgroups or new outgrowth groups, allow folks to post docs and comment on them, allow for multiple threads of conversations, be

Lee Great question and I hadn't deeply considered it at all. I guess the answer has to be both. Certainly the interaction of communities (boundary spanning, cross fertilization, etc.) contributes to

Neil - Are you thinking of the space of an individual community? Or the information architecture of a whole group of communities? I think they are very different answers. Regards Lee

Neil, In my experience each community needs the flexibility to organize their information in the way that fits the type of knowledge they are discussing. As the community meets to discusses topics and

I’m well along on developing aknowledge services architecture but I haven’t gotten to the CoP part yet,so I would also be interested. In return, I could share what I’ve donefor collaboration