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Welcome to the Communities of Practice (CoPs) resources page.  The materials on this site are some of those originally developed in the course of helping a client roll out a company-wide knowledge management (KM) initiative.  The materials here have been adapted for more general audiences. 

Collaboration 

A presentation which explores the process of developing and nurturing

A community for people who are happy to share!

Welcome to the KMAfrica.com Special Interest Groups (SIGs) homepage. You'll need to be a registered KMAfrica.com user to contribute to the SIGs. Registration on KMAfrica.com is free. Participation includes providing useful commentary on published papers and commentary made by other participants. If there are topics that you feel should be covered, you may also request to have your own SIG created on the KMAfrica KnowledgeHub platform.

About the importance of the community facilitator in developing the environment for succesful collaboration and knowledge sharing. An on-line community without a facilitator is like having a battery-driven toy - but without the batteries!

Discourse on privacy and trust

There is another rule of thumb - that it is difficult to form trusting social relationships in groups of more than 150 (Dunbar's number). This seems to be the average size of tribes, military fighting units, and (according to some sources) web 2.0 circles. Within a group of 150, strong social ties of relationship and trust can form.

"Tell your story any way you'd like. Known is a simple platform for publishing words, pictures, podcasts and more to a site that you control. Choose to share it on networks like Twitter and Facebook, or the software you already use."

Do you need to evaluate community platforms? Are you being asked to justify your existing platform? Are you looking at platform gaps but are not sure you are thinking of everything?