On paving informal paths, see
resources on social and informal learning at Jane Hart’s Social Learning Centre:
http://sociallearningcentre.co.uk/
On curation, see Beth Kanter’s blog post “Content Curation 101”: http://www.bethkanter.org/content-curation-101/
On the Cheesecake Factory’s video café: http://www.bersin.com/News/Details.aspx?id=14676
On communities, see Katja Pastoors’s
comparison of types of communities of practice as well as the dynamics of
top-down v. bottom-up communities of practice: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1585429
For a study on
understanding the workings of a successful community of practice, see Bozarth,
J. “The Usefulness of Wenger’s Framework in Understanding an Existing Community
of Practice”: http://repository.lib.ncsu.edu/ir/bitstream/1840.16/4978/1/etd.pdf