"From a community-of-practice perspective, all three are facets of learning and, where it is supported, learning occurs in all three facets at once: meeting new people, acquiring new conversational and technical skills, and learning about a subject." 09/22/2006 John D. Smith & Beverly Trayner
"Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly." ~ Etienne Wenger