The community of practice ecosystem - On competition, cooperation, differentiation, and the role of blogs

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The community of practice ecosystem - On competition, cooperation, differentiation, and the role of blogs
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Communities of practice are known as social entities within which members exchange
experience and views, spinning each other’s tacit knowledge into conversations and
knowledge objects that allow its transmission.

This paper will briefly argue that such “entities” are not homogenous blocs, but complete
ecosystems in which different types of resource serve different roles, and relate to
each other either in symbiosis or in competition for the limited resources of practitioner time,
work and opinion. Such ecosystem feeds and is fed by the conversations of the
community.

This paper will also strive to place blogs in such a perspective. Blogs are a type of
personal web pages defined by their strong focus on the personal views of a particular
author, and by their modern web publishing tools and cross-linking methodology.

We will be looking at each of these matters from what (hopefully) is a new point of
view, as defined by an economic perspective and a focus on knowledge management
and communities of practice. And we will try to do it without presuming the reader
has a deep knowledge of the matter.

Author
Miguel Cornejo Castro
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Miguel Cornejo
Date published
06 Jul 04
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3.02 Mb
Categories
Business Processes
Capture
Communities and Collaboration
CoPs
Critical Incident Management
Critical Incidents Management
Education and Research
Human and Social
Human Side of KM
Implementation
IT and Infrastructure
KB - KM for Beginners
KM for Beginners
KM Strategy and Vision
Knowledge Culture
Knowledge Engineering
Knowledge Structuring
Member Content
Models and Taxonomies
Networks
Quaerere
Saber Latino
Strategy and Vision
Tacit Knowledge
Theory and Terminology
Language
English
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