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Developing a Community Pitch
Summary: A Community Pitch consists of a few sentences that explain what a Community does and why it is important to its potential members or sponsors. Time is of the essence when creating a Communit...
Community Description
Summary: The Community Description is the first presentation of your Community to a visitor. The goal of the Community Description is to convert visitors into members by attracting your target audienc...
Developing a Community Charter
Summary: The Community Charter is like a “constitution” and a “strategic plan” mixed together: it describes what a Community is about and how it works at a high level. Developing a Community Charter ...
Choosing the Right Online Collaboration Tools and Platforms ...
Summary: Online Collaboration Tools and Platforms let you share resources and conversations and enable you to collaborate remotely with colleagues, peers, and fellow professionals around the world. ...
Choosing a Community's Convening Venues
Summary: A Convening Venue is where Community members meet, connect and communicate. It is essential that you decide on where, how, and when your Community will meet, communicate, and collaborate. In ...
Minimum Viable Community: Designing the concept and prototyp...
Summary: A Minimum Viable Community is the minimum you need to start a Community of Practice Having a Minimum Viable Community makes it easier to get started with your Community as it gives you someth...
Setting up a Core Team
Summary: The Core Team is the group of people who are responsible for and fully invested in developing the community The Core Team is the driving force behind a Community of Practice Form a Core Team ...
Introduce yourself - Who are you and why are you interested ...
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Definition of Community of Practice
Summary Communities of practice (CoPs) are organized groups of people who collaborate regularly around a specific area to achieve predetermined goals. CoPs are essential because we live in a complex w...
Creating Reports about CoPs
Summary: A report on a Community of Practice is a statement of how well or how not so well the Community is doing. Reporting on the Community is important because it celebrates the success of Communi...
Making Content Social for Increased Engagement
Summary: Social content is content that is more likely to encourage people to interact with others about the content, and more likely to share that content with others. Creating content that is social...
Creating Valuable and Relevant Content for a CoP
Summary: Content for Communities of Practice can take many forms but its key characteristics are that it is relevant and of value to the members of the Community. Content is king for Communities of Pr...