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Developing the Action Plan for a Community of Practice
Summary: The 30-60-90-Day Action Planning Framework is an approach that enables you to plan your community activities over the short and medium term, that is, over the next 30, 60, and 90 days. Dividi...
Building a Community through CoP Sprints
Summary: Building community through a series of Sprints is an iterative approach whereby you test a concept, learn from the results of that experiment, and try again When it comes to building communi...
Designing a Theory of Change for a Community of Practice
Summary: The Theory of Change describes the desired transformative impact of a Community of Practice and the vision for how this change is expected to happen. Having a Theory of Change helps a Communi...
Identifying the Shared Value of a Community
Summary: Shared Value is alignment of value that is provided by the Community to its members, and the value of the Community to the organization that hosts it. For a Community of Practice to be succes...
Understanding Member Needs
Summary: Communities of Practice are ultimately about their members, and members have varying needs or reasons why they are joining a given Community. To build a successful Community of Practice, you ...
Conducting a Stakeholder Analysis
Summary: A Stakeholder Analysis is the process of identifying people who are involved with or have influence on or are affected by your community of practice. A Stakeholder Analysis is important to be...
Conducting an Ecosystem Analysis
Summary: A Community Ecosystem is the set of groups and initiatives that are interconnected with your Community of Practice’s domain. Conducting an analysis of your Community’s Ecosystem will enable ...
Making a Business Case for a Community of Practice
Summary A Business Case is a document that sets out the future objectives of a Community of Practice (CoP), the broad strategies for achieving them, and the resources and funding needed. The most impo...
Community Lifecycle
Summary: There are five main stages in the community lifecycle: ideation, initiation, growth, maturity, and bifurcation/decline. Communities are dynamic and require different activities at different s...
A Framework for Communities of Practice: Purpose-People-Prac...
Summary: The three elements of the Community of Practice Framework are: purpose, people, and practice. These elements are not static; they change over time. Every Community of Practice needs to know w...
Roles in a Community of Practice
Summary There are many different roles in a Community of Practice (CoP) including: Community Leader, Community Manager, Community Sponsor, Technical Expert, Knowledge Management Advisor, Communicatio...
Sense of Community
Summary: The Sense of Community has four components: membership, influence, fulfillment of needs, and emotional connection. The Sense of Community is a key characteristic of successful communities, su...