Knowledge Sharing and Communities of Practice
1. Describe the key components of a community of practice.
2. Outline the major phases in the life cycle of a community and the corresponding
information and knowledge management (KM) needs for each.
3. Define the major roles and responsibilities in a community of practice, with
particular emphasis on the integration of library and information professionals’
skills.
4. Characterize knowledge-sharing channels with respect to the dimensions of social
presence and media richness.
5. Analyze the flow of knowledge in a community of practice using appropriate tools
and techniques to identify enablers and obstacles to knowledge sharing
6. Discuss how communities can be linked to organizational memory in order to foster organizational learning and innovation.
