[Editor's note: This Thursday (July 15) our team will be hosting a webinar on using Bloomfire for effective communities of practice. He is responsible for building educational content, enabling learning, and investigating, specifying and introducing new tools and methods of formal and social learning. quickly found the Internet to be the best and often only source for learning about and how to use the constant stream of new tools that I was exposed to end expected to use. ??Like The output of most of my work is web-based. Limited spots. MORE >>

The question on Quora is expanded to ask: When launching an internal community platform, it’s often quite tempting to get lost in the technology implementation. Now it’s definitely quite important to provide an attractive first release of collabware, but what role does community management play in making the roll out effective? Or is community management secondary to the software release? Diverse contributors attracted to the community to both get involved and build on the goals of the community. MORE >>

Over the past 6 weeks, the Foundations of communities of practice workshop was held in CP-square (CP2). For people that are new to the concept of Communities of Practice, the workshop is an introduction. The workshop (6 weeks) has several activities like weekly calls for the whole group and several forms of discussion in the online environment. Quick text questions are very much needed to instantly support participants who have questions. Video adds up an amazing amount to the feeling of connectedness. MORE >>

They are a combination of concepts and methods that build knowledge and bring learning into day to day activities and workflow. Build a performance support system. Build a community of Practice. Build a Community of Practice. I’m a fan of Communities of Practice (CoP).  They are environments (usually supported by technology) for groups of people with a common mission or interest to communicate, share learn and build knowledge needed to more effectively solve problems and accomplish work.  MORE >>

Using Bloomfire for Effective Communities of Practice. In the fast-paced 21st century, communities of practice will play a bigger and bigger role in training your employees and keeping your organization in front of competitors. Here’s what you’ll walk away with: You’ll understand how communities of practice can boost sales and cut costs. You’ll learn the key ingredients for nurturing a healthy community of practice. Limited spots. Learn how you can too. What is Bloomfire? MORE >>