Selected Resources on Communities of Practice
Web sites:
Bibliography on communities of practice
produced by CPsquare and com-prac
http://cofpractice-biblio.wikispaces.com
Communities of Practice
The Web's first site dedicated to communities of practice.
http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/cop/index.shtml
Communities of Practice
on infed, the informal education homepage
© Mark K. Smith. First published January 2003
http://www.infed.org/biblio/communities_of_practice.htm
Communities of Practice Resources
© Fred Nickols 2000
http://home.att.net/~discon/KM/CoPs.htm
CPsquare
The community of practice on communities of practice.
http://www.cpsquare.com
Etienne Wenger
Communities of practice
http://www.ewenger.com/theory/index.htm
Knowledge Board, Your Global Community
European Commission
Interview with Etienne Wenger on Communities of Practice
http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=458
Online Forum on Communities of Practice
An online space for practitioners' conversations on how to build and support Communities of Practice.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/com-prac/
Articles/Books:
Allee, V. (2000). Knowledge networks and communities of practice. OD Practitioner, 32(4).
NCDDR. (2005). Communities of Practice: A Strategy for Sharing and Building Knowledge. FOCUS: Technical Brief Number 11. Austin, TX: SEDL. Retrieved July 14, 2008 from http://www.ncddr.org/kt/products/focus/focus11/
Wenger, E. (1998). Communities of practice: Learning as a social system. The Systems Thinker, 9(5). Retrieved July 14, 2008, from http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/cop/lss.shtml
Wenger, E. (1998). Communities of practice: Learning, meaning, and identity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Wenger, E. (2004). Knowledge management as a doughnut: Shaping your knowledge strategy through communities of practice. Ivey Business Journal (January/February). Retrieved July 14, 2008, from http://www.iveybusinessjournal.com/article.asp?intArticle_id=465
Wenger, E., McDermott, R., & Snyder, W. M. (2002). Cultivating communities of practice: A guide to managing knowledge. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
Wenger, E., McDermott, R., & Snyder, W. M. (2002). Seven principles for cultivating communities of practice. Harvard Business School Working Knowledge e-mail newsletter (March 25, 2002). Retrieved July 14, 2008, from http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/2855.html
Adapted from NCDDR's FOCUS: Technical Brief Number 11 Communities of Practice: A Strategy for Sharing and Building Knowledge
