SEVEN PRINCIPLES FOR CULTIVATION COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE

We can find seven supports of a professional Community of practice, I will pass directly to resume those attending the principal characteristics of them.

It’s important to take an account the design. It will be improving in the way that members of it want, creating websites, forums… growing up in the most famous or interesting topics.

The second support is the view that others and the members have about the community. It’s important be objective, open minded with the others points of view but respect it and try to learn what others can teach you. Small communities normally are helped by the bigger, this is normal and good, because this type of knowledge is universal and good for everybody.

There are differents levels of implication in the community. Creatives and administrators, the high level and with more fuctions on it; more active members and secondary members: they are more or less 95 per cent of the members and a lot of them don’t write normally, only take information or write ideas or studies with different values.

The topics in a community can be prepared in private or public spaces. Normally when one of them is good finish in public spaces where everybody can show their opinion and make it more useful.

The ambient in a community is one of the most important support because when you feel secure and convince u can give your opinion and other members will take an account seriously is when members will work and express all they want making more productive the site for example.

The seventh support and also important is the steady pace, and this depends on when do you publish new topics in the community, for example one blog like this will have more visits when you publish something and announce it on favebook or twiter than 3 days later.