Seven Principles For Cultivating Communities Of Practice

While this Harvard Business School article addresses "communities of practice", many of the lessons are applicable to physical community-building.

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March 29, 2002, 12:00 PM PST

By Chris Steins @planetizen

Although communities of practice develop organically, a carefully crafted design can drive their evolution. In this excerpt from a new book, the authors detail seven design principles. The payoff? Knowledge management that works... These design principles are not recipes, but rather embody our understanding of how elements of design work together. They reveal the thinking behind a design. Making design principles explicit makes it possible to be more flexible and improvisational."

Thanks to Tom Collins

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Tuesday, March 26, 2002 in Harvard University

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