Posted by Jefferey Bridges on September 24, 2002 at 04:27:45:

In Reply to: Good example of community of practice posted by Karen on September 24, 2002 at 03:28:46:

It will help if you can specify which 'modern technologies' in your perspective created 'good' communities. And how do you correlate the two.

Many communities that created buzz for spending millions of dollars in technologies by some of the leading vendors and consultants have either evaporated or have become a part of the cyber-dust. Many such case studies are documented in many of the KM best sellers starting from Davenport's Working Knowledge and beyond. For examples, the story of over-hyped Andersen's KnowledgeXchange in this book and elsewhere.

The suggestion is not that conventional and modern technologies can often help create interesting community experience. Rather, getting hung up too much on the 'modern-ness' (or lack thereof) of technologies should not become a constraint in getting the community effort off the ground. One may start small with simple technologies, improvise and experiment, and then scale the community with the help of advanced technologies - one's that meet the eye and those that are not visible but play vital role in ensuring that the 'intelligent' platform remains up and running to create a vital community.

Jefferey Bridges

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