%0 Book Section %1 KNICOP_22 %A Callahan, Shawn %B Knowledge Networks: Innovation through Communities of Practice %C Hershey, PA %D 2004 %E Hildreth, Paul %E Kimble, Chris %I IGI Global %K Case_Study CoP Community_Building Community_of_Practice Core_Team Face-to-Face IT_Platform Internet-Based_Technologies KM Knowledge_Management Meetings Online_Community Public_Sector Social_Learning Social_Networks Trust %P 267--281 %T Cultivating a Public Sector Knowledge Management Community of Practice %U http://www.chris-kimble.com/KNICOP/Chapters/Chapter_22.html %X ActKM is a Community of Practice for people interested in public sector Knowledge Management. Having begun in 1998, the community now numbers more than 550 members and is nurtured and maintained predominantly, but not exclusively, on-line. Utilising the Cynefin sense-making framework (Snowden, 2002a), this chapter analyses the ActKM community and provides a practical account of its history, purpose, guiding principles, goals, characteristics and dynamics. The chapter concludes with a summary of the lessons learnt from the ActKM experience that others might find useful in cultivating a vibrant Community of Practice of this type. %& 22

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