Different role and responsibility of community of practice...

of Practice require a number of key roles to be filled. These need not necessarily be a single individual
working full time. They are revolving roles much like everyone taking turn at being a scribe at business
meetings.

Champion: The Champion ensures support at the highest level, communicates the purpose, promotes
the community and insures impact.

Facilitators: The role of the Facilitator is the most demanding role. They are responsible for clarifying
communications and making sure that everyone participates and that dissident views are heard and
understood

Practice Leader: The Practice Leader is the acknowledged leader of the CoP theme. The leader provides
thought leadership for the practice or strategic service, validates innovations and best practices and
promotes adherence to them. He or she identifies emerging patterns and trends in CoP activities and
knowledge base as well as in other areas that may impact the practice

Membership Manager: The Membership Manager deals with registration and ongoing membership
directory.

Discussion Moderator: Much like a radio/TV show host, the Discussion Moderator serves as
conversation manager who helps keep discussions focused, injects new topics and provocative points of
view when discussion lags, and seeds discussion with appropriate content. Moderators must often be
critical in order to ensure value generation.

Knowledge Editor: The Knowledge Editor collects, sanitizes and synthesizes content created, and
provides a value-added link for the content produced.

Knowledge Librarian: The Knowledge Librarian is the community’s taxonomist and is responsible for
organizing and managing the collection of knowledge objects generated by the community.

Knowledge Archivist: The Knowledge Archivist maintains and organizes content generated by
participants over time.

Usage Analyst: The Usage Analyst studies data on participants’ behaviour within the community and
makes recommendations to the Moderator
Knowledge Broker: The Knowledge Broker is someone who can join up with a number of different
communities in order to identify commonalities and redundancies, creates synergy, forms alliance and
feed in to organizational memory and learning (e.g. map of intellectual asses, expertise directory, Cop
best practices and lessons learned).

There are four basic types of communities:

Helping Communities. provide a forum for community members to help each other with everyday work
needs.

Best Practice Communities. develop and disseminate best practices, guidelines, and strategies for their
members' use.

Knowledge Stewarding Communities. ...

Innovation Communities.

What is community of practice