3 Great Resources for Starting a Guild or Community of Practice

Here’s what I read and what I learned & took from each source

Starting a Guild or Community of Practice needs preparation, especially if you are doing it the first time (as I am).

Guide to Communities of Practice by Luis Gonçalves

Communities of Practice: Everything You Need To Know

This guide was the most helpful one for me. I took a lot from it and created a summary for our company’s wiki. Especially the questions were helpful: I went through them with a co-worker and we discussed what we would like to do. Here are the questions we answered:

• What specific topics does the community want to address?
• How are these topics relevant to the organization?
• What kind of influence will the community have on the organization?
• What are the benefits and obligations of each membership?
• How will it help members develop professionally? Whatever the benefits are, they need to be communicated…