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Support communities and projects in setting up and managing their websites, fostering collaboration, promoting dialogue, sharing best practices, and managing knowledge effectively. Tour the homepage, register with NHS Athens, access collaborative tools, search resources, and engage in discussions. Join the community to benefit from wikis, discussions, blogs, and resource sharing.
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Support for Communities of Practice andCommunity Builder Toolkit Annette Thain
Support for networks and communities • People • Technology
Community Builder Toolkit:example of a tool for communities of practice
Aim and purpose • Enable communities and projects set up and manage their own websites or learning environments • Encourage collaborative working • Promote dialogue and discussions • Sharing examples of practice • Help communities to manage both published and local and tacit knowledge
Tour of homepage Log in with NHS Athens username Collaborative tools - optional Search box Library of community’s resources Navigation Widgets – boxes of functionality managed by the administrators of the website
1 2 Use your Athens – if you do not have one you can register here. 3. Join the community 4. If you have not already accepted Terms and Conditions you will have to do this by going to your profile then return to website to join. • Membership of MKN • RSS alerts ( see help for more info) • Contribute to discussions How to join Benefits of joining:-
Wiki A piece of software which enables users to create, edit and link webpages. A wiki website is usually created collaboratively and allows members of the creating community to edit its content. Examples include Wikipedia Discussions Question and answer opportunities, sharing of experiences, lessons learnt Blogs An online journal created by a particular person or team. The owner posts messages and allows others to add their own comments. Adding resources Upload documents, share weblinks, associate published resources from The Knowledge Network website (formerly e-Library) How to collaborate and share