Knowledge Sharing: Methods, Meeting Places and Tools presents a selection of easy ways to help you have better access to the knowledge you need to do your work. We invite you to step outside your usual routine and engage in the cross-fertilization of ideas with your peers. The methods described... [read more]

A few tips on how to balance people and technology when enabling a knowledge network.

A free, powerful open source e-learning CMS, used to deliver training courses.

Online Group / Network / Community Checklist to help you in design of your network / community.

Networks are relational organizational forms that involve interconnected individuals, groups or organizations within a specific domain of knowledge and practice that interact socially and share knowledge with each other to achieve a common goal. Networks have the potential to further the goals of the National Collaborating Centres for Public Health... [read more]

This document helps you to:

1) Define norms and agreements in the context of online groups;
2) Explore different issues related to designing and implementing norms and agreements; 
3) Consider what norms and agreements might be useful for your group.

Our take is that you should start with two simple premises:

1) Knowledge is an important resource in achieving organisational (and community) objectives — what you know affects what you do.
2) Getting the most from your knowledge resources requires understanding their characteristics. You need to understand enough about the nature... [read more]

These tips are not unique to online, but have been found IMPORTANT in online facilitation!

This document focuses on the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) experiences in establishing and managing knowledge networks.

Ten tips for effective online facilitation.