Delivering Knowledge for Health

Support for Communities of Practice andSupport for Communities of Practice andCommunity Builder Toolkit Community Builder Toolkit

Annette Thain

Delivering Knowledge for Health

Support for networks and communities

• People

• Technology

Delivering Knowledge for Health

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Delivering Knowledge for Health

Aim and purposeAim 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

Delivering Knowledge for Health

What your site could look like

Delivering Knowledge for Health

Tour of homepageTour of homepage

Search box

Collaborative tools - optional

Widgets – boxes of functionality managed by the administrators of the website

Log in with NHS Athens username

Library of community’s resources

Navigation

Delivering Knowledge for Health

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Use your Athens – if you do not have one you can register here.

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3. Join the community

•Membership of MKN

•RSS alerts ( see help for more info)

•Contribute to discussions

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.

Benefits of joining:-

How to join

Delivering Knowledge for Health

How to collaborate and share

WikiA 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

DiscussionsQuestion and answer opportunities, sharing of experiences, lessons learnt

BlogsAn online journal created by a particular person or team. The owner posts messages and allows others to add their own comments.

Adding resourcesUpload documents, share weblinks, associate published resources from The Knowledge Network website (formerly e-Library)