The Role of Community Champions in Fostering a Successful Community of Practice
Communities of Practice are collaborative networks (can be both formal or informal) depending on to foster sharing of ideas and knowledge outside the structured learning environment.
Communities are always developed around a certain skill,
profession or learning purpose. In fact, a shared identity is the glue that
binds the members of a Community together (Wenger, 1998).
Community champions play a key role in fostering successful
communities. Champions are recruited from the practice, so they are deeply aligned
to the purpose of the specific community and are best positioned to connect members
and the business to better serve the clients. They work as the bridge between
the business and the knowledge management. Champions are instrumental in ensuring that
the business goals and the associated knowledge programs of the community are
well-defined and met.
Listed below are the ground level responsibilities of a smart community champion:
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Follow the community and relevant hashtags to
surface the community activity to the intended audience.
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Regularly seeds and monitor the discussions on
community feed.
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Initiates, support roll-out and facilitates
community activities aligned to the business goal.
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Monitor and provide input to ensure community
content relevancy.
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Promote community activity, campaigns, and resources
across their personal network for better visibility.
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Monitor content metrics to determine community
health and suggest appropriate actions to update, retire or refresh the
community.
The list above is not exhaustive and varies with the changing business priorities. However, they define the basic guidelines for any champion role to moderate an impactful and successful community.
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