Crossings

Summary on Crossings

Article summary for Week 4, Class 6.

Group: Bullet Express – Helen Ng Lam, Ian Blood Worth, Torrance Mayberry and Vijay Rao.

Audience: Academics, Knowledge Management Professionals
Abstract:

This article summarises Crossings, (Cranefield and Yoong -2009). It is a research paper for facilitating the embedding of Personal professional knowledge in an complex online community.


Description:

The researchers aim was to look at how communities of practice (COP) facilitate the embedding of Personal Professional Knowledge in the complex online world we live in today. The researchers undertook the research by interviewing 41 participants from 5 different online communities, online records for additional data and using Wiki so that the participants could feedback to the researchers. The researchers were able to determine that knowledge sharing was often facilitated by the participants by “Crossing” between the different spaces online, offline, visible and invisible, formal and informal and reflective and active mediums. As the participants moved through the different mediums they changed the information into knowledge by varying it and making it there own adapting it to fit the different functions of each medium. In addition to encouraging the development of Personal Professional Knowledge, the different mediums the study also provided a space where themes with mnemonic attributes were distributed and magnified.

Review:

The article was well written although I had you review my dictionary more than once while reading this article. I did however learn a few things while reviewing this article which is what knowledge management is all about.


References:
Cranefield, J and Yoong, P (2009) “Crossings”, online information review.