Community of practice

Consider the concept of a “community of practice.” How can such a community offer opportunities for learning?

            This type of community can offer many types of opportunities for learning. First of all, discussion boards and other types of websites can help with networking and business matters, learning advice from others who have experienced things hands-on. This community as allows for growth in social matters, school, and other areas of life outside of the work field. The internet and the ability to form blog posts, discussion boards, group instant messaging, have made this concept and type of community that much easier to become a part of on an everyday basis. Obviously getting together in groups or business meetings are still very helpful and valuable to people today but the internet has just added that easiness factor and therefore we see many more people participating in putting in their thoughts and experiences for others to read and learn from. I know I personally have learned things whether it comes to ideas on paper topics, job hunting advice or even cooking help online by searching and finding posts with peoples own personal answers.