They are :  Meeting places for continuing professional development  Social network of members - organized by making use of an online meeting place  Maintains an adequate group culture and  Involved in appropriate information processes to develop and exploit a certain knowledge domain. Online knowledge communities are used for continuing professional development. From an organizational perspective  They help feed quality back into the organization  Drive organization credibility  Speed knowledge transfer and knowledge utilization

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Tobias Mueller-prothmann, Carsten Siedentopf(2003)- DESIGNING ONLINE KNOWLEDGE COMMUNITIES: DEVELOPING A USABILITY EVALUATION CRITERIA CATALOGUE  Communities develop and continuously evolve. Only the software that supports them is designed  It leads to a continuous process of  (re-) planning  (re-) designing  (re-) implementing and  (re-) evaluating Jos Cludio Cyrineu Terra - TWELVE LESSONS TO DEVELOP AND SUSTAIN ONLINE KNOWLEDGE COMMUNITIES  Technology plays only a secondary role in the fostering of online communities  Key lessons in implementing OKC are related to issues of  Leadership  Focus  Motivation  Identity, etc that require detailed attention to peoples perceptions and behavior

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