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Going Virtual: Distributed Communities of Practice contributes to the understanding of how more subtle kinds of knowledge can be managed in a distributed international environment. It describes work in the field of knowledge management, with a specific focus on the management of knowledge which cannot be managed by the normal capture-codify-store approach and provides answers to the questions of what is the nature of the more subtle kind of knowledge and how can it be managed in the distributed environment?

About the Author

After 11 years teaching Modern Languages, Paul Hildreth went back to university, in York, UK, to “convert” to IT. Having completed his MSc, he stayed on to do a DPhil exploring the field of Knowledge Management. This work convinced him that Knowledge Management is not about technology but about people and led him to explore the emerging and fascinating field of Communities of Practice. Recognizing the pressures imposed on organizations by globalization, he concentrated on researching how Communities of Practice can function in a distributed international environment. The work produced a number of well-received journal and conference papers.

Having completed his DPhil, Paul now runs his own independent Knowledge Management and computer consultancies.