How to Create a knowledge Community

Collaborating

It is always advice that we should have a knowledge community with similar professionals so that we can share our knowledge with each other. It will help us to update with latest trends. 

Create a knowledge Community 

A Technical Writer should create a Knowledge Community. You may ask, how and why we need a Knowledge Community? As a Technical Writer, sometimes it is difficult to get all information you need. Whom you need to contact, where do you look. How can you decide if you can gather knowledge verbally face-to-face or in meetings, by sending emails, or by checking past documentation?

The important to creating a Knowledge Community is through collaboration. Collaboration will help you to create plans, meet others, become more innovative, share information, learn, and more.

Creating Plans

This helps us to be more organized and efficient. Collaborate in order to set timelines, to define scopes for projects, to maintain accuracy, to set up contingency plans, to define marketing strategies, and most importantly to define policies and procedures.

Meeting with Others

This helps us to meet others with whom we can share our concerns, status, and information. Also help us to meet with others whom we thought we never needed. Collaborate to meet others with face-to-face or catching your knowledge holders whenever and wherever you can. Collaborating and working with colleagues help us to meet with SMEs and stakeholders, etc. to gather any new and necessary information.

Becoming More Innovative

This helps us to be more creative in developing our content as well as developing new ideas. Collaborate and use your interpersonal skills to gather information to become more innovative. Collaborate with stakeholders who have an interest in the project. Use your excellent communication skills to understand your stakeholder’s requirement and create unique content, specifications, methodologies, processes, etc.

Sharing information

This helps us to work better as a team. Collaborate with others to exchange of knowledge. If We do more collaboration and more information sharing, then we will become more knowledgeable. This will lead to faster problem solving, as well as new opportunities, insights, visions, etc.

Learning

This help us to become more knowledgeable and proficient in gathering and sharing of information. Working in a group is always better than working individually. Collaborate and use your technical skill to understand the complex technical information. Learning leads to more experience and positive outcomes.

Creating a Knowledge Community

Collaborating helps us to create a center or a core of communication that can be used to gather information. It will allow us to bring colleagues together to share and learn, to be more confident and skilled, to define data, to improve decision making, to share experiences, and to improve communication, etc. This Knowledge Community can be created internally or internationally.