Making MAKCi

• Published in: VINE 2010, Vol.40 (1), p.39-61
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Subjects: Information networks; Internet; Knowledge management; Worldwide web
• ISSN: 0305-5728
• DOI: 10.1108/03055721011024919

Purpose Following a thirdgeneration knowledge management KM approach, this article aims to report on a threeyear series of practitioners' experiences engaged in a consensusbuilding exercise known as the MAKCi exercise. Designmethodologyapproach Designed to illustrate a realworld KM case, this research work used participant observation, online interactions and interviews as methodological tools to explore how knowledge management as a discipline has benefited from the use of Web 2.0 technology. Findings The first part of the article depicts the Most Admired Knowledge City MAKCi exercise as a research and learning space networked and tightly connected online by common interests of participants. The second part of the article brings further understanding on how networked learning and knowledge creation has been made possible by the use of Web 2.0 tools. It is advanced that higher levels of knowledge cocreation at a global scale can take the shape of networks of practice NoPs in knowledgebased development contexts such as the one explored for the MAKCi exercise. Research limitationsimplications The research is limited to a threeyear recording of practitioners' experiences. Originalityvalue Knowledgebased social systems, such as networks of practice NoPs are identified as emerging social configurations fostering knowledgeintensive networked learning. NoPs clearly depend on collaboration within networks. Thus, the paper advances that some emerging models of knowledgeintensive networks such as NoPs are natural KM vehicles to foster and promote intensive tacit knowledge conversion into explicit scholarly knowledge regardless of geographical location, becoming highly relevant to knowledgebased development KBD practitioners.