At the BIS 4410 seminar on SN and CoP, the discussion centred around the similarities and differences between the 2 concepts, their examples, and their impact on knowledge management. One point I noted is the fact that when people say social networks nowadays, they are talking about online communities like MySpace and Facebook and not just ordinary network of people connected by being members of the same geographic community, family or social club. There was also a discussion on the difference between SN and CoP which was basically given as the purpose for setting up each of them. While CoPs are more domain or business oriented, SNs are more social and involve a larger number of participants and capabilities. However the 2 concepts can act as useful platforms for knowledge creation and sharing. Another impact is that of Technology on the way we live such that traditional means of socialising are giving way to technology-enabled platform that enable socialisation amongst people from very diverse geographic, political and cultural backgrounds.
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I agree very much with the need to separate the ideas about SNs and CoPs from the technologies that might support them in a changing world where social networks and communities are separated geographically and may need to carry out asynchronous conversations.
The question is what do SNs and CoPs have to do with KM? If you can answer that, then you can look at what the tools do to support the KM-related attributes.
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