User:Sshaked/Community of Knowledge

The Community of Knowledge is an independent German-speaking Internet platform dedicated to exchange over the subject of knowledge management. The Community of Knowledge contains a large number of articles, information on events, and publishes the Open Journal of Knowledge Management. Although the platform's main focus is on knowledge management in German-speaking countries, it offers much of its content in English as well.

History
The Community of Knowledge was founded in 2000 by m2-Consulting GmbH. In 2002 the Community of Knowledge ranked number two in the category up to 50 employees in the competition "Knowledge Manager of the year", organized by Commerzbank AG.

In April 2004 Steffen Doberstein became Editor-in-Chief and owned the platform in 2005. Until today Steffen Doberstein is Editor-in-Chief of the Community of Knowledge.

In April 2009 Pumacy Technologies AG became holder of the platform and organized the the Community's relaunch in September 2009. In 2011 Pumacy Technologies AG transferred the ownership of the Community of Knowledge to the current holder Intakt Umweltstiftung, a non-profit organisation.

Content and target audience
The Community of Knowledge's primary goal is to focus on making content, knowledge, and discussions related to knowledge management practices more open and available to interested parties such as service providers, researchers, and authors interested in making their work and research findings open access. Furthermore, it aims to promote exchange of knowledge and experience between experts and interested users.

In 2012 the Community of Knowledge carried out a survey among their users regarding their background and interests and published the results. The study found that the majority of readers defined themselves as practitioners (58%) or "interested users" (51%) while 32% defined themselves as researchers and 27.5% as service providers. Between the subjects under the broad scope of knowledge management, the majority of the participants expressed their interest in KM methods (86%), trends (58%), experience and lessons learned (55%), and technologies & products (47%).

Open Journal of Knowledge Management
The Community of Knowledge publishes the Open Journal of Knowledge Management two times a year. The journal is an open access publication on knowledge management. The first issue of a year focuses on a specific topic within the broader scope of knowledge management. The second issue presents the most popular articles of the past 12 months.