We woud like to highligh to you that the Virtual Communities Project reached an important milestone this week with the launch of seven new PMI communities of practice.

 

For a limited time, all PMI members will automatically have complimentary access to all the currently-launched communities of practice.

 

The Virtual Community Project (VCP) is an opportunity created by PMI volunteers and supported by the PMI Board of Directors to transition PMI's current virtual communities - specific interest groups (SIGs) and colleges - to communities of practice by the end of 2010.

 

Communities of practice are knowledge-driven sites where practitioners can connect through blogs, wikis, discussion boards, shared document areas and opinion polls.

The communities of practice now available include:

            ·         Agile (actual launch date 24 July)
            ·         Consulting
            ·         International Development
            ·         Organizational Project Management)
            ·         Project Human Resource Management)
            ·         Retail
            ·         Utility

 

PMI will continue to transition current SIGs and colleges into communities of practice over the coming months, as well as creating newly-formed communities.

 

The organization will evaluate customer satisfaction with the limited-time access during the first quarter of 2010.

 

Pages on both the public-facing pages of PMI.org and the "My PMI" member section have been updated to allow members easy access to the communities of practice.

 

To read more about the communities of practice, click on the following link. 

 

By engaging with a global virtual community, PMI members will be able to share ideas and insight, and benefit from other practitioners' advice and experience.

 

 

Please note:

In order to access the communities of practice, you need to be a PMI member with a PMI.org username and password.

 

 

Q: How can PMI members access the community of practice websites?

 

·   Log in to PMI.org with your PMI.org username and password

·   If you are not currently a registered user on PMI.org, click on the link "New User? Register Now! in the upper left corner of the home page.

·    Click on the new "Communities" section

·    Follow the links to the communities of practice

·    Click on the name of the community you wish to access