Telecom Computer Security Databases Handheld Devices Tech. Hi all Good points in this thread with import to document management. I have not yet read the discussion document but wanted to make one brief point stemming from Martyn's posting. While I agree with just about everything he writes re the nature of documents, I take issue about one key point - the nature of community.
Communities do exist outside the universe of a specific publication.
Our village newsletter is a publication which spins out of it. The implications for KM and document management are that business documents are created for a specific purpose, spinning out of the work of the community of practice. Sometimes they are published specifically to form, appeal to and manipulate communities. In creating documents we need to be aware of this distinctly different purposes, because communities do exist, by default or design.