ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at ways for combining, transferring, and distributing knowledge. David Vance and Jim Eynon indicate that cultural, economic, and political realities for the knowledge sender may be vastly different from those of the receiver and thus, warrant must be more explicit in terms of its assumptions. Knowledge distribution involves sending knowledge internally and externally to those who could benefit from the use and application of the knowledge. Online communities which share a common interest are ways of sharing and distributing knowledge. The idea of combining knowledge is to take existing knowledge and augment it in a new way or merge it with other knowledge to create new knowledge. Even though informal communication may be used for transferring knowledge, it may be useful to convert these informal communications of knowledge into formalized knowledge via the knowledge repository.
