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  Communities of practice usually involve multiple levels of participation. Because involvement can produce learning in multiple ways and the domain has different levels of relevance to different people, the boundaries of a community of practice are more flexible than those of organizational units or teams. Typical categories of membership and participation include: Core group: a relatively small group of people whose passion and engagement energize and nurture the community Active participants: members who are recognized as practitioners and define the community (though they may not be of one mind as to what the community is about) Occasional participants: members who only participate when the topic is of special interest, when they have some...