Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators: Vol. 2 - contains links to authors and a full introductory chapter - deals with distributed CoPs
Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators: Vol. 1 - contains links to authors and a full introductory chapter - deals with co-located CoPs
L. Meyers, and M. Saxton. Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators, 2, chapter 10, Information Age Publishing, Charlotte, NC, (2008)