1. Acquisition Community Connection (ACC) Small Business Community of Practice (CoP) https://acc.dau.mil/smallbusiness https://acc.dau.mil/smallbusiness

2. Small Business Community of Practice Introduction  What is the Acquisition Community Connection (ACC)? – Virtual collaborative workspace/environment – Forum for practitioners to interact – Assists in top-down communication by providing multiple avenues and direct methods for disseminating information and Community sustainment  ACC Operations – Management – Top Level sponsorship Sponsorship may be shared by more than one office as communities span multiple organizations – Recognized need for re-engaging the community for added value – Critical issues or resources to support? – ACC Support Team provides operations infrastructure, guidelines, tech support and direct community support – Operating procedures – communities are as valuable as the information they contain – User Info and Training Tutorials / Ease of data management

3. Small Business Community of Practice Introduction  Rules of Engagement – Contributions (No FOUO) – Unclassified only – Leaders, content editors, SME are responsible for managing the content – Copyrighted material must have written permission from author/owner of information – DO – Suggest content useful to practitioners Engage in discussions Interact with peers – DO NOT – Market commercial items Promote personal agendas Inappropriately use email for spamming purposes  Membership – Department of Defense and other government agencies are allowed automatically as long as they join up using their organizational email address – Participation is free/voluntary – casual surfers of the internet, members of the site, SME, Leaders and champions – Community administrator/editor can control who has access to his/her space, by adding people as community members and putting them into appropriate groups with different rights  Community shortcut – Make a favorite: https://acc.dau.mil/smallbusinesshttps://acc.dau.mil/smallbusiness

4. SB CoP Health Assessment

5. Larry Floyd Phone: (703) 805-4876 E-Mail: lawrence.floyd@dau.millawrence.floyd@dau.mil Jennifer Zearley Phone: (703) 805-4602 E-Mail: jennifer.zearley@dau.miljennifer.zearley@dau.mil ACC Chief Editors E-Mail: acc@dau.milacc@dau.mil DAU’s Knowledge Management Team for Contracting

6. Small Business Community of Practice Introduction Demonstration of SB CoP’s Features and Content