Talking to people from MDF , a training and consultancy firm, we had to conclude that there are few practical examples of communities of practice in a development context, so I'll try and search harder (haven't even started the whole km4dev journal for instance). I'm not sure if there are no examples, but there may not be many well-described cases of how communities of practice were intentionally nurtured and leveraged for enhanced knowledge sharing and innovation for development. One example of a community of practice is the KM4dev community and I had the honour to to talk to Lucy Lamoureux, the coordinator, somewhere last year, about the same time of the publishment of an official interview with her in the km4dev journal She describes the Km4dev community as a group of development practitioners working in knowledge management and knowledge sharing who ask for advice and receive quick responses from peers.

Forrester, 2006) Community users visit nine times more often than non-community users (McKInsey, 2000) Community users have four times as many page views as non-community users (McKInsey, 2000) 56% percent of online community members log in once a day or more (Annenberg, 2007) Customers report good experiences in forums more than twice as often as they do via calls or mail. (Jupiter, Jupiter, 2006) I also pulled together some fine examples of successful online communities used for pure marketing purposes: 1. Social Media Group About SMG Clients Media 2008 Services The ROI of Communities - Part II by Maggie Fox | November 23rd, 2007 | Category: education Earlier this week I did some prep for a roundtable on the ROI of Communities at a conference held by the Canadian Marketing Association, and came across the most wonderful list of statistics, courtesy of Bill Johnston , and compiled by Joe Cothrel .

Here is an example of a story (personal experience, an anecdote): I ran my first anecdote circle in 2000 while working for IBM. She said: “Just be comfortable with any silences and when someone provides an opinion ask for an example.” You will surprised to find that a story which you thought, for example, was about persistence, comes across to More people will be looking for jobs this year. Sadly unemployment is rising.

2000). For example, if hundreds of friends are connected to each other only when you serve as the bridge connecting them, then your centrality is high. For example, a person who controls information flows is more important than one who may have more friends in the network. good example of this is in the explanatory research conducted by Kumar, Novak and Tomkins (2006). Boxes And Arrows : The Design Behind the Design Register or Log In Search Stories Ideas Forums People Events Jobs About February Issue, 2009

An additional view on the factors in the process of growing and maintaining a relationship is provided by Bonnie Nardi (2005), who draws on the research on instant messaging and face-to-face communication (Nardi, Whittaker, & Bradner, 2000; Nardi et al., KM bloggers talk about their experiences of connecting to others in terms of sharing spaces : Dave refers to getting to know others in a way similar to how it works in a “common room in a university”, Brett talks about blogging as casual conversations at a water-cooler, Ton talks about “shared spaces” online,

In brief, theyre groups of people informally bound together by shared expertise and passion for a joint enterprise � engineers engaged in deep-water drilling, for example, consultants who specialize in strategic marketing, or frontline managers in charge of check processing at a large commercial bank. Below is a summary of their characteristics. Whats the purpose? Who belongs? What holds it together? How long does it last? Community of practice To develop members capabilities; to build and exchange knowledge Members who select themselves

At one point (late nineties/early 2000's), Microsoft sometimes used the term "directed collaboration" in this regard while IBM talked about contextual collaboration as the "fuzzy front-end" of process-centric work. If we adopt a more expansive definition of social software, then when you look at collaboration over the past 20 years, there have been other examples of "social software" - including tools such as email and groupware. A partial list of points-to-ponder: Enterprise 2.0

Orkut, for example, was launched in the United States with an English-only interface, but Portuguese-speaking Brazilians quickly became the dominant user group (Kopytoff, 2004). While SixDegrees attracted millions of users, it failed to become a sustainable business and, in 2000, the service closed. Likewise, when the Swedish web community LunarStorm refashioned itself as an SNS in 2000, it contained JCMC Home Submit Issues Author Index Editors About JCMC boyd, d. m., &

If you are curious about the power of the theming system, you can view a few examples at WannaNetwork , GrungePress , and Flokka . Closing I hope this tutorial has been successful in introducing you to BuddyPress and has opened up an opportunity for you to start your own social network site. Hopefully it is more stable now. ( Reply ) Paul Morales March 31st Wow, that’s pretty cool for a wordpress site ( Reply ) Andrea_R April 1st Actually,

Embeddable media is critical for spreadability and distribution – YouTube is a clear example of content that is watched 30% or more of the time “off site”… through an embed on Facebook, blogs and so on. In November 2000 they opened up the API and by 2006 had 5 billion API calls a month. Episode 3 focusses on monetizing APIs and looking at revenue streams from widgets. Companies that open their business databases and stream that data out, can have an army of hundreds of thousands (mostly) unpaid developers creating Facebook apps, iPhone apps and blog widgets