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33 Articles match "2005","CoP"
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Thursday, January 7, 2010
This “COP” was ‘built’ from people who have relevant knowledge, which they were sharing disregard the fact that they may represent or have opposite interests, the manner of the dialog was professional, focused, open and the most important: I saw how they were all pleased when the agreed together on a mode of operation which was new knowledge that they created together. when you blogger friends are asking tough questio… Cloned Meat Categories: Executives as Storytellers · Stories of Knowledge Tagged: Africa , Awassa ,
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Monday, October 12, 2009
When properly supported by the right social, knowledge and tecnology infrastructures, it’s easy to find it; you just go to the community’s online home, search their knowledge base, and find the needed piece of content or contact with experienced members. Practices worth replicating can travel as fast as posting a video on the CoP poratl. We are here to help you discover tha. We design, facilitate and coach CoP projects of all size, from small-scale pilots to develop corporate-wide strategy for value-creation with communities of practice. Contact Us CommunityIntelligence Ltd. Who We Are What Drives Us What We Are Known For Client Services Communities of Practice Leadership Education Beyond Social Media Collaboration Campus Tracks of Transformation Learning from the Future Systemic Organisational Constellation Methods Knowledge Ecology U Process Contemplative Practices World Café Communities of Practice Wisdom Council Art of Hosting Learning Expedition Our Ecosystem
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
This actually differs them from the more passive configuration of communities , however when the word community is used I will refer to communities of practice (CoPs). Multimemberships does not entail brokering, but boundary spanning ( Levina and Vaast , 2005). Tim on Etienne (Part I: Learning in Practice) This post constitutes the first delicate steps in preparing myself to teach the Knowledge Management 2009 course at the University of Amsterdam. The parts are based on Wenger ’s (1998) seminal work on communities of practice.
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Tuesday, December 6, 2005
In the km4dev journal there was an article by Kim Henderson on the knowledge sharing approach of UNDP based on CoPs or knowledge networks. The first CoPs were established in 1999 in some of the priority thematic areas of UNDP, currently there are 20 knowledge networks with between 300-2300 members each, corresponding to the strategic goals. CoPs have improved connections between the headquarters and the field, between country offices, Members are primarily UNDP staff, though some are open to external participants. The networks serve for sharing experiences and good practices,
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Saturday, November 26, 2005
The last onion: how might national cultural dimensions influence the functioning of a CoP in that country? So in CoPs in countries with high uncertainty avoidance (Guatamala, Uruguay, Portugal, Greece, France, Belgium, etc) it may be more difficult (in general, in can imagine there are professional sub-cultures!) Hence, CoPs in these countries may tend to go for more formalisation than in countries with low uncertainty avoidance where CoPs may remain more informal and Hofstede lists countries with a high uncertainty avoidance and explains that in these countries it might be harder for people with opposing convictions to be friends.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2005
When I met Marc Coenders on Tuesday, who has written a book about communities of practice and has extensive experiences with CoPs in the Netherlands, I decided to pilot my first interview (to be honest I had carried my camera two times before without daring to ask the interviewees for an interview..). was interested to know more about the dynamics of CoPs within the context of the Dutch culture, as I just realized that each national culture may bring its own specific dynamics to the art of cultivating CoPs, which may be more important to realize and learn to work with than generalizing
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Monday, December 12, 2005
In the appendices, the five cases are summarised: they vary from corporate CoPs (SNV), to a inter-organisational CoP of civil society organisations (IMAC), to a CoP of M&E professionals. At SNV a team works to promote the CoP, which is key to the success, and work programmes can become very ambitious. IMAC and PACT found that the existence of a webpage that recorded In Intrac Praxis Note 16 (available in English and Spanish), Brenda Bucheli and Gabriela Romo describe some of the outcomes of a workshop on communities of practice held in Mexico at the beginning of this year.
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Monday, December 12, 2005
She recalls an organisation where everyone was so excited about communities of practice that they started calling everything a CoP (hm very recognisable!). She distinguishes CoPs from knowledge networks since CoPs have a shared domain, a joint enterprise flowing from a joint understanding of the practice, which comes from within. She mentions that CoPs are very popular because it seems to build people's skills to There is a webcast with a presentation by Verna Allee on value creating network. The good thing is that it takes an hour, but you can click on subparts,
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Thursday, December 8, 2005
There is a site map with a very visual overview of CoP theory (like the picture for hierarchy). Though it doesn't go much in-depth and doesn't offer links to articles, it gives a quick overview and some short definitions of terms (though it doesn't state where the definitions are originatin
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Thursday, November 3, 2005
also wonder how you may use the power of these networks for CoP purposes? (nice It also reminds me that I may read old messages of com-prac to see which other practical examples of CoPs in the south are share David Mould has posted something in com-prac@yahoogroups.com with regard to his experiences with communities of practice in Thailand: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/com-prac/message/5690 I recognised especially his important point about the extensive social networks (from the countries I worked in), which are very effective in getting questions and answers across. He states
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Friday, October 28, 2005
The article http://www.km4dev.org/journal/index.php/km4dj/article/viewFile/16/36 talks about a pilot to create two CoPs with members from CARE offices in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Sri Lanka. CoPs need to effect an organisational transformation as knowledge sharing is not the norm. So participation in a CoP will also be a personal I worked with CARE from 94-97 in Mali, first in Dire, then in Macina, both location at the border of the river Niger. I
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Thursday, December 8, 2005
To link this story to communities of practice; I'm still trying to think through possible differences of CoPs in various cultural settings. guess it would be too easy to think that in collectivist cultures people are used to be in communities and hence it would be easier to nurture CoPs, as these social networks (like Guanxi) are not around practices. Even though it is a risk in any CoP, the risk of CoPs becoming clique-ish in collectivist Pete Bond posted some articles in the yahoo com-prac discussion group , amongst others one by Hammond and Glenn called The ancient practice of Chinese social networking: Guanxi and social network theory .
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Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Dorine Ruter mentioned that she liked my blog, but that it covers a wide range of topics (she is interested in learning about CoPs). later read the other two which helped me amongst others to understand the concept of legitimate peripheral participation (a form of apprenticeship whereby people are learning by participating in the practice of the CoP) and reification and participation. (difficult This made me think that I could add a fourth stream: communities of practice inserting both older articles I liked and new ones. The basic theory is covered in three books: by Cultivating
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