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Petersmeyer is the CEO of Personal Pathways , a startup that aims to increase levels of trust and confidence among people within an enterprise “who need to collaborate successfully, but who don’t really know one another.” 8221; (I have no financial interest in or business relationship with PP) PP believes in the power of technology to increase trust and confidence among weakly-tied colleagues (and perhaps even to convert potential ties into actual ones). Andrew McAfee’s Blog The Business Impact of IT Home About RSS Is craigslist or eHarmony the Right Model for Enterprise 2.0? February 23 2009 Comments I had a very interesting talk a little while back with Gregg Petersmeyer and a couple of his colleagues.

Britt Bravo has a great post on how to start blogging . It's basically the process I went through, plus I tried to get some help and feedback from people before I started. And I'm terribly lazy with adding new things like a subscription feature, trackback, tagging, so I still have a lot to do. Somehow when These things are so horribly time consuming. At some point I started listing the blogs I was reading haphazardly in bloglines (now I have 22).

Home About Full Circle Resources Contact Us Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Friday, April 01, 2005 How Some Folks Have Tried to Describe Community - Update 2005 In 1999 I wrote an article entitled How Some Folks Have Tried to Describe Community . recent thread on Corantes Many2Many group blog prompted me to update this article. It was always a useful touchstone of definitions from some of the leading thinkers of the time.

just thought it's nice to continue with a picture for each posting. I have some articles I read which I found interesting, and the blog is an opportunity to review them and draw out the main points. I seem to doubt this). He argues that the transfer of a concept that is deeply rooted By the way, this is not my office, but a library in one of the ministries in Ghana. I

Powered by Castpost In the video you see how my daughter (and a friend) have learned how to read and write the word HUT. In school they use a method which includes a sign for each letter to accomodate for the visual learners amongst the children (I guess). This was not the case when I learned how to read and write (I learned it nevertheless). I can see the use of vlogs or video podcasts to accomodate for visual learners (and even illiterate people?).

always wondered if it's useful to look at national cultures if there are so many sub-cultures in one country, and how to avoid stereotyping. I finally read a book he wrote with his son Gert Jan Hofstede (you can find out how to pronounce his name here ) and Paul Pedersen who has a site with practical exercises . What I learned is that the core of working across culture is learning to separate observations I had never read a book by Geert Hofstede , but had come across his 'onion' on layers of culture a lot of times. As well as his indexes on national

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

I am a bit slow in responding, because I had to figure out how to deal with comments. The idea was to assess whether it is possible to form a community of practice of trainers to ensure a continuous social learning process linked to the Itrain online website , which is full of training resources. Even though there is no single best way of doing a community readiness assessment I think it's good to share our experiences, even though the official Beth Kanter asked (by the way this is not Beth in the picture, this is the REAL Sinterklaas): What types of analysis questions would ask at the beginning of a COP project assessment?

also outline some ideas on HOW to bring balance to situations where there is too much emphasis on reification? I'm very scared that I interpret the theory differently as intended summarizing it so much :), so her question gives me the opportunity to explain more as I read it. The politician's slogan can become a substitute for a deep understanding of and a commitment to what it stands for. Dorine asked: Do Wenger et al. Wenger writes in communities of practice, meaning, learning and identity: Reification can take a great variety of forms: a fellting