Membership may be bounded and explicit, but periods are often open or “ongoing.” rdquo; Membership is often on equal footing, but more experienced practitioners may have more status or power in the community. Membership and timelines are open and unbounded. Home What we do Keynote Speaking About Us Whitepapers Anecdote Associates Clients Contact us Categories Anecdotes Blogging Books Change management Collaboration Communities of practice Complexity Culture Expertise location Facilitation Fun Intervention design Knowledge Knowledge circulation Most Significant Change Narrative News Newsletter Open space Questions Quotes Sensemaking Social networks Storytelling Strategy « How a community can find the information it needs | Main | Get your executives reading over Christmas » 29/11/06

If the community direction starts to veer off-course, the membership serve to point it back in the correct direction. A lot of people are talking about the search aggregator Gada.Be , but it isnt specific to blogs. By Jack Vinson on June 26, 2006 11:20 PM | Permalink | Comments (7) 7 Comment(s) Andrew Mitchell said: Interesting that you choose now to bring up this topic, Jack. Knowledge Jolt with Jack Jack Vinson writes about knowledge management, personal effectiveness, theory of constraints and more.

It is good to have a mission statement for the group even better when it is understood by all members and discussed on a regular basis. The boundaries of the group, group membership: The discussion on the relevance of the group also includes that of the boundaries. Based on the input of John Smith , learning facilitator Don't plan ahead too far, outline a few steps, practice a lot . These wise words summarize quite well the advices given to our e-collaboration by the learning facilitator John Smith.

It supported a shift in the membership to include more of the advisory practitioners with similar practices in different countries. A community of practice is held together by passion, commitment and identification with the group's expertise, and hence membership should be voluntary (at least not appointed). I think the article by Etienne Wenger and William Snyder called Communities of Practice: the organizational frontier is still a very good basic article, talking about corporate communities of practice. Since it's a Harvard Business Review article I didn't think it would be

Ed Mitchell: Platform neutral Network and community design and facilitation; event design and facilitation. Blog About Ed Projects Services Membership engagement story December 6, 2007 – 5:05 pm Lyndsay Rees-Jones (CILIP Membership Support Advisor) and I gave another presentation about the CILIP membership communities at Online Information yesterday. Since talking about this project publicly, we have found that there are very few ‘community’ teams in HQs which are pragmatically integrated into the membership

Yesterday we had a meeting with GINKS members interested in discussing network membership and sustainability issues. think some of the ingredients that contributed to the effect of the presentation were: the fact that he knows his topics by heart from many practical personal experiences with networks and network management, his passion for the topic and the fact that all present had a huge interest in network membership issues (if not, they would not sacrifice their saturday to it) and the use of very practical, recognisable examples. I will add a picture later! We invited Mr.

The participants could easily identify with the idea of social learning and mentioned various examples of CoPs in Ghana: * Accra Linux User Group- people with an interest in the same thing come together voluntarily * Informal women’s groups – shea butter, micro-credit (informal networks, meet to discuss issues) * Ghana Agric Information network System (GAINS)- researchers sharing information on agriculture, open membership, voluntary, not just libraries We also asked them what makes CoPs in Ghana work successfully and got the following ideas: * Common goal exists * Driven by a common interest

And do you have any suggestion for Democrat party, what should they do as a political institution to guide Thai society to better future? I remember I once introduced and facilitated a participatory method for a membership meeting of WERENGO in Takoradi (similar to the world cafe, with people working in small groups on a question and going around to the next table). The World Cafe is a participatory methodology, trying to get people to talk about questions that matter to them. Chaiwat Thirapantu describes how this methodology was used to facilitate a meeting of the People's Assembly

Even though membership is open to other cities, I still see the same members on the website now. Etienne Wenger wrote a case study in 2002 about Ayuda Urbana , a constellation of communities of practice focused on urban issues and challenges in Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean region, or as they call themselves: 'Red Inter-municipal'. The case describes the efforts to assist 10 huge cities in the Central American Region to improve their technical expertise and municipal effectiveness by connecting mayors and their staff into forming communities of practice. The initiative

It means there are no membership criteria, no special bank accounts, nor by-laws for its operation. (this Erik Caldwell Johnson wrote a Capacity Development Brief on the Community Empowerment Network, a community of practice for local capacity in Central Asia. The World Bank and Europe and Central Asia Region (ECA) launched this network in 2002 as four national networks linked through regional activities that would build the capacity of communities and development partners to implement community-driven development (CDD) projects.