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Thursday, February 14, 2008
This is the young swan swimming in the waters near our house (there is a lot of water in our area, something which made a Malian friend exclaim that this is a very dangerous place!). The swan is slowly transforming from a grey into a white swan. I'm interested in the transformation phase in communities of practice. Most materials deal with the start-up phase of communities of practice. The first reason is that I looked around for materials about transformation/transition for a Dutch course, and couldn't find any good materials. A
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
That made me think that I could blog some of the questions I get (+ the answers). One of them was: how can blogs support communities of practice? community of practice can have a public teamblog. An example of a teamblog is the ecollaboration weblog . (Cartoon via tangwailing blog ) I observed that Stan Garfield blogs about questions he receives or overhears about knowledge management. 1.
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Thursday, March 5, 2009
This is the fifth in a series of blog posts I wrote for Darren Sidnick . am finally getting the rest of the series up. In our first post on Communities of Practice (CoPs) we disabused ourselves of the confusion between a community and the platform that allows a community to interact together online. Is a “class” I You can find part1 here, p art 2 here, part 3 here and part 4 here .
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
We went to the studio of 'Tussen de Oren' ('Between the Ears') a television program that does all kind of psychological experiments to share scientific research about communication and psychology in a humoristic manner. One of the questions to the panel was to find out what was true of some widely known anecdotes or 'broodjes aap' in Dutch. This was hard to guess! Some of the anecdotes that were not true were: eskimos have 100-s of words for snow cat survives ride in washing-machine you can breed 'bonsai' kittens by breeding them in a pot While working with
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
This is the fourth in a series of blog posts I wrote for Darren Sidnick . posted three last fall, then sort of forgot about the rest of the series. I’ll get the rest of them up over the next few weeks. The is the fourth post exploring more about Community, Domain and Practice aspects of CoPs mentioned in the I You can find part1 here, p art 2 here, and part 3 here .
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
This is the nineth in a series of blog posts I wrote for Darren Sidnick late last year in the context of communities of practice as part of online learning initiatives. am finally getting the rest of the series up. Community Heartbeats - when synchronous interactions matter
I Part 1 , part 2 , part 3, , part 4, part 5 , part 6 , part 7 and part 8 are all here on the blog.
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Friday, June 13, 2008
From a meeting to a community of practice - Upload a Document to Scribd Read this document on Scribd: From a meeting to a community of practice Sibrenne Wagenaar and I co-facilitated the inter-organizational ecollaboration learning community for two years, basically from a meeting to a community of practice. Since there seems to be an interest to better understand what facilitating a learning community from a communities of practic theory means we decided to document our actions, observations and reflections in a
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Sunday, September 13, 2009
person implementing across the whole organisation, within a department, across a couple of departments, within a group, etc…
Of late we have seen posts by folks at ThoughtFarmer and Socialtext on pilot/implementation methods. My focus is not on the social computing practitioner, but rather on a regular person wanting to run an online Community of Practice (CoP). This is not a post about social computing deploying/piloting/adoption in general. All these are applicable on many levels eg.
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. figured it would be good to exercise my memory a bit and unearth some of the key stories that led me to to my social media use today, and perhaps surface some of my patterns. The history approach also shows that while the term “social media” was not in play when I jumped in, the social use of online media has been growing I These roots are significant because our patterns of use, our ways of embracing or rejecting technology are grounded
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Friday, October 27, 2006
Martin Kloos wrote his thesis for the University of Amsterdam on communities of practice 2.0 . Martin studied the effects of weblogs, wikis and social bookmarking on communities of practice, as part of his thesis for Business Informations Studies. He analysed what the tools influence is on mutuality, competence and continuity in the community of practice. It's written in English, so if you are interested, you can download it and read it too. I
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