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Friday, February 26, 2010
Personally, I’m of the school of thought that lurking is a form of legitimate peripheral participation , that in most cases, if everyone actively participated we’d be overwhelmed, that we often and appropriately lurk offline and that lurking is not always “take and no give,” that people do in fact take what they learn one place and often use it and contribute elsewhere. Second is another distillation of conversation, this time from CPSquare . I was asked about some useful references on lurking and lurkers this week, so I thought I’d refresh  myself with a few that I like. (I’ve
 
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
The memorandum instructed the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to provide guidance to executive departments and agencies on implementing open government. The memorandum outlined the three pillars of open government thereby narrowing the discussion to transparency, participation, and collaboration. One of the requirements set forth in the OGD was for executive departments and agencies to create a public feedback On January 21, 2009, the White House issued the Transparency and Open Government Memorandum. On December 8, 2009, OMB released the Open Government Directive (OGD),
 
Thursday, February 18, 2010
little bit about our respective practices A definition of technology stewardship The 2001 “Tech Report” for the Federal Council of CIOs was getting out of date.  proposed to write an update of it.  February 16, 2010 Theme: Rethinking Ourselves (KM People)  as Technology Stewards
 

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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. This may also I You can find part1   here,  p art 2   here,    part 3 here  and part 4 here . 
Tomorrow I'm going to present the difference between the theories of communities of practice and action learning (and between the communities themselves and action-reflection groups). CoP = community of practice, AL = Action Learning). Any input welcome! Characteristic CoP AL Is A theory, little I haven't found any materials comparing the two, so I had to do some brainwork for myself.
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
On the learning conversations blog I found a video interview with Etienne Wenger in which he answers quite some basic questions about communities of practices in organisation. What they are, when not to foster them (they are not a panacee), how sponsorship of communities in an organisation differs from managing communities. Highlights: think about Practitioners need to be in the lead. When there is a clear knowledge gap, just produce a manual.
Community Leadership in Learning - bees, mentors, coaches, experts and friends  This is the sixth  in a series of blog posts I wrote for  Darren Sidnick . am finally getting the rest of the series up. When we dream of community learning, we often have this idyllic fantasy that they I You can find part1   here,  p art 2   here,    part 3 here,    part 4 ,  part 5 )
It is the story of a community of birdwatchers in Central Park in New York City and how they observed, loved and obsessed over a family of Red-Tailed Hawks that raised a family on an apartment ledge just of Central Park.   If you have ever hankered to read a “real life” story about an organic community of practice, one free from the business pressures of CoPs manufactured inside of corporations, read this book. My friend Sue Wolff generously lent me two books recently. The first, Marie Winn’s “
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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It is the story of a community of birdwatchers in Central Park in New York City and how they observed, loved and obsessed over a family of Red-Tailed Hawks that raised a family on an apartment ledge just of Central Park. If you have ever hankered to read a “real life” story about an organic community of practice, one free from the business pressures of CoPs manufactured inside of corporations, read this book. (Crossposted from my Full Circle blog ) My friend Sue Wolff generously lent me two books recently.
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