Redefining the business model is a TOP-LEVEL decision We had a client, a subsidiary company, which hired us for a strategic planning exercise. One of the results of the exercise was a recommendation, with good reasons, from the subsidiary to their mother company, that their business model be redefined. CoP portal before community building We helped a loose network of NGOs set up their CoP portal, with the help of Phase 1 money from a donor Apin Talisayon’s Weblog – Knowledge Management provides useful TOOLS but it leaves MANY GAPS – Oops! (Learn

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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. thought it might be fun to look at this community, as best an outsider can do (which is usually not very well) from one of the CoP perspectives Etienne Wenger, John Smith and I use in our upcoming book, Digital Habitats: stewarding technology for community .  In My friend Sue Wolff generously lent me two books recently. The first, Marie Winn’s “ Red-Tails in Love

Not long ago I posted on how broad communities can be a fertile ground to sprout new communities, and I also posted about a crowdsourcing exercise to create a community/s. SIDENOTE - after this crowdsourcing exercise the next step it to organise the ideas into categories. Anyway the other day I got a request for a real classic CoP, in that it is about a subject matter many cross-functional Each category will be a new forum, our job is to move ideas into the correct forum. It’s great we are coming up with these forums after the fact rather than the prescriptive

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. thought it might be fun to look at this community, as best an outsider can do (which is usually not very well) from one of the CoP perspectives Etienne Wenger , John Smith and I use in our upcoming book, Digital Habitats: stewarding technology for community . (Crossposted from my Full Circle blog ) My friend Sue Wolff generously lent me two books recently.

by creating a series of tutorials and exercises to assist new users). Tags: community technology cptech01 Musings learning Co In the just-completed CPSquare “Connected Futures” workshop many of us have struggled learning, and learning to use, new Web 2.0 technologies. Exposure to these new technologies was

We would pin this to a wall encouraging people to ask questions and talk about their artefacts—great triggers for conversation interviewing key members before the workshop to better understand key issues, potential hot topics and what they feel are the enablers and blockers for the community run a sociometry exercise where you arrange people physically in a room according to a set of questions ranging from, How far did you travel to get to this meeting? terrific exercise to help people get a sense of the knowledge and social networks already in place. conduct appreciative interviews