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Sunday, September 13, 2009
My focus is not on the social computing practitioner, but rather on a regular person wanting to run an online Community of Practice (CoP). It’s more about the social computing practitioner helping a CoP Facilitator help themselves.
ie what are the conditions that a facilitator can create to get their CoP off the ground.
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, October 6, 2009
I’m finding that some Communities of Practice (CoPs) at work are lacking leadership even though they have a community leader.
This has happened on several CoPs where the team leader has appointed their personal assistant or a nominated team member to set up a CoP…or the team leader has borrowed a person from another team leader as they like how they designed their CoP.
NOTE: NOTE: Personally I would be inspired This is a broad statement, and there can be many reasons for this, but in this post I want to focus on one particular reason.
The reason for
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
Designing and Facilitating meetings
...Tags: Tags: communities of practice facilitatio 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. I
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
The is the fourth post exploring more about Community, Domain and Practice aspects of CoPs mentioned in the first post of this series on communities of practice (CoPs). CoPs are not about learning things in the abstract. This is why businesses and organizations have been so interested in CoPs — they see them as a way to improve practices in the context of work. This is the fourth in a series of blog posts I wrote for Darren Sidnick . I
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
It was in “helping” “save” the community after Howard lost funding that I had my first big online facilitation failure. It was my urgency to figure this out that set me on my professional path as a practitioner and learner about online facilitation. This was where I had the amazing opportunity to co-facilitate an online workshop with Mihaela Moussou (now Michele Paradise). This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. I
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Thursday, March 5, 2009
Many people get worried about making sure their group is a CoP. 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. In this post, let’s wrestle with what a CoP isn’t, and if that really matters anyway. This is the fifth in a series of blog posts I wrote for Darren Sidnick . I
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009
I’ve written in the past of a support team using CoP tools to ask questions (forums), share tips (blogs), list workarounds to processes (wikis)…in all everyone can learn off each other.
Combination of Support Database and an Online space (CoP)
The discussion happens in the CoP forums where it passes everyone’s radar (as our support database doesn’t Now what about the customer?
Traditional designed Support Database
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Friday, March 6, 2009
Dorine reflects on a Dutch community (on rural agriculture) and compares her experience with other CoPs.
...Tags: Tags: online_communities online_facilitation communities_of_practic
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
First, from a CoP perspective, the platform is NOT the community. If you are trying to foster a CoP, there needs to be attention to both community, domain and practice. For examples of this, see the work of Leigh Blackall with Wiki Educator ( http://www.wikieducator.org/Facilitating_online_communities ) and Stephen Downes/George Siemens for their recent Connectivism Course ( http://ltc.umanitoba.ca:83/wiki/Connectivism This is the 10th and last in a series of blog posts I wrote for Darren Sidnick about communities of practice in an elearning context late last year. I
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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 development institution. The client approached us for KM and change management specifically to (a) clarify the range of user needs and requirements, and (b) facilitate organization-wide acceptance of the IT system. was very pleased with our proposal, which Apin Talisayon’s Weblog – Knowledge Management provides useful TOOLS but it leaves MANY GAPS – Oops! (Learn Learn from My KM Mistakes)
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