was simply unaware of the label, the research and scholarship around these things we call “CoPs.” 8221; Back in the late 90’s technology was just used for distributed Cops - folks who could not physically be together. Then it was Azerbaijan, Georgia (the country), Armenia, Kenya, South Africa, Indonesia, Columbia, Ghana, Ethiopia, and a multitude of international NGOs based in Europe and North America who gave me the opportunity to apply online interaction This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media.

Darren Sidnick’s Learning & Technology: Communities of Practice (CoPs) with Nancy White Communities of Practice (CoPs) with Nancy White Darren wrote: This is a series of blogs on Communities of Practice (CoP). I’m excited as I’ve teamed up with CoP guru, Nancy White http://www.fullcirc.com/wp/ . Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Sep 07 2008 Communities of Practice Series with Darren Sidnick #1 Published by Nancy White at 4:21 pm under communities of practice , learning I mentioned a while back I was guest blogging

Smith) forth coming book, Digital Habitats: stewarding technology for communities. [...] # Marnix Catteeuw on 10 Apr 2009 at 11:07 am Hi Nancy, I used a similar tool to evaluate a CoP : http://marnixcatteeuw.spaces.live.com/blog/cns !B9C4E02838429A32!283.entry Subscribe here! Powered by FeedBlitz Technorati Profile Site Map About Full Circle About Nancy White Community Facilitation and Building Services Speaking, Presenting and Workshop Experience Trainings and Workshops Visual and Graphic Work Nancy on

Translating this to communities of practice: I see a difference, on a gliding scale, of CoPs which talk about their practice versus CoPs with members engaging in joint enterprises, with a lot of doing together. My sceptic attitude towards purely virtual CoPs stems from not grounding the conversations by seeing each other practice. think groups that have Sunday I watched zomergasten with Leon de Winter, (a writer) as guest on (Dutch) television. The guest can select his favorite TV/film scenes, show them again and comment.

Introducing CoPs and network ways of working introduces organizational change - so be ready. We have been doing this, all of us for ever, the only differerence now is that thanks to the 20 or so years of writing on CoPs, Lave, Wenger, Orr, Hildreth Kimble and many many more, and the whole universe of situated learning, the ideas begin to gain currency.And that is wonderful. Subscribe here! Powered by FeedBlitz Technorati Profile Site Map About Full Circle Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Aug 27 2008 From courses to community: Josien Kapma and Nancy White Published by Nancy White at 6:42 am under communities of practice , learning This is an article that Josien Kapma

I add, CoPs really look at periphery.) Subscribe here! Powered by FeedBlitz Technorati Profile Site Map About Full Circle About Nancy White Community Facilitation and Building Services Speaking, Presenting and Workshop Experience Trainings and Workshops Visual and Graphic Work Nancy on Other Sites Contact Resources Facilitation Resources Glossary of Online Interaction Online Community Toolkit Faciliplay:Play as an Online Facilitation Technique Online Community Purpose Checklist Bookshelf Wiki

Since my blog is about communities of practice and not about myself, I'm not so fond of the question of this meme, but it would be exciting to start a meme with an interesting content question about CoPs for instance. The second me and my motor-bike in Kenya. The bloggers meme 'five things' has been going around for a long time now. People who are tagged have to tell 5 things about themselves that people do not know yet and then tag 5 others.