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He is starting Phase 2 of a CoP study with the primary, but not exclusive, focus of health and financial services. This week I feature one of Richard’s articles - How to Avoid a Mid-Life Crisis in Your CoPs : Uncovering six keys to sustaining communities. Communities of practice (CoPs) hold great promise for organizational improvement and thrive when first established; however, they can be difficult to maintain beyond mid-life due to loss of Weekly Knowledge Management Blog by Stan Garfield KM Question, Thought Leader, Blog, Link, and Book of the Week [ Blogroll - KM Home Page - Send a Question - Implementing a successful KM programme ] KM Question of the Week Q: What advice do you have for leaders?

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Use your judgment! Contents 1 Definitions 2 Supporting a COP through virtual environments 3 Communities of practice, formal learning and education 4 Components of a social learning system 4.1 Communities of practice 4.2 Boundaries 4.3 Identities 5 Building a social learning system 5.1 Community building 5.2 Exploring boundaries 5.2.1 Brokering 5.2.2 Boundary objects 5.2.3 Boundary interactions 5.3 Nurturing identities 6 Communities of practice in the context of teacher education

I think the deployment of our CoPs is a mix of a KM demand and supply strategy . see *some* of the CoPs we already have as a breeding ground or testing area for the worthiness of future business units. Actually Actually CoPs are a perfect example of an enterprise 2.0 Our Communities of Practice at work are currently in the development stage. As we learn the software and develop guides we are also piloting lots of various communities to learn about structure, and human dynamics.

In that post I briefly described the dynamics in Teams using CoPs; basically same dynamics (just different space), the obstacles in participation, and how the lead is to be a role model for adoption and facilitation of the CoP. This post is more of a prequel to my past post on team-based CoPs, as I want to share some of the questions I’m now beginning to ask Team leads who want to set up a CoP space for their team. Online communities provide a new way of working; and are more about the people than the tools. This is a follow up from my post, Team-based communities .

Here’s what Nancy says about community orientation: “In our research of CoPs we noticed 9 general patterns of activities that characterized a community’s orientation. members freedom to roam around the community and access information, and express their point of view, creating a more diverse CoP See it in the slidedeck below ( PDF ): Nancy White has been generous to share a section out of a chapter of her co-authored (Etienne Wenger and John. D

More effective bridges between knowledge, policy and practice are needed, with communities of practice (CoPs) well positioned to do just that. This paper describes the basic characteristics of CoPs and provides a rationale for their growing importance in international development. It also suggests some ways in which CoPs can be supported by development agencies, research institutes and donors to strengthen the linkages between knowledge, Communities of practice: Linking knowledge, policy and practice – is a paper that Simon Hearn from the Overseas Development Institute and I have been puttering on for quite some months.

Deep Blue Developing the Teams Communication Strategy by Lisa Kimball (pdf) The Community of Practice (CoP)Facilitator (or Coordinator) CoPs share and build knowledge around a practice. Facilitating CoPs online can focus on some of these "sociability" and relationship issues. Skills include group facilitation and a working knowledge of CoPs. Home About Full Circle Resources Contact Us Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Sunday, April 29, 2007 Updating my basic article on online facilitation OK, what do you think should a) come out of this article, b) is missing and needs adding in, and c)needs to be better reframed for the current context.