Table 1 summarizes these characteristics. Table 1 Communities studied Organization Community Objectives Community Activities Key Value Outcomes Multinational lending institution Urban services specialists Share experience and expertise across similar projects Held informal lunchtime seminars Conducted formal training sessions Facilitated Web site repository Produced CD of relevant intellectual capital Captured experiences of retiring practitioners in multimedia

A wide variety of groups and networks were studied, like a farmers group producing a journal, an exchange programme, a listserv and email discussion group, and information sharing group on livelihoods and gender equity and a group championing women's rights. One of the more experienced persons in the group took on the mantle of guiding the group including moderating the exchanges, and another member volunteered to set up and manage the e-group. SCD and Intercooperation have commissioned a study called Experiences with communities of practice in India , an important resource published in december 2005.

In a follow-up post on the actKM listserve, Brad Hinton makes the excellent point that cumbers can mean different things in different context, which is why qualitative input is so important alongside the numbers to help interpret them correctly. Because I often followed up on exchanges to hear from the person that received the greatest benefit, I often used their quotes in my report. The learning ripples from the actKM conference are still spreading, on the actKM forum as well as in the blogosphere. Matt Moore has published a very nice, pragmatic white paper based on his

He uses words like "feeling part of a larger social whole," "web of relationships," "an exchange...of offered in his book, The Virtual Community , "Virtual communities are social aggregations that emerge from the Net when enough people carry on those public discussions long enough, with sufficient human feeling, to form webs of personal relationships in cyberspace." "Towntalk ," a listserv on online community (now defunct) offered this description in 1999: "We define a virtual community this way: 1) It is interactive and built on the concept of many-to-many communications...;

This latter point was highlighted for me with a sterling debate among three key protagonists on actkm recently - a debate I really enjoyed but at times found difficult to follow (not helped by my part-time tracking of this exchange at one of my contract jobs). Sometimes there is so much tacit knowledge being made explicit in wikis and discussion forums and listservs that the meaning can sometimes be lost without spending the time to make sense of it all. Home About Brad Hinton - plain speaking Entries RSS | Comments RSS Category Cloud Blogging Business Business strategy Change management Collaboration Communication Conference Content management Culture Education & learning Information Management Information use Just me Knowledge Management Language Libraries Management Marketing Networking Networks Organisational behaviour Presentations Research Social computing Social networking Society Storytelling

This was almost impossible, but it meant that the entire activist community that used Charas was subject to instantaneous “Singer alerts”: the new landlord was obliged to announce visits with prospective tenants three hours in advance, so Charas would then send a message immediately over activist listservs, as well as their own phone trees, calling everyone available to dash down to the yard in front of Charas for an instant demo, grabbing signs left for the purpose in the Charas lobby, explaining to the visitors—say, the pastor of some Harlem church needing a space for choir practice, or some

Exchange visits between countries have strengthened community members’ resolve. The exchange of information is two way, as it flows from the wealthy to the less well resourced and back again (Resta, 2002, p. Braided learning does have in common with these models stages relating to access, motivation and socialization in joining the community, exchange of information and experience relevant to the joint venture, development of joint practice, and development of shared meaning. It’s taken a long time but since 1992 MirandaNet members have been learning how to communicate on line.

8221; The notion of a formal and informal “system” of knowledge exchange and knowledge distribution is where significant potential exists for organisational knowledge sharing and knowledge rearticulation. And, talking about value, Patrick Lambe recently blogged about CoP value as an extension of a discussion on the act-km listserv - a discussion in which I also participated. Home About Brad Hinton - plain speaking Entries RSS | Comments RSS Category Cloud Blogging Business Business strategy Change management Collaboration Communication Conference Content management Culture Education & learning Information Management Information use Just me Knowledge Management Language Libraries Management Marketing Networking Networks Organisational behaviour Presentations Research Social computing Social networking Society Storytelling

Exchange biz card, etc. People already interact on listservs and email. Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Mar 13 2008 Notes from the Seattle Online Community Meetup Published by Nancy White at 4:45 pm under events , online interaction , technology stewardship These are notes from the