Its called a community of practice � a group of people informally bound together by shared expertise and passion for a joint enterprise � and it promises to radically galvanize knowledge sharing, learning, and change. Snyder Todays economy runs on knowledge, and most companies work assiduously to capitalize on that fact. Communities of Practice: The Organizational Frontier 2/22/2000 A new organizational form is emerging in the information economy, alongside work groups, project teams and informal networks.� Etienne C.

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Mar 16 2008 Harvesting knowledge from text conversations Published by Nancy White at 4:18 pm under facilitation , harvesting , knowledge sharing , online facilitation , technology stewardship

Promised to blog this piece from the dissertation in February (together with What pragmatists might want to know about blogging ), but wasn’t happy with it. From an organisational perspective, weblogs provide a people-driven way to share knowledge and to develop ideas. What is essential for facilitating adoption of weblogs in knowledge-intensive environments? Still not happy, but here it is (in a slightly updated form). *** For example, weblogs are useful for:

Our friend Rick Swanborg of ICEX has a piece in CIO about " Mitre's Knowledge Management Journey ," detailing what Mitre 's done in regard to knowledge management. bit of it here: February 27, 2009 — CIO — Since knowledge management (KM) The company fosters a knowledge-sharing culture to bring its Take a look. Nice work, Rick.

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Enlightened tradition Unpicking traditional assumptions about KM and the life of the law About this blog (plus disclaimer) google1ee55436f147bed6.html On Tarns Posted by: Mark Gould | 2 June 2009 Navigating the seven Cs of knowledge It dawned on me today that a lot of our knowledge-related activities reflect, depend upon or contribute to things beginning with ‘C’. As mentioned in my last post, this is a critical part of knowledge sharing. In that spirit, today’s post is brought to you by the letter C and the number 7. In no particular order, here are the things I had in mind.

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Yesterday, February 15th, it marked the first anniversary of that original entry where I was mentioning how it was time for me to take things in the next level with regards to my own adoption of social software, both inside and outside of the corporate firewall. Notice though that, once more, I am not saying email is dead (For me anyway); what I am just saying is that I am going to continue progressing further on my move to stop using email and use social software instead as my primary means of connecting, sharing my knowledge and collaborating with others. And so we move forward into the next challenge on my quest of eventually giving up on e-mail at work.

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. The knowledge gained by research is often trapped at the point of origin, caught in the language of research, or simply isolated from those who actually apply that knowledge – the practitioners in the field. Now it emerges from the editing process at last. (Funny Funny how so many writing projects in my life take so long.

The 7th Framework project Intelligent Learning Extended Organization ( IntelLEO ) was launched in february 2009. Effective Learning and Knowledge Building is boundary crossing Knowledge Knowledge conversion in cross-institutional models LEARNING AND Since then we have been working with the first deliverables. It is now clear that the team has a lot of Web 2.0