SCD and Intercooperation have commissioned a study called Experiences with communities of practice in India , an important resource published in december 2005. It is a good study looking at exisiting CoPs in the development sector in India. 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 The important features of the groups has been the leadership provided by a few individuals or organisations with the energy and time to contribute, not only with regard to initiation, but also for continuation.

Steve Glovinsky from UNDP reported in com-prac about the communities of practice for development practitioners in India. Let me try to interview him by e-mail to get more informatio The communities are across organisations. Even though he anticipated cultural resistance this did not occur. The UN platform lends the site impartiality and network moderators who are respected

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wanted to get a sense of how many people were tweeting about chocolate, and if their tweets were about their obsession, or if there was valuable information about chocolate flying around the tweetosphere. (Is On the information side I found: But chocolate is a wide ranging topic so using Twitter to search and listen would give you many results and you could aggregate The folks over at BrandonHall, the learning folks who blog lots of interesting links, pointed out a value of Twitter that not all of us may have seen yet. Twitter as a search engine.

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boyd School of Information University of California-Berkeley Nicole B. Ellison Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media Michigan State University Go to a section in the article: Abstract Introduction Social Network Sites: A Definition A History of Social Network Sites Previous Scholarship Overview of this Special Theme Section Future Research Acknowledgments Notes References About the Authors Abstract Social

Ernst & Young recruits many of the 3,500 college graduates it hires every year using a career group on Facebook, where it not only posts job information but also answers individual questions from prospective employees. Higher up are the "joiners," the 25% who visit social networking sites like MySpace; collectors, an elite 15% who collect and aggregate information; and critics, those who post ratings and reviews as well as contribute to blogs and forums. Knowledge@Wharton Managing Technology Research Article View Article on Knowledge@Wharton Mobile Not a Site, but a Concept: Tapping the Power of Social Networking Published: July 09, 2008 in Knowledge@Wharton Mini USA, the American branch of BMWs Mini Cooper line, tracks everything being said about its brand everywhere on line -- in blogs, discussion groups, forums, MySpace pages and much more -- then uses what it learns to guide advertising

The article starts from the premises that there is a link between information and empowerment, and women should not miss out on the benefits offered by the information revolution. The study looks at e-conferences in the field of water supply and sanitation in Kenya, Columbia, Russia, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, India and Ghana. There are gender differences in the use of internet. The potential and use of electronic conferencing: a study of women's involvement in a global context looks at steps that can be taken by e-conference organizers to promote greater participation by women in the south.

and they hope to make information available via blogs all over the world, but particularly in the south more accessible. bridgeblogger is a person who reads blogs from a particular country and reposts information that may have value to a wider audience. from the UK, and the other 74% are spread around the world, including substantial userbases in China, India, the Phillipines, Brazil, and Qatar. I've been a fan of Global Voices , since I discovered it. Via Ethan Zuckerman's blogpost I learned that it's now in the top 200 blogs of Technorati , the blog search engine.