Friday the 13th, ICCO invited all interested to an afternoon in Utrecht, the Netherlands, about working with wikis in development organisations. Compart flowers have their basis in the compart wikis , that work as a kind of starting page for themes and teams. 58 wikis have been created, with more than 8000 views/month. Some interesting and honest stories from ICCO , Euforic and IICD were shared, and David Weekly, the founder of pbwiki was around to share tips for power users of pbwiki and get input from his customers so that the service of pbwiki can be improved.

So far this post has been about community creation, but what I really wanted to focus is on the disadvantages of top-down creation of communities, wiki, blogs, etc… That is, what are we, the company, and knowledge workers missing out on by not being able to have the freedom to create these objects (bottom-up creation)? Casual communities are like bumping into someone in the coffee room, you never know what may percolate, perhaps a conversation in the bicycle users community will lead to a work oriented task, or finding some information, or wanting to create a new community, or

Primary reason I don't use wikis is that we have so much information to track across so many sites that I simply can't keep track of them and forget they exist" as opening statement - not sure this is a real argument, can say that about any new tool not just wikis. Valid point is the need for wikis to support rich information (video, diagrams, etc) and need for compliance, audit, DLP, etc etc Gail Giacobbe, Principal Program Manager Lead and Ted Pattison, SharePoint MVP "Primary Any new tool that requires behavior change can be a burden.

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leadernetwork FrontPage Search wiki: Home Edit page Log in Add features Help Welcome to our living bibliography on leadership networks. Here is a free online network survey tool you can use to run your own network mapping project. Leadership in Network Organizations and Society "Leading Between: Leadership and Trust in a Network Society" by Paul Skidmore . An overview of six characteristics that

Riny Heijdendael has given a short introduction on how to use mash-ups of different techniques to connect existing Wikis to Mapping tools like Google Earth. year they deployed a Wiki for their network development. Riny Heijdendael explained during a meeting what he is working on right now: One of the major problems I encountered was that more and more the network faced the problem of finding the relevant information, Milieukontakt International supports a global network of environmental NGO's. Since 1.5

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Community of practice From EduTech Wiki Jump to: navigation , search This article or section is incomplete and its contents need further attention. Some sections may be missing, some information may be wrong, spelling and grammar may have to be improved etc. They have a social organization that includes formal or informal hierarchies, some idea of social service 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

Here is another in a series of interviews with Samuel Driessen , Information Architect at Océ , about their Enterprise 2.0 In this post I will cover their experiences with wikis and lessons learned. Samuel is located in the Netherlands and his responsibilities include both the information architecture for structured information in applications such as PLMS and SAP and the unstructured information in places such as email and knowledge management programs. implementation and adoption experiences. Earlier, I wrote out their micro-messaging experiences .