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Sunday, January 18, 2009
In the latter half of 2008, we worked with a number of companies to establish communities of practice. In training the people with key roles in the communities (such as the coordinator, core team members and those with support roles outside the communities) a common question arose..."what Of what do we do first?"
Of course the answer to this depends on the specific context.
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Thursday, February 14, 2008
This is the young swan swimming in the waters near our house (there is a lot of water in our area, something which made a Malian friend exclaim that this is a very dangerous place!). The swan is slowly transforming from a grey into a white swan. I'm interested in the transformation phase in communities of practice. Most materials deal with the start-up phase of communities of practice. The first reason is that I looked around for materials about transformation/transition for a Dutch course, and couldn't find any good materials. A
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
That made me think that I could blog some of the questions I get (+ the answers). One of them was: how can blogs support communities of practice? community of practice can have a public teamblog. An example of a teamblog is the ecollaboration weblog . (Cartoon via tangwailing blog ) I observed that Stan Garfield blogs about questions he receives or overhears about knowledge management. 1.
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Thursday, March 5, 2009
This is the fifth in a series of blog posts I wrote for Darren Sidnick . am finally getting the rest of the series up. In our first post on Communities of Practice (CoPs) we disabused ourselves of the confusion between a community and the platform that allows a community to interact together online. Is a “class” I You can find part1 here, p art 2 here, part 3 here and part 4 here .
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Thursday, October 2, 2008
Tags: KS-Workshop communities_of_practic CDC's CoP home page with resources on CoPs
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
We went to the studio of 'Tussen de Oren' ('Between the Ears') a television program that does all kind of psychological experiments to share scientific research about communication and psychology in a humoristic manner. One of the questions to the panel was to find out what was true of some widely known anecdotes or 'broodjes aap' in Dutch. This was hard to guess! Some of the anecdotes that were not true were: eskimos have 100-s of words for snow cat survives ride in washing-machine you can breed 'bonsai' kittens by breeding them in a pot While working with
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
On the learning conversations blog I found a video interview with Etienne Wenger in which he answers quite some basic questions about communities of practices in organisation. What they are, when not to foster them (they are not a panacee), how sponsorship of communities in an organisation differs from managing communities. Highlights: think about communities when Practitioners need to be in the lead. When there is a clear knowledge gap, just produce a manual.
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Monday, March 17, 2008
Tomorrow I'm going to present the difference between the theories of communities of practice and action learning (and between the communities themselves and action-reflection groups). CoP = community of practice, AL = Action Learning). Any input welcome! Characteristic CoP AL Is A theory, little information on methods I haven't found any materials comparing the two, so I had to do some brainwork for myself.
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
It is the story of a community of birdwatchers in Central Park in New York City and how they observed, loved and obsessed over a family of Red-Tailed Hawks that raised a family on an apartment ledge just of Central Park.
If you have ever hankered to read a “real life” story about an organic community of practice, one free from the business pressures of CoPs manufactured inside of corporations, read this book. My friend Sue Wolff generously lent me two books recently. The first, Marie Winn’s “
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Community Leadership in Learning - bees, mentors, coaches, experts and friends
This is the sixth in a series of blog posts I wrote for Darren Sidnick . am finally getting the rest of the series up. When we dream of community learning, we often have this idyllic fantasy that they justwork. I You can find part1 here, p art 2 here, part 3 here, part 4 , part 5 )
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