Thought I'd sharewith you two interesting developments on how we're improving ouroverall proficiency -- one formal, one informal. Your Information (Name and email address are required. A Journey In Social Media A journal about my personal thoughts regarding evolving a comprehensive social media strategy at a large company.

The three blocks described within this paper are: a virtual information pool, which utilizes Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), a single and central user interface providing ubiquitous access, and mechanisms to enrich the available data, essentially based on Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining techniques.

David RD Gratton Blog About Beyond Communities of Interest, Communities do not Exist July 3, 2005 My company has been working with what we have been calling Information Clouds, and I came upon Thomas Vanderwals body of work. He defines a Local InfoCloud as: "information that is protected by a firewall, membership, or by interest."

Frannie gets to some of the key elements that make CoPs successful as organisms that allow people to get together in an informal way and share information much more willingly than through other traditional means put in place for knowledge sharing. He just recently ventured into creating his own KM weblog over at ITtoolbox , too!

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Your Information (Name and email address are required. Central to the paper is the notion of ad-hoc topic communities. Suppose that you are worried about ice cap melting (the topic), and want to find people who have something to say on this. The title of the paper is ``A socio-technical approach for topic community member selection.

As in any group, there is a core who are very involved, and many more who are content to remain passive, merely accepting the information provided. This is beneficial in allowing information to move between the groups  in fact it is amazing how much help is freely given between networks. 2 - Is this value more important than growth?

April 10, 2007 Changing Information Behaviours L astweek I was given the task by one of my work colleagues of helping hercreate a new community of practice. The current information behaviour of the group is largely ad hoc.Each person does what their job description and the local ordinancesand regional laws dictate. Important work.

Tags: lessons+learning , stories Send this entry to: Email this entry to a friend View the Technorati Link Cosmos for this entry Trackback Pings TrackBack URL for this entry: [link] Comments I think stories from colleagues can be elicited more easily when the context is informal.

This can be aided by the use of static web pages to organize information, the combined use of linear and threaded conferencing space, and the regular use of summaries and reviews. Rizzuto The Cybrarian Cybrarians represent the gift of knowledge and information. They organize information and make it accessible. What do you think?

More than a team, taskforce or project group, and different from a line or staff department according to Michael Fontaine, research consultant at IBMs Institute for Knowledge Management, a CoP is an informal group that does not sit on the organisational chart. Which is where communities of practice come in. The first is participation.

Active bloggers tend to read other bloggers and other sources of information that the official community may not consume. Working in both spaces gives bloggers and community members the opportunity to focus when needed and still get a breadth of information about the people with whom they are interacting.

Arguably, people who regularly meets a coffee or a quick beer to shoot the breeze and all the while exchange ideas are communities of practice yet paradoxically such a formal description is the antithesis of the informal nature of such groups. As of December 2007 Jack will likely start writing about product management too. Indeed. Of course.

link] Hagel and Armstrong in their definitive book on business related online community, Net Gain , suggested there are five elements that define community which include: distinctive focus, integration of content and communications, a valuing of member generated content, an openness to competitive information/access and a commercial orientation.

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How are we going to measure the value that communities are providing to the core business while working with that particular unstructured information? Those couple of entries were around the subject of the two day training I attended on KM: Strategies and Tactics for Business Results. In that respect, a highly recommended course on its own.

The group would also exploit and aggregate individual, group and network derived information and knowledge by making them available to the collective where it can be combined, segmented, aggregated and mashed to produce new information for use by the group and a variety of individuals and networks. Hosted by Edublogs

But the likelier explanation for such declines is that today’s professionals are getting what they need from other sources—namely, relevant and targeted information; convenient and up-to-date delivery service; interactive membership experiences; and, in general, meaningful engagement in communities of practice. My "del.icio.us"

This, along with my reading of David Weinbergers "Everything is Miscellaneous" is also informing a workshop Ill be facilitating here in Brussels tomorrow on KM and KS in Development. This came out of the call from a variety of corners for "knowledge sharing toolkits" and workshops. It is not just about the notes, but the music they create.

However, we should not ignore, nor neglect, that perhaps the communities that manage to drive innovation the furthest are those with a very informal flavour , mainly because the different community members are driving their motivation to share, collaborate and innovate due to their passion for that particular topic. And they will always do.

Kennedy and the French Revolution | Main | The difficulty in being the expert interpreting a story » 19/06/07 | Distributed teams and the bane of time zones By Shawn. Follow me on Twitter. Filed in Collaboration. Lynda Gratton at MITSloan has written a short article of some factors that might affect the performance of a distributed team.

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Contents Event Information Announcements Wiki Index Schedule Session Notes People Jobs Board Travel and Accommodations List of Hotels Ride Board Social Media Sponsors Event Information Event: Online Community Unconference 2007 Date: Wednesday, June 6, 2007 Time: 8:30 am PT - 6:00 pm PT Location: Computer History Museum, 1401 N. Kim M.

Knowledge Jolt with Jack Jack Vinson writes about knowledge management, personal effectiveness, theory of constraints and more. As of December 2007 Jack will likely start writing about product management too. The Art of Building Virtual Communities Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach has an excellent piece on The Art of Building Virtual Communities.

also included the link to my 2003 paper on how I established several communities of practice (called pubs) at a previous workplace. couple of days ago, Shawn from Anecdote  released the revised short paper,  Tacit knowledge retention with communities of practice. some others), and across geographic space in Australia and New Zealand.

Lastly, I hope to catch up with people at the Institute for Information Management conference in Canberra on 15-16 August. Wenger is best known for his work on communities of practice (CoP). have read some of his published work, particularly when I was introducing communities of practice to the workplace of my former employer.

Informal learning - identifying bad practice Community of practice activity ► July (13) Friday Photo Wikipedia, community self-regulation and academic. The Business of Knowing Thoughts about knowledge sharing, learning and how business can benefit from encouraging both. The diagram below shows this movement across 2 months. Web 2.0

www.straitsknowledge.com blog articles how-to guides events publications book videos about Could a CoP Become a Gang I have just watched an episode of “ Get Real ” on Channel News Asia where this week’s feature was on teenage gangs. The challenge was that he had to run down 11 floors of an apartment block. The catch? Is it harmless? RSS2.0

think some organisation are going that but don’t have any information of the success or failure to such an arrangement. In the study, one of the causes that led to the dysfunctionality of the CoP was the lack of a leadership renewal process. It made me think of the flight of pelicans. In such a system, the spirit of trust is inherent.

Pretty much one of the things that Susan mentions over the course of the article is how communities and, specially, their usage of social software, is influencing the way knowledge workers get the job done much more effectively, connecting with those who may have the knowledge and re-sharing the new information back into the community space(s).

It works with same goal as Active Net, automating the process of finding relevant information and people behind the scenes. In this way, filtered information is delivered directly to your desktop, allowing you to view only those articles that match your preferences and interests. tool, illumio. The result was illumio. Tune in here.

It works with same goal as Active Net, automating the process of finding relevant information and people behind the scenes. In this way, filtered information is delivered directly to your desktop, allowing you to view only those articles that match your preferences and interests. Your Information (Name and email address are required.

What is a CoP? IMHO weve been running with a model that grew out of a very specific situation that is no longer predominant. If we want a model that truly reflects modern CoP behaviour, we need to take into account a number of changes that have affected CoPs - the same ones that have propelled them to their current number and role. They rarely do.

Collectives seems an obscure concept defined as less personal and are created by aggregation, analysis and exploitation of information generated by us as we engage ion both individual, group and network activities. Firstly there is massive confusion here between the informal and the formal. If this is the case why not use those words?

think execs and managers are somehow apprehensive or maybe even afraid of letting go into a seemingly ambiguous flow of information and action, whereas there are many examples of how most adults at work when trusted actually want to do the work and will exhibit many behaviours that individually and collectively will keep things on track.

Collectives are even less personal and are created by aggregation, analysis and exploitation of information generated by us as we engage ion both individual, group and network activities. He notes the confusion and multiple meanings around aggregations such as communities, networks, groups, teams. crews, collectives, cliques etc.

All of which is a windy introduction to the fact that the US Army has a long, rich history in communities of practice with now probably tens of thousands of online forums where soldiers of every rank can exchange information in a timely way. Your Information (Name and email address are required. 2007 Enterprise 2.0 theyre gone.

You can belong because you find out more information that you can share with other networks or communities you belong to. Ana Vale asks Beverly Trayner some questions. The CoPIM Steering Group are sometimes left puzzled about the dynamics of this Community of Practice. What are they doing wrong? Is that something normal? Absolutely not.

In this particular community we hope youll be able to be honest, open and informal with each other, share experiences, ask and give advice, create new knowledge together through collaborative dialogue and provide examples of best practice. Your Information (Name and email address are required. Here is another example. Please try again.

The course instructor-facilitator is Len Asprey, who heads a consulting agency, Professional Information Management and Technology Consulting, with world-wide clients. He was the founding Chair of the Institute for Information Management (IIM) and is a member of AIIM International. RSIS) from 1999 – 2007. KM Book of the Week Web 2.0

The only way to have relevance is to give benefit, either in the form of a flow of useful information, such as for the ski resort mentioned earlier, or in the case of a news agency; or to provide an interactive benefit, through applications, competitions etc. Of course I have an answer, but it depends on what they are trying to achieve.

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It’s not just a very elegant analysis of the role of self-determined communities contrasted with organised hierarchies (and it is) – it also probes some questions about the “metadiscipline&# of UX which have some strong parallels with knowledge and information management. URLs are automatically converted into links. RSS2.0

At the same time groups of people could informally come together without corporate support and these groups were communities of practice. Follow me on Twitter. Filed in Anecdotes , Communities of practice. BHP Billiton axed their division called Operational Excellence last year. Knowledge networks in BHPB were formal affairs. History matters.

Why does conversation need to be facilitated, is another question. Let me answer with the following points: 1) Sometimes conversations inside organisation need permission since there is still the belief that conversation is just idle chatter. Knowledge managers like to enable and allow conversations to occur since conversation is good for business.

Information does not pass through the boundary, non-members cannot see anything going on inside. Information can flow through the boundary to/from members’ other spaces including blogs and other social network spaces. Ed Mitchell: Platform neutral Network and community design and facilitation; event design and facilitation. Hopefully.

Ed Mitchell: Platform neutral Network and community design and facilitation; event design and facilitation. Blog About Ed Projects Services Community ROI Report November 21, 2007 – 1:39 pm Forum One have released another of their very handy online community survey reports, this time about Community ROI. It’s worth a download and a read.

Ed Mitchell: Platform neutral Network and community design and facilitation; event design and facilitation. Blog About Ed Projects Services Social Networks: Communities: a difference or two October 19, 2007 – 11:49 am There is some confusion about what ’social networks’ and ‘communities’ are, and where they differ.

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EG Hoarding of Information. Information is power. 3) Independence : Enable people to rely as much as possible relying on their own sources of information. Information is often located in places you would not expect to look. This group had little information. Afterwards. What’s a smart crowd? Examples.

You can add your friends to other groups and change their profile information, as long as they haven’t locked things down. And, it’s an interesting spin over the idea of collaborative information and the freedom of truth and/or opinion, vs a user’s right (?) Let others help you get their contact information.

If you are looking for information about me or my company, click on the "About Full Circle" tab at the top of the site. You have to work at it, whether that means rigorously analyzing a system or rigorously casting off paradigms. But in reality, it is always about change. Changing practices or habits. Changing our perspectives. United State

If you do, you’ll be enjoying the fact that your own users are helping others know what information is valuable on your website. It’s also valuable feedback because it helps you improve the quality of your information. Collectors rarely share information by email. Home Books Presentations Who is Matt? People like [.]

Ed Mitchell: Platform neutral Network and community design and facilitation; event design and facilitation. show the pictures about facilitation and moderation below to all clients (and anyone else who will listen) as the older I get, the more importance I associate with planning where neccesary. And the elements continue to evolve every day.

The Big Picture The power of social media tools is their ability to create communities: groups of like-minded people with shared interests who want to share information and experiences, and work towards a common goal. Your Information (Name and email address are required. They dont "just happen." Its just a web page.

We already had lots of places at EMC where people could share information privately (e.g. Funny how an information management company creates a mess -- like a plumber with leaky pikes at home. Your Information (Name and email address are required. Theres absolutely nothing wrong with the product. So, what do you think happened?

Your Information (Name and email address are required. A Journey In Social Media A journal about my personal thoughts regarding evolving a comprehensive social media strategy at a large company. « No Private Spaces, Please | Main | Are Social Networks Dangerous As Business Tools? So, heres what were going to do. No brainer.

It also involved a lightweight registration processes, because there has to be some event that causes the information from the external directories (e.g. Your Information (Name and email address are required. We spent all of last week getting our first social media platform up and running and suitable for human habitation.

Weve made it really easy for anyone to start an informal discussion or community. Your Information (Name and email address are required. A Journey In Social Media A journal about my personal thoughts regarding evolving a comprehensive social media strategy at a large company. « OK, He Gets It | Main | We Have Been Live One Week.

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Your Information (Name and email address are required. A Journey In Social Media A journal about my personal thoughts regarding evolving a comprehensive social media strategy at a large company. Certainly, that was the case here at EMC. And thinking about these the right way might be helpful. Why They Did It Its simple to understand. Why not?

We dont want two (or more) authoritative copies of information floating around. Your Information (Name and email address are required. A Journey In Social Media A journal about my personal thoughts regarding evolving a comprehensive social media strategy at a large company. What Do I Mean? Or youd like to sign up for the platform.

Your Information (Name and email address are required. A Journey In Social Media A journal about my personal thoughts regarding evolving a comprehensive social media strategy at a large company. « Creating Context For New Users | Main | Developing Community Developers » October 08, 2007 And Now The Real Work Begins. Well see.

Your Information (Name and email address are required. A Journey In Social Media A journal about my personal thoughts regarding evolving a comprehensive social media strategy at a large company. « And Now The Real Work Begins. Main | A Thoughtful Post. So, The Story So Far We want to get better at social media. They came. They saw.

They provide portals, and workflow, and enterprise search, and finely-grained information security, and integration with transactional platforms, and. Your Information (Name and email address are required. Id like to see that gap plugged. Maybe even plugged by EMC, in the best-of-all-worlds. No one had a better one. It just is.

Some people are just plain paranoid -- that some EMC employee will grab some piece of information, and end up using appropriately, and all hell will break loose. These people dont know about network effects and one day when they are empowered by information others have shared, then they will share back.benefits of take before giving.

Your Information (Name and email address are required. A Journey In Social Media A journal about my personal thoughts regarding evolving a comprehensive social media strategy at a large company. And were starting to see results -- not actually what we expected -- but satisfying and valuable nonetheless. Even developing economies.

Its friendly, informal, not stuffy, constructive. Your Information (Name and email address are required. A Journey In Social Media A journal about my personal thoughts regarding evolving a comprehensive social media strategy at a large company. Theres good news all around -- and a lot more to do. So, let me catch you up. Theres buzz.

Your Information (Name and email address are required. A Journey In Social Media A journal about my personal thoughts regarding evolving a comprehensive social media strategy at a large company. This week, I think we made a phase transition from "interesting project" to "corporate legit" Let me explain. Guess what? Cheers!

Your Information (Name and email address are required. A Journey In Social Media A journal about my personal thoughts regarding evolving a comprehensive social media strategy at a large company. « Our Day Of Fame? Todays discussion is about how we handled some of the new roles needed for an enterprise-wide rollout of this stuff.

« On Conversational Collaboration | Main | Too Much Information » February 28, 2008 Your Best Salesforce: Your Users As I keep you apprised of our journey here, I want to point out unique, special -- and sometimes surprising -- things that are happening on our internal platform. Our users are doing it for us. Thats cool.

We define the vulture as the opportunist that comes to the community seeking specific information and not interested in participating in any way. Or are you the type that comes and goes to get information without any interest in participation (Vulture)? The GroupSwim Diving Board Thoughts on Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0,

« Too Much Information | Main | The Big Conversation » March 05, 2008 Passion: The Secret Ingredient? Your Information (Name and email address are required. A Journey In Social Media A journal about my personal thoughts regarding evolving a comprehensive social media strategy at a large company. Passion. So, What Do I Mean?

In the case of a wiki, the technology makes it relatively easy to build work in unison to build out a wide array of information for the good of the community. Knowledge Jolt with Jack Jack Vinson writes about knowledge management, personal effectiveness, theory of constraints and more. These features / settings exist for wikis too, of course.

The company has a support wiki set up with all sorts of technical information, guidelines, suggestions etc, but it’s being used very passively by only a few sales partners. That makes SPRIG! I’ve written about wiki raids , and other folks talk about barn-raisings (which makes the community connection much more clearly). RSS2.0

Many of the speakers are providing information as industry best practices based upon a single community experience. Impact Interactions Cost effective Online Community strategy and moderation services using the best practices derived from over ten years of experience in helping more than 40 Global 2000 organizations succeed online.

Conference information and details will be streamed to [link] Conference participants are encouraged to blog, tag and links content materials. conference held in Las Vegas, and the information was filtered through my ears, into my brain, and then out through my fingers to my keyboard.  Conference Notes: Day 3 » Community 2.0

conference held in Las Vegas, and the information was filtered through my ears, into my brain, and then out through my fingers to my keyboard.  Conference information and details will be streamed to [link] Conference participants are encouraged to blog, tag and links content materials. Conference Notes: Day 1 Community 2.0 Use them.

conference held in Las Vegas, and the information was filtered through my ears, into my brain, and then out through my fingers to my keyboard. Conference information and details will be streamed to [link] Conference participants are encouraged to blog, tag and links content materials. For more information, visit the CMMC website.

actually had a friend help me try to chase down information on PageRank in an attempt to better understand it. The Common Craft Store The Common Craft Show Home Our Work About Us Contact Blog Search Common Craft: About This Blog Weve been serving up fresh content here since 2003. Subscribe to Our Blog Enter your email address: Got Twitter?

Even if you have concerns over Google’s ability to keep private data private (they seem to be better at it than the government anyway) then it should be the user’s choice whether they entrust a third party with personal information.  Been into a ‘trendy’ restaurant chain recently? Goodnight Friday the 13th. 01 No.

State of the Unions Economy: Ads on Kids Tests Tiny Geo-coder Updated, Reversed, Used CrisisWire.com: Emergency Information Just In Time Recent Comments nate: I see. So far, I’ve noticed that it seems a lot of questions are being asked like this: “So, that’s interesting and everything, but what things should we build?

Conference was kicked off by Barry Libert, CEO of Shared Insights, and then by Francois Goissieaux, the conference chair, who both stressed the mood of informality and strategic conversations. ROI- Return on Information- Information meaning profilesof participants. Your Information (Name and email address are required.

These different areas are called communities, and the information in one is walled off from the information in the others. The software provides a place for people to author content in community-centric discussion forums, and is a reaction to document-centric collaboration software. The semantic analysis and suggestioning (new word!)

Joitske gives four very useful ways in which blogs can support CoP’s but I just want to focus on one of them. Quoting Joitske: “A weblog with summaries of discussions can be a repository for the community. An example is the weblog Everything you always wanted to know about capacity development. Thanks for your comment.

He has over 16 years of consulting and project management experience in information, content and knowledge management. To the above, the value of KM is not derived from the ‘goodness’ of sharing; it is derived from specifically understanding the impact of knowledge, content and information to the intended role. Very handy; enjoy!

Posted By Stan Garfield | | Trackbacks | Permalink Incentives , Trends , People , Process , Communities , Learning , Maxims , Experts , Audits , Collaboration , Sharing , Leadership Comments No Comments Information disclosed in this community becomes public. Exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Your Information (Name and email address are required. A Journey In Social Media A journal about my personal thoughts regarding evolving a comprehensive social media strategy at a large company. « A Breakthrough In Taxonomy? Main | Taxonomies Again -- What Behavior Do We Want? We were wrong. The commentary was heated. Why change things?

If you capture information about your members and you make it easier for them to find stuff in the community based on their profile, the higher the value of the community to the members and the more members you will attract. Thanks for visiting! The more members you have, the more content they will create. customer reviews, etc.) CMO 2.0

You can find information one of three ways on EMC ONE. Your Information (Name and email address are required. A Journey In Social Media A journal about my personal thoughts regarding evolving a comprehensive social media strategy at a large company. « Taxonomies Again -- What Behavior Do We Want? vs. 2.0 Hope this helps. Great!

The central theme is we work through informal and formal networks, which may be tangible or intangible, but all have value. Exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. How can members harness the good aspects of competition, and mitigate the damage it can do to the learning environment?

These activities include regularly spending time increasing membership, lining up speakers, hosting calls and meetings, asking and answering questions, and posting information which is useful to the members. Use existing networks to inform possible members about the community. What core principles (should) guide community leadership?

The topic is "Architectures for Conversation: What Communities of Practice Can Mean for Information Architecture (IA)." Posted By Stan Garfield | | Trackbacks | Permalink Taxonomy , Strategy , Trends , People , Process , Communities , Measurement Comments No Comments Information disclosed in this community becomes public.

Posted By Stan Garfield | | Trackbacks | Permalink Strategy , People , Process , Communities , Learning , Reference , Measurement Comments No Comments Information disclosed in this community becomes public. Exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. What do you have in place? Stankosky, D.Sc. Calabrese, D.Sc.

Their initial focus was on consumer web communities to provide a better solution to mine the information in online forums. About | Contributors | Contact us | Subscribe: via RSS , via Twitter UPCOMING WEBINAR: No Time, No Budget, Fewer People? Big Ideas for getting all that work done. with the enhanced ability to support file collaboration.

Home Community Information Definitions Resources Favorite Blogs Speaking About My Blog How to kick start a Community February 19, 2008 | Establishing a Community | Connie If you’re interested in Community Management topics, there’s an active Facebook group where discussions are happening. Can anyone help me? You may be surprised!

Fast, accurate and quality reading/writing skills - I always recommend a timed reading/writing test that involves looking at multiple bits of information (posts, etc.), Thank you for the great information, and I look forward to Part 2. On Managing A Community. That is the content of Part 1. Community is non-linear. Head and heart.

The same thing goes for Marketing teams, PR Teams, and Support teams --both which report back to the product teams with information. skip to main | skip to sidebar Sunday, November 25, 2007 They arent your communities to manage Ive been giving some thought to this idea of building "your" own social networks. People think this is a good idea?

How to share timely and useful information across the organization, reusing existing knowledge and channeling emerging experience. Promotion - How do you help others connect with your community and stay informed? Is it obvious how someone would stay informed on news and activity? Living by Design. Photo Credit: PMThink! metrics.

SONAR: map social networks, information flows and expertise. Make expertise visible, get individuals the information they need and increase the reuse and value of knowledge assets. Exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. A: There are many benefits. Here are three of the major ones.