A treasure trove of online community advice

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 24, 2005
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Nancy White is one of the most prolific and interesting online writers about communities. Nancy has compiled these web pages offering practical advice to those …

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CoP Tips: enticing a busy expert to be a community topic leader

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 24, 2005
Filed in Collaboration

Distributed or large communities of practice require subdivision—one cannot feel a sense of community, for example, with another 1000 colleagues. One way is to nurture …

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CoP Tips: Create Conversation

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 23, 2005
Filed in Collaboration

It seems to me that there are not enough tips being shared about how to get a community of practice up and running and how …

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If you missed Etienne Wenger during his Australia visit

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 21, 2005
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The last two weeks have been a blast. We hosted Etienne in Canberra and Melbourne and spent some more time together at KM Australia. A …

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KM Australia next week

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 9, 2005
Filed in News

Off to KM Australia on Wednesday.

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Etienne Wenger in Canberra and Melbourne

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 9, 2005
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I will be in Canberra on Monday to host a series of events ‘starring’ Etienne Wenger. I will be doing the same in Melbourne on …

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Thomas Friedman’s talk on how the world is flat

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 9, 2005
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In Thomas Friedman’s talk to MIT (http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/266/) about his new book, The World is Flat, he argues that there have been three phases of globalisation. …

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Barriers and attractors – the practicalities of words

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 8, 2005
Filed in Communication

I’ve had the good fortune to work with Dave Snowden and Cynthia Kurtz at IBM while we were developing approaches to designing interventions using barriers and …

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Combining a conference call, IM and a wiki

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 28, 2005
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John Smith introduced me to the idea of making notes using an instant messenger while on a conference call. Here Clay Shirky takes it one …

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The paradox of groups

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 28, 2005
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Heiko Rudolf put me on to Clay Shirky’s writing today and I was perusing some of his essays. I was struck by this quote from …

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