Archive for the ‘Collaboration’ Category

CoP Tips: Create Conversation

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 23, 2005
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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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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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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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Where should your community budget go?

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 20, 2005
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I was just re-reading some papers from IBM’s Institute for Knowledge-Based Organizations (now called Institute for Business Value). I’m writing a report describing an approach …

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Building stronger relationships in communities of practice AND lurkers

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 19, 2005
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Nancy White points us to a short report developed and written by seven CPSquare community members. The topic is one that has interested me for …

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The maximum number of people we can deal with in a network

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 17, 2005
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Dave Snowden used to say that we can only know 150 people at any particular time or for any single network (read identity). This has …

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Some great reports by Etienne Wenger and others

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 16, 2005
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In case you haven’t already found Etienne Wenger’s publication page, here is the link. In particular I would recommend the report to the CIO Council of …

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A great story of community of practice development

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 9, 2005
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I heard this story from the New Yorker was circulated among senior Defence staff in Canberra and it unnerved them. I think it’s a fantastic story of …

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