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Paper on communities of practice requested for online journal
I was pleasantly surprised last week to be asked by the editor of LeaderValues to submit my paper on communities of practice to their online …
Read MoreAgreed ways of working with timezones
I’m reading an excellent book at the moment called Distributed Work by Pamela Hinds and Sara Kiesler (eds.). While reading the chapter on ‘Face-to-face Communication’ …
Read MoreMetaphors for vrtual collaboration
Nancy White draws our attention to some interesting metaphors a startup called Socialtext uses to talk about virtual collaboration: * Socialtext — the building and garden* …
Read MoreBlogging at IBM
I remember, while working at IBM, that only the people ‘in the know’ had internal blogs. And those in the know were the thousands of technical …
Read MoreRemembering Community of Practice principles
One doesn’t implement communities of practice nor create them by management edict. Rather they require the right conditions to grow. Management’s role is to make …
Read MoreAdaptive tension: a prerequiste for communities of practice?
In the early 1900s a French physicist named Bénard conducted an experiment which is widely quoted in complexity literature due to its neat demonstration of self-organisation and …
Read MoreThe Journal of Community Informatics
For anyone involved in online communities, this new journal will be a useful resource. The Journal of Community Informatics Community Informatics (CI) is the study …
Read MoreInviting people to take action
Last night I met Brian Bainbridge (one of the pioneers of Open Space) at our monthly Emergence meeting. Our discussion revolved around the issue of what …
Read MoreWhy Smart People Have Bad Ideas
Paul Graham writes excellent essays. This one caught my attention. That’s the essence of a startup: having brilliant people do work that’s beneath them. Big …
Read MoreMotivating community formation
In helping companies cultivate communities of practice I frequently hear the following lament: this community idea is important but we just don’t have the time to …
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