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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 …

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’ …

Nancy White draws our attention to some interesting metaphors a startup called Socialtext uses to talk about virtual collaboration: * Socialtext — the building and garden* …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …