After a little bit of gentle cajoling, Nancy White has started to describe what she means by community indicators. And in good community building style Nancy …

I love what Nancy is doing jotting down the many things which might indicate “community lives here”—yes, turn it into a book Nancy! I discovered …

This article in Harvard Business Review Working Knowledge is both helpful and confusing. It’s helpful because it reminds community practitioners of the need to stay …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …