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Communities of Practice

Posted by  Mark Schenk —December 12, 2007
Filed in Collaboration

There are a whole bunch of useful concepts used by organisations to focus their community of practice and knowledge management programs. Some of the more …

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Finding the domain for communities of practice

Posted by  Mark Schenk —November 28, 2007
Filed in Culture

One of the key challenges in starting a community of practice is to find the right domain – the topic that people are passionate enough …

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Tacit Knowledge Retention with Communities of Practice

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 27, 2007
Filed in Collaboration

Last year I wrote this short paper arguing that communities of practice were an effective strategy to transfer tacit knowledge. This week we gave the …

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Etienne Wenger on Communities of Practice

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 31, 2007
Filed in Collaboration

I was having dinner with Etienne last week hosted by Bronwyn Stuckey—thanks Bron. I haven’t laughed so much for a long time. So it was …

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Communities of Practice – a strategic technology?

Posted by  Mark Schenk —March 15, 2007
Filed in Collaboration

I saw the slide pack from a Gartner briefing today. It listed the ‘Top 10 Technologies for 2007’. Included in the list was ‘communiites and …

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Thinking strategically about communities of practice

Posted by  Mark Schenk —March 14, 2007
Filed in Collaboration, Strategy

I have just returned from the UK and from co-delivering a training program for new CoP coordinators in a global company. It was a great …

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Revitalising communities of practice

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 3, 2007
Filed in Collaboration

I’m truly blessed in knowing lots of interesting people. I don’t mean to boast but this morning it really dawned on me. I’m very lucky. …

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Foster your communities of practice by getting members to answer questions

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —December 21, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

Kathy Sierra had made an astute observation about user communities: they thrive if more people, from novice to expert, ask and answer questions. In fact, …

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Action-oriented communities of practice

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —December 3, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

This a re-posting as I have updated the diagram that goes with the post and there seems to be a growing interest in this simple …

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Running our communities of practice workshop in Hong Kong

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 11, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

I’m planning to be in Hong Kong for the The 3rd Asia-Pacific International Conference on Knowledge Management (11–13 December) and as part of the conference …

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