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Wikipedia raids are great activities for communities of practice

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 23, 2006
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For some time now I’ve been advocating what I call ‘action-oriented communities of practice.’ The model is described here and it’s in use by a …

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Foundations of Communities of Practice

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 27, 2006
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If you want to understand Communities of Practice you couldn’t do better than join John Smith, Etienne Wenger and Bronwyn Stuckey on their online exploration …

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The difference between communities of practice and knowledge networks

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 31, 2006
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I was on a conference call on the weekend discussing Steve Denning’s book, The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling, with the CP Square guys. In chapter …

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The relationship between projects and communities of practice—redux

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 21, 2006
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Mark and I thoroughly enjoyed ourselves over the last couple of days delivering our communities of practice workshops. The discussions were excellent. Thanks to all …

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Stories, ROI and communities of practice

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 30, 2006
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Steve Denning has compiled some of his recent posts on list-servs like com-prac and made the compilation available on his website. He covers the following …

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Lessons from MySpace on getting communities established

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 25, 2006
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Aber Whitcomb, CTO for MySpace, revealed to Robert Scoble some of the secrets behind MySpace’s popularity. They sound similar to the advise one might give to anyone starting a …

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Incubating communities of practice thru projects

Posted by  Mark Schenk —March 17, 2006
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I was reminded last week that projects provide great opportunities to develop communities of practice.  No surprises really, with all that project time and effort …

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Starting and Sustaining Communities of Practice – New Workshop

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 9, 2006
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We are excited to announce our new Starting and Sustaining Communities of Practice workshop. We will run it in Melbourne and Canberra on the 19th …

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Communities of practice – the right brain of the organisation?

Posted by  Mark Schenk —January 5, 2006
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Happy New Year to everyone from the team at Anecdote.  We hope you are returning fresh and fully charged to take on 2006… I have …

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Communities of practice – international issues

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 9, 2005
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The gang at CPsquare are revisiting some guidelines they developed in 2003 for communities spanning time zones and countries. The original guidelines provide a great …

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