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Etienne Wenger’s foundations of communities of practice workshop

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 2, 2005
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Etienne is running his online community of practice workshop. I highly recommend this event. I had a blast when I first participated and since then …

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Chip Goodyear says $8.5B profit partly due to communities of practice efforts

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 25, 2005
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OK, so Chip didn’t say that exactly. I heard part of Chip’s speech (on ABC radio) to the market announcing their record profit and he said their …

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Using Quickplace to support a Communities of Practice

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 22, 2005
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Quickplace out of the box is a useful collaboration tool for teams but its default configuration is unhelpful in supporting communities of practice. Here is …

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The role of instant messaging in communities of practice

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 10, 2005
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James Dellow made an excellent post today pointing us to some articles in The Australian which explore the ‘whats’ and ‘hows’ of instant messaging (IM). …

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Building stronger relationships in communities of practice AND lurkers

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 19, 2005
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Nancy White points us to a short report developed and written by seven CPSquare community members. The topic is one that has interested me for …

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Paper on communities of practice requested for online journal

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 2, 2005
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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 …

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Adaptive tension: a prerequiste for communities of practice?

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —May 14, 2005
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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 …

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Technology For Communities

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 24, 2005
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The guys (and gal) at CPsquare have created a new blog which will feature discussions about how technology can support communities of practice. Etienne’s original …

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The relevance of the open source model for communities of practice

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 17, 2005
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I totally agree with Mitch Kapor’s when he says: “Open source heralds a global paradigm shift in social and economic value creation of enormous proportions, …

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Communities and the role of variety

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 26, 2004
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I just heard today that a chapter Trish Milne and I wrote has been published. The book is called Human Perspectives in the Internet Society …

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