Dear All, Some questions Social groups can become parochial and have a collective ignorance. Power or lack of it can inhibit interaction and the flow of...
These things can happen... and are likely to happen... and become fodder for wisdom. Without exposure to such hubris, we would only repeat the cycles again...
Hi Jim, your posting inspired me to give feedback by asking some (maybe paradox) questions ... Persons and social systems always behave in a way to maximize...
You are spot on..."can be" but not necessary so and the degree/intensity varies.. Comparison that I can drawn upon, The Eco-Challenge vs. The Survival Game. Am...
A fellow who just completed the CPsquare communities of practice workshop asks the following: I'm currently in the process of developing my career in the...
Perahps the most powerful software that enables community and much, much more is www.thoughtweb.com - currently used by th US DoE (Sandia). One site - 10,000...
See a site that was created with limited web skills and with a CoP package that was FREE. (yes, really -- FREE, no strings) Running on Linux/apache/PHP/mySQL ...
Steve, That looks really cool. How much work (what level of expertise) does phpnuke take to set up, support, change? I'm trying to get a feel for the...
I agree - current theories of Emergence suggest CoP's will self organise like ant colonies or slime mould, producing disproportionately rich ideas than any R&D...
The web is merely one tool for developing the commuinity. Our center still runs/sponsors face to face meetings, training session etc. The CoP website acts as...
I'm a member of a London based eBiz network - The Ecademy - took 4 years to get 12,000 members - we combine online with off-line events - a formula that has...
Hi all, Steve's email touches on two major issues I have been grappling with in my work and research. The first is that the community and what we see online...
Hey Bronwyn, I am sorry if I am branching off this discussion to some different point, but I don't agree with the definition of a network that you have given....
Thanks heaps Ajit for the reply! I agree with some of what you are saying and yes I do see a network as being more informally and loosely bound than perhaps a...
Bronwyn, It would be great if you can share the whole paper with us if it is not a restricted item under any subscription service. As you are mentioning the...
Ajiy, Humbly willing to share the whole papers. I did not want to burden people with reading about teacher education if it is not their domain. I can upload...
I'm wondering if there is some different sense of the term "network" here. 1) one's "personal network" and 2) a network I see the personal part mentioned by...
I think there is some difference from how we percieve what is our own personal network and how we view social networks in general. One of the key things is...
Andy, I largely agree with the historical distinctions you make between these things. Equally in a different field of personal branding these interesting?...
This is good news. People are paying for services. That means people will pay for membership in web communities, which will make them viable economically. ...
Thought I'd chime in with a distinction I just read in a book by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid called "The Social Life of Information" first published in...
Thanks Tony, For the reminder of some thought leaders in the field. I actually bought the book from Amazon and to my shame and overworked state of life I have...
Very interesting Tony Wondering if Networks of Practice was the term I'd always been looking for I started googling. At first dismay because the term seems to...
Does Brown posit that networks of practice and communities of practice are mutually exclusive? Or is there room in a network for communities? Seems like...
Heath Row writes:Does Seely Brown posit that networks of practice and communities of practice are ... Chris Macrae writes: Interesting question Heath I'd say...
Heath, Brown definitely would say that CoPs are more intimate groups (more directly involved in the "practice"--work--together) within a Network of Practice. ...
NO or maybe Seely surely maps a whole new infrastructure which revolutionises the context of what organisations do (then everything flows in new ways which ...
Picking up Chris's last msg. I would make an observation. We seem to be talking about how CoPs can affect or be affected by the dynamics of a working...
I have some difficulties with your language Roy (all models are wrong sounds like a cop out to me) I hope that when engineers blueprint an aeroplane -and...
