Hi Rolf You are quite right, "‘Going the Extra Half-Mile’ - International Communities of Practice and the Role of Shared Artefacts" was my DPhil thesis and...
I just ran into this site on Foundations Workshop field trip visiting Web Heads in Action -- an extraordinary multi-national, distributed community of practice...
Hi John Thanks for this. I appreciate both the content and the way it is visualised. I am just starting to play with a type of visualisation and mapping...
... Excellent! @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 'I rarely end up where I was Intending to go, but often I end up somewhere that I needed to be.' Douglas Adams ...
Since the question cropped up a while back I've been having a think, and have now written an article on the subject. ...
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ijm wentsikken
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Nov 14, 2003 2:41 pm
Thanks a lot, John. We're starting a cop for managers of the dutch departments and this site is very usefull because it's visualizing the complex stuff in a...
Very excellent! and very timely for me, too, since I just kicked off a steering committee to define our first Community of Practice! thank you. Grace L....
Ian, Thanks for the article... One blind spot that we can have in the software business is a kind of of "presentism" that ignores or downplays what has come...
Sounds like there's a lot happening, based on the emails from people who said they appreciated and were using or going to use that visual map. *===> So what...
Melissie and others on this list are involved in producing or regularly attend this conference, which in the past has been quite good... John * * John D. Smith...
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Thomas Mathiasen
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Nov 14, 2003 4:33 pm
MessageWell, John. I for one thing have already used the visual map to introduce and explain the concept of CoP to others. The presentation is so powerful and ...
But Thomas, tell us more abou the situation! Doesn't what we know about communities of practice make us just a little bit skeptical about "self-explanatory"? ...
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Thomas Mathiasen
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Nov 14, 2003 6:24 pm
MessageHmm ... when the description is so clear, simple and obvious, that the the listeners (or viewers) just say "aha, so this is what CoP is about", then its...
Hello, I would second what Tomas just said; the maps with descriptions are "so clear simple and obvious". I am new on this list, I've been reading along for a...
How do you start a CoP for Managers? I keep hearing and reading that you can not create a CoP but you can cultivate one. How does one cultivate a CoP? I would...
In message <004301c3ab76$4071db40$9000a8c0@keimor>, Keith A. Morneau <kmorneau@...> writes ... How to build an effective CoP in a few easy lessons... 1)...
Thanks for the insight. That helped a lot. What I am finding is that face to face is a critical component of cultivating a community. The more face to face we...
Dear all, John asked me to forward this message originally sent to KM4dev, a community working in international development that is exploring different KM/KS...
... versus face to face? How does trust develop in a virtual environment? Can trust be developed in a virtual environment without a face to face component? ...
Do not wish to detract from this presentation, but I have some questions & opions to share. * What makes this visual presentation any different from a...
Trust is based on various aspects. There is trust based on talents and abilities, trust based on social affect, trust based on cultural sameness etc..Indeed it...
... Hi Denham, I'd be very interested if you could continue some thoughts on what you feel the difference between implicit and tacit knowledge is. Thanks ...
Robert writes, ... Implicit knowledge Stuff we can surface and articulate through reflection, observation and dialog. This may be distinctions, categories,...
... 1) In the early days F2F is important but not essential. a) I am engaged in a community that has been online for 3 years. It was founded in a pub, then...
... Please say more. I'd love to know what others think of this too! N Nancy White - Full Circle Associates - http://www.fullcirc.com - 206-517-4754...
Ian Dickson in a recent post on Reeds Law shared a document link that led me to another thought piece by him on the Psychology of Communities. I was struck by...
Have you ever had to wear snow shoes just to fetch the wood and then found you needed to change to your slippers when you got back to the house? Having worked,...
