Dwayne, when I first saw your announcement, I thought to myself, great... more spam. But then I decided to check it out and compare it with the rest of my...
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Eric Snyder
egs@...
Aug 1, 2000 1:17 pm
In 1997, the Ottawa, Canada Organizational Effectiveness Interest Group (OEIG) Book Study Group discussed the article, "The People are the Company" from Fast...
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Nancy White
njwhite@...
Aug 1, 2000 1:47 pm
Kaner, Sam, Lenny Lind, Catherine Toldi, Sarah Fisk, and Duane Berger, "Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision Making" (New Society 1996) My NUMBER ONE...
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John D. Smith
smithjd@...
Aug 1, 2000 5:12 pm
Chris, I like how you summarize the meaning of the "practice word": it sets a boundary re academic knowledge and implies "cross-silo". You say parenthetically:...
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Eric Snyder
egs@...
Aug 2, 2000 2:41 pm
On PR Newswire... Training Employees Through Communities of Practice: Accelerating Up The Learning Curve. ...
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John D. Smith
smithjd@...
Aug 2, 2000 5:29 pm
Dan, I ran across a write-up I did about a community of practice (they called it an annual "retreat") that a software consultant brought together for other ...
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Dori Digenti
digenti@...
Aug 2, 2000 6:16 pm
Eric, Thanks for the intriguing link to CoPs and training employees. As it turns out, the article is not research-based, but an invitation to join a ... I...
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John D. Smith
smithjd@...
Aug 8, 2000 3:27 pm
I've been thinking about how to bring out several issues regarding communities of practice in presentations and conversations. Specifically: * emergent...
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Steffen G. Bohm
s.g.bohm@...
Aug 8, 2000 5:35 pm
John I’m sorry to be so blunt, but I think this is WAY off… Your comparison belongs to the toilet, because it’s simplistic and wrong. Your labels for CoP...
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Steffen G. Bohm
s.g.bohm@...
Aug 8, 2000 5:41 pm
John I’m sorry to be so blunt, but I think it is WAY off… Your comparison belongs to the toilet, because it’s simplistic and wrong. Your labels for CoP...
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John D. Smith
smithjd@...
Aug 9, 2000 1:02 pm
I hope I didn't offend too much with my posting. I'm not saying that bathrooms and communities of practice are similar, but that when we THINK about them, we...
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Hal
halares@...
Aug 9, 2000 8:30 pm
Hi CoP members. I'm Harold Kestenholz, Education Chairman of the National Old Timer's Association of the Energy Industry. For many decades, our non-profit...
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stephen.powelltsn2000...
Aug 11, 2000 10:39 am
Hi Steff. I would imagine that many of us interested in CoP do in some way need to engage in promotional activities. In this I include both those who, as you...
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Harold Kestenholz
halares@...
Aug 11, 2000 5:33 pm
Just wanted to jump in because IMO you are discussing both sides in an ethical conflict. Centralized power structures discourage 'informal' interaction to...
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Chris Macrae
wcbn007@...
Aug 15, 2000 2:18 am
John and all Due to my hols, belated thanks for John's clarification that Wenger and Lave were the originators of the term community of practice. A subsidiary...
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Stephen
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Aug 15, 2000 12:31 pm
Hi Chris. The term reification is one used a fair bit by Eugene Wenger and John when considering how CoP manage knowledge in either a formal or informal way. ...
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Fourth Wave Group, Inc.
laramie@...
Aug 15, 2000 1:26 pm
Chris, With the help of this forum, I assembled a working definition of CoP. It is posted on my Web site, www.fourthwavegroup.com. Communities of practice have...
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Harold Kestenholz
halares@...
Aug 15, 2000 9:42 pm
Here are comparison definitions of CoP with other communities: http://www.durlacher.co.uk/research/re srepdetail21.asp...
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Chris Macrae
wcbn007@...
Aug 16, 2000 1:06 am
Does what I've ascribed below to communities of practice fit other people's vision. I'd be particularly interested in two types of answers: a) yes nearly but...
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Harold Kestenholz
halares@...
Aug 16, 2000 1:44 am
a) Knowledge is energetically shared by the energetic. It is focused by focused people. It is described using a noun that is turned into another part of...
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Chris Macrae
wcbn007@...
Aug 16, 2000 2:19 am
Harold: yes BUT I was selectively choosing words like energetic, focused and simple because if you regard them as primary for knowledge sharing practices to...
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Harold Kestenholz
halares@...
Aug 16, 2000 2:42 am
Chris, I indicated that people with low energy, a broad overview, and complex language can also initiate sharing; so the attributes you select narrow the range...
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matthew_simpson@...
Aug 16, 2000 3:38 pm
"In communities of practice, knowledge is energetically shared. It is focused. It is actioned. It is simple enough to cross disciplinary boundaries with ease....
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Eric Raimy
eraimy@...
Aug 16, 2000 3:50 pm
I want to thank the members of this group who helped me research my article on CoPs and HR. If you are interested in the fruits of this effort, the article is...
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Chris Macrae
wcbn007@...
Aug 16, 2000 5:00 pm
Matthew (thanks) ; I'll be the first to admit that I feel I have a poor vocabulary for describing the qualities of knowledge transfer and other things that...
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John D. Smith
smithjd@...
Aug 16, 2000 9:11 pm
Wonderful discussion! There are lots of good sources for the definition of terms, but I wonder whether we shouldn't adhere to some discipline: checking our own...
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John D. Smith
smithjd@...
Aug 16, 2000 9:20 pm
Eric, Only scanned it, but I like what I saw. Want to sit down and read it more carefully. Thanks for writing it and thanks for letting us all know. I'm...
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Stephen
stephen.powelltsn2000...
Aug 16, 2000 10:12 pm
Thanks John, It is valuable to draw us back to our own experiences. It is the reality of communities we belong to (whatever our relationship to those...
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Eric Raimy
eraimy@...
Aug 16, 2000 10:52 pm
John, I've noticed that this larger community (com-prac) generates lots of participation by folks who are seriously interested in the subject and generally...
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Cynthia Typaldos
cynthia@...
Aug 18, 2000 5:38 am
Hi everyone, I'd be interested in your feedback on this article about our vision of web communities. http://www.fastcompany.com/online/38/ideazone.html Thanks....
