I don't think I've seen this Call on this List, BUT if I have just cross-posted, apologies... "Adaptive Technologies and Business Integration: Social,...
A couple of ideas about communities of practice conicided for me this week. While waiting to be excused from Jury Duty last Monday, I started plowing through a...
... I was fascinated by your comment, John, especially in light of the fact that insurance claims examiners were one of the "communities of practice" studied...
Hi Claudio, all, just two things about background from observation: - It is true that people enjoy knowing more about the people they share a CoP with. If...
Nice topics. I find "ambiguation" most interesting. The other one, we're all rather familiar with as we have to "disambiguate" continuously in order to act. ...
ABSTRACT Metaphors, such as the Cathedral and Bazaar, used to describe the organization of FLOSS projects typically place them in sharp contrast to proprietary...
HI Miguel, ... I think there is a difference in types of background. Background can mean, which education you have, position you cover, project you are into,...
Hi Rosanna, I guess your statement "Knowing WHO you are speaking to, in terms of function in, for and to THAT particular community can actually help dialogue a...
John, The Hinds and Kiesler collection has a number of very nice readings in it that relate to disambiguation. I especially liked the chapter by Mortensen and...
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Southwest Airlines allocates one operations agent per flight. The operations agent acts as a boundary spanner, communicating among and between all the ...
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Medical guidelines are another interesting aspect of trying to provide unambiguous information in the form of instructions/recommendations as to best, or at...
Larry, Wow. Haven't made it to Mortensen and Hinds yet. But that's a very striking statement. I see two connections to communities of practice: * I wonder...
... Hm, interesting. I experience it as the opposite. Maybe that's because I like to be invisible in some of my communities. Or that outside status is one...
... and ... A clarification question: What do you mean by standing? Is it related to status and/or power? Beverly Our vision is more obstructed by what we...
I meant standing as an indicator of status or credibility. Some people's standing is such that even their mistakes are interesting, etc. John * * John D....
John, Interesting questions. I have found a lot of value in the readings in the Hinds and Kiesler book, slow going at times but very insightful analyses in...
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In a message dated 3/4/2005 9:17:00 AM Mountain Standard Time, miguel.cornejo@... writes: It is true that people enjoy knowing more about the people...
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In a message dated 3/4/2005 9:17:00 AM Mountain Standard Time, miguel.cornejo@... writes: In our case, we were going after increasing participation...
Hi In a message Date: Fri Mar 4, 2005 5:03 pm Subject: RE: [cp] Re: Prerequisite values for a successful COP? miguel.cornejo@g... writes: " just two things...
Jim Palmer wrote: "Aren't the early descriptions of Communities of Practice more along the lines of understanding communities of practice as emergent...
Richard - Good reply. Could this mean the CoP community is getting serious about system thinking? That would be a major development, a real breakthrough! Here...
John, Is an ID and password required for the KM blog below? ... From: John Maloney [mailto:jtmalone@...] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 10:52 AM To:...
Richard made two suggestions for helping CoPs to develop: "1) keep my eyes out for emergent CoPs, and when I spot one, work to clear barriers to people coming...
Hi Claudio, about the questions: No, the board system is at http://www.macuarium.com/foro Yes, the use of pseudonyms or "nicks" is very efficient in online...
Hi Jim, you've asked my favourite question. I'll try to answer both posts in the same one :-). But in the end I'll have to add a link. To start with, in my...
Hi -- Apologies. For the system thinking lilnks please visit: http://kmblogs.com/public/item/86272 Cordially, jheuristic com-prac@yahoogroups.com wrote: ...
