Dave, Should we welcome you on-board or have you been lurking all this time? If you are new then you might find the archives of interest. The 'complexity ...
I came on board with the first post on complexity from Shawn (a sensible one I thought) back in September. I decided I was too new to the group to react to...
Hi Miguel, I agree with you on the need for facilitators to be members of the community and not just organizers. Over the last 20+ years I have been involved...
I just wanted to break the monopoly of meaning on what "THE complexity viewpoint" might be... I think there are a number of different viewpoints which credibly...
... think World Bank Thematic Groups were CoPs? Not having been a member of one nor having studied them firsthand and up close, I couldn't say with any...
I have long been of the opinion that names (a.k.a. "labels") serve to put things in a box so to speak; they have the effect of pigeonholing. Perhaps Lave, Orr,...
... – it doesn't matter whether the writer is right on target ... Probably not. That sounds like a faux CoP. My understanding of discussions in a CoP is...
Hi all. Although I think this has been said before as well, one of the reasons for the confusion over what a CoP is, or is not, is failure by Wenger et al to...
Terms of Reference Design of an Electronic Network for a Community or Practice for the United Nations Senior Management Network The United Nations Systems...
Matthew, you are of course entitled to use any term in the English language in whatever way you wish. However the theory of complex adaptive systems (CAS) is...
Fred, Don't know if Steve is a member off-hand. But didn't Lesley Shneier post here a few months back? I'm sure she'd be able to tell us a lot about the...
I'm new here... I have a question. Irrespective of how it starts or it is started - is a CoP a CoP from inception, or does it become one in time, when it...
I did go to the World Bank site and read what they have posted there regarding CoPs and their thematic groups. From what I can tell, these are more akin to...
Gerritt, You wrote: “if rewarded, participation might still be fruitful, but will it lead to the same quality of participation as voluntary participation?”...
Fred, You wrote: “I will always think that. CoPs formed long before Julian Orr, Etienne Wenger and others started writing about them.” How does this fact...
Indeed: it affects expectations. ... De: com-prac@yahoogroups.com en nombre de Fred Nickols Enviado el: Mié 01/11/2006 13:24 Para: com-prac@yahoogroups.com ...
I think the naming of concepts is really important because they usually end up serving as definitions in popular practice. It doesn't really matter who tries...
Hi Andy, that's be the natural course of a good CoP ("good" as in "there's serious practitioners in it and practice is shared"), going from shallow general...
Hi Kaye, completely agree on the whole early CoP seeding process and stakeholder interaction :-). And I haven't seen it in writing yet (other than in a certain...
I fail to see the refutation of Rosanna's hypothesis. We're talking "function very much like", which is not incompatible with "has ethereal or metaphysical...
I've been trying to find a text from 2003 to suggest a partial solution to the discussion, but the KB's apparently lost a lot of documents and I can't find a...
The origin question :-). "Spontaneous generation" was a scientific theory up to the 19th Century, before the first vaccine came up and doctors started to...
(Sorry for the disorganized answers, my email is not working well) I don't think Rosanna's description is neccessarily "heavy handed social engineering"; on...
Hello Lilly, yesterday we held a discussion on something related: the differences between several CoPs that had emerged in a domain, and of which only one...
I'm addicted to com-prac. You can help by not sending any more messages. Each message is a potential catalyst for the spontaneous generation of yet another...
Hi Rosanna You seem to suggest some kind of "formalness" in CoP's - that there is a specific point in time that one can refer to as an inception date, that it ...
I think you have a far more formal view of CoPs than I, replete with roles, division of labor, obstacles that must be overcome and, above all else, control...
Pete, You wrote: “I'm waiting for the one that contains the idea that will precipitate a radically new order of things, an idea to seed a CoP, about CoPs...
Gerrit, You wrote: “You seem to suggest some kind of "formalness" in CoP's” No :-) I do suggest that there are processes in CoPs and that, as such, they ...
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