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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Rosanna Tarsiero
gionnetto
Nov 2, 2006 1:17 pm
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...
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Fred Nickols
fwnickols
Nov 2, 2006 1:13 pm
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...
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Gerrit Wissing
pandlane
Nov 2, 2006 12:44 pm
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 ...
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Pete Bond
plawtonbond
Nov 2, 2006 12:08 pm
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...
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Cornejo Castro, Miguel
Macuarium
Nov 2, 2006 12:07 pm
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...
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Cornejo Castro, Miguel
Macuarium
Nov 2, 2006 11:41 am
(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...
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Cornejo Castro, Miguel
Macuarium
Nov 2, 2006 10:52 am
The origin question :-). "Spontaneous generation" was a scientific theory up to the 19th Century, before the first vaccine came up and doctors started to...
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Cornejo Castro, Miguel
Macuarium
Nov 2, 2006 10:44 am
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...
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Cornejo Castro, Miguel
Macuarium
Nov 2, 2006 10:19 am
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...
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Cornejo Castro, Miguel
Macuarium
Nov 2, 2006 10:18 am
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...
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Cornejo Castro, Miguel
Macuarium
Nov 2, 2006 10:14 am
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...
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Andy Roberts
andyrobts
Nov 2, 2006 10:00 am
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...
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Cornejo Castro, Miguel
Macuarium
Nov 2, 2006 9:46 am
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 ...
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Rosanna Tarsiero
gionnetto
Nov 1, 2006 10:18 pm
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...
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Rosanna Tarsiero
gionnetto
Nov 1, 2006 10:09 pm
Gerritt, You wrote: “if rewarded, participation might still be fruitful, but will it lead to the same quality of participation as voluntary participation?”...
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Fred Nickols
fwnickols
Nov 1, 2006 9:19 pm
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...
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Gerrit Wissing
pandlane
Nov 1, 2006 5:14 pm
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...
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Joe Firestone
eisaijmf
Nov 1, 2006 5:02 pm
Rosanna, Please say more about the CoP activity classification idea. Best, Joe ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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eisai@...
eisaijmf
Nov 1, 2006 3:35 pm
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...
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David Snowden
snowded
Nov 1, 2006 2:31 pm
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...
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Rosanna Tarsiero
gionnetto
Nov 1, 2006 1:02 pm
Terms of Reference Design of an Electronic Network for a Community or Practice for the United Nations Senior Management Network The United Nations Systems...
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Pete Bond
plawtonbond
Nov 1, 2006 12:52 pm
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...
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Fred Nickols
fwnickols
Nov 1, 2006 12:47 pm
... – 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...
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Fred Nickols
fwnickols
Nov 1, 2006 12:41 pm
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,...
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Fred Nickols
fwnickols
Nov 1, 2006 12:37 pm
... 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...
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matthewkalman
Nov 1, 2006 12:31 pm
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...
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Kaye Vivian
kayevivian
Nov 1, 2006 8:59 am
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...
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David Snowden
snowded
Nov 1, 2006 8:45 am
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...
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Pete Bond
plawtonbond
Nov 1, 2006 8:00 am
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 ...
