Hi John and all, I don't contribute much to this list, but I do read it regularly. You struck a chord with me when you mentioned games and learning. Like ...
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Fred Nickols
fwnickols
Mar 4, 2007 8:18 pm
Curious, I cut and pasted your link below, went to the URL and read the thread, which includes your comment at the very end. I came away with the opinion that...
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Steve Denning
stevedenning1
Mar 6, 2007 5:33 pm
Fred writes: "F2F and online interactions are different and probably result in communities with different characteristics." It depends in part on what you mean...
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Seth Kahan
sethwkahan
Mar 6, 2007 7:12 pm
Steve, What you say makes sense to me and jibes with my experience working with both online and face-to-face groups. I wonder if there are any references you...
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l_r_i
Mar 6, 2007 8:09 pm
Seth, I'd suggest taking a look at the collection of readings in Marleen Huysman and Volker Wulf (eds) Social Capital and Information Technology MIT Press....
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Steve Denning
stevedenning1
Mar 6, 2007 9:08 pm
Seth You might also look at the articles in the International Journal of Web Based Communities ...
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Bronwyn Stuckey
bronwynstuckey
Mar 6, 2007 9:33 pm
In my own research into Internet-mediated CoPs I found that there were many types of relationships and associations in the groups and for some at the core the...
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Bronwyn Stuckey
bronwynstuckey
Mar 7, 2007 1:47 am
Comprac members working in education are invited to the...* CPSquare March Education Practice Group Learning Circle* A CPsquare Education Practice Group...
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Fred Nickols
fwnickols
Mar 7, 2007 6:40 pm
... FWIW, I think they form a community of interest. Do I think they form a community of practice? Nope. Regards, Fred Nickols nickols@... ...
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johnschrus
Mar 7, 2007 7:39 pm
FYI - I don't know if anyone is still using this, but my CoP hyperlinked diagram has changed links. The new link is www.scis.nova.edu/~johnschr/cop/index.html...
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Rosanna Tarsiero
gionnetto
Mar 7, 2007 9:38 pm
Fred, You wrote: " FWIW, I think they form a community of interest. Do I think they form a community of practice? Nope." I agree with you. However I don't...
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John D. Smith
smithjd2tele...
Mar 7, 2007 10:53 pm
Thanks, Chris... I just pointed someone to the old URL (I assume) a few days ago in the Foundations of Communities of practice workshop. (Would you mind...
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Hinton, B (Brad)
Brad.Hinton@...
Mar 7, 2007 11:28 pm
Bronwyn, Steve, Seth, et.al. This debate has always been of personal interest to me. I think most people would agree that continuous F2F contact enhances the ...
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Pete Bond
plawtonbond
Mar 8, 2007 1:25 pm
Juast passing this one on to everyone. Free access to sage's journal of human relations. Article on social capital and networks in the 2007 edition. (see...
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Burgess Smith
burgesssmith
Mar 8, 2007 3:33 pm
Seth: Per your question on references that address differences between F2F and online communities, here's three sources that may be of use: Allen, S., Ure, D.,...
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Burgess Smith
burgesssmith
Mar 8, 2007 3:34 pm
Steve: I've had opportunity to moderate a few virtual teams and online courses with extensive asynchronous dialog. Although it well may have been a function of...
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arklscully
Mar 8, 2007 3:34 pm
Hey All, Some of you might be interested in having a look at this report: Communities of Practice: Lessons from Leading Collaborative Enterprises offers a...
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johnschrus
Mar 8, 2007 6:30 pm
Hi John, Here is the information: Old link: http://sites.inka.de/manzanita/cop <http://sites.inka.de/manzanita/cop> New link:...
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Warren Crosbie
wcrosbie
Mar 8, 2007 9:50 pm
Laura, is this Simon Lelic 2004 report ? Please can you suggest anything more recent? ... Enterprises offers a unique opportunity for you to benchmark your own...
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Kartik Bhatnagar
kartik1277
Mar 9, 2007 2:42 pm
Hi, The following link is a good read on CoPs: http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/knowledge_management/km2/cop_toolkit.asp Regards, Kartik Don Khoury...
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joitske
Mar 9, 2007 4:39 pm
Hi to you all, This discussion reminded me of a blogpost I read (the link is here http://ideant.typepad.com/ideant/2005/01/movable_distanc.html) and which is...
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John D. Smith
smithjd2tele...
Mar 9, 2007 5:41 pm
Here's a "testament to technology" in the context of "communities of practice": Joitske and I had never met face-to-face until we'd done "a job and a half" and...
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Rosanna Tarsiero
gionnetto
Mar 9, 2007 9:19 pm
Dearest Joitske, You wrote: "I think in the long run, we should all become a lot smarter at choosing between the two modalities (online and face-to-face), but ...
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joitske
Mar 10, 2007 7:38 am
Hi Rosanne, Thanks for these great examples! I do agree that remoteness was not invented by the internet. But the examples you gave, are examples of ...
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Rosanna Tarsiero
gionnetto
Mar 10, 2007 11:10 am
Joitske, You wrote: "With all the new technologies (through the internet) and people who start using them (and others not) I think it has become much more...
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Roy Greenhalgh
rgreenhalghuk
Mar 10, 2007 1:06 pm
Joitske Interesting note. Could you speculate what the conditions are that will cause this paradigm shift? Regards.. Roy Greenhalgh...
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Rosanna Tarsiero
gionnetto
Mar 10, 2007 7:03 pm
...this book: _Encyclopedia of communities of practice in information and knowledge management_ (2006) by Elayne Coakes and Steve Clarke? I was considering it...
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Charles Terrence Harper
chasthrpr
Mar 11, 2007 2:45 pm
Web 2.0 and the social networking manner in which we are using the web will ultimately change the manner in which we collaborate to improve our educational...
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Warren Crosbie
wcrosbie
Mar 11, 2007 11:22 pm
Rosanna, I've scanned most of the Encyclopedia, and found some chapters useful in my Tagunity research on language, CoPs, ontologies and folksonomies. Q. Do...
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Charles Terrence Harper
chasthrpr
Mar 12, 2007 1:52 am
Very true, Steve. I keep reading in various articles that structures such as Second Life, Digg and even Ebay are web communities. For academic purposes, we...
