Fred Nickols has an interesting site with an overview, start-up kit and an article "What it's like inside". I think particpants here will enjoy the links are...
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Fred Nickols
nickols@...
Jan 8, 2000 6:42 pm
Hi. My name is Fred Nickols and I just joined the list. I'm employed full time as an executive director at Educational Testing Service in Princeton, NJ. For...
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Fred Nickols
nickols@...
Jan 8, 2000 8:59 pm
In case anyone is interested in what I look like, I put a .jpg picture of myself in the vault in the members folder....
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Denham Grey
dgrey@...
Jan 11, 2000 3:23 am
The December / January issue of the Harvard Business Review contains an article by Etienne Wenger and William Snyder (pp139-145) "Communities of Practice: The...
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pmford3@...
Jan 13, 2000 6:13 pm
What a pleasure to read your introduction! Thanks for revealing your background and interests. We are happy to see you here. And I appreciate your uploading a...
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pmford3@...
Jan 13, 2000 6:17 pm
Denham, Really appreciate your pointing us to the HBR discussion forum website. The CP discussion around Etienne Wenger's and Bill Synder's HBR article is...
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Dwayne Cox
dwayne_cox@...
Jan 13, 2000 10:03 pm
Denham, You are everywhere! Thank you very much for the invitation. I'd like to share with you a little about what I am up to as a partner of www.B-Coach.com,...
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Denham Grey
dgrey@...
Jan 14, 2000 3:54 pm
Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott and Bill Snyder have come together to form a Communities of Practice Consortium. Will this be the emergent core of the CoP...
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pmford3@...
Jan 18, 2000 8:39 pm
Again many thanks to Denham for scouting out important items/resources for us to check out. I just read over the proposed consortium on CPs initated by...
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Matthew_Simpson@...
Jan 18, 2000 11:59 pm
Hi everyone, Let me chime in on this notion. I do think that this egroups medium and collection of people is an attempt to do a community of community ...
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Fourth Wave Group, Inc.
laramie@...
Jan 19, 2000 4:32 pm
Paul and friends, It's been a tad busy here. And not much hope for otherwise! I'll try to chime in with something appropriate, soon. Meanwhile, FYI, below. ...
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Fred Nickols
nickols@...
Jan 20, 2000 11:06 pm
I, too, have read the prospectus for the consortium being put together by Wenger, McDermott and Snyder. I wish them well. However, I wish to point out a...
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Denham Grey
dgrey@...
Jan 21, 2000 4:13 pm
Came across this 1999 article by David Stamps while exploring what furniture companies were doing to promote situated learning. The article, which flows...
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Fred Nickols
nickols@...
Jan 21, 2000 9:19 pm
I'm familiar with it from the C-O-IL site, Denham. There's a link to it on my CoP site. Thanks anyway for a link to a different presentation of it. ... Fred...
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Matthew_Simpson@...
Jan 21, 2000 11:33 pm
Consider this. If it truly is to be a CoP, based on what we know of the current definition of CoP (more like a Zeitgeist, really), does it not naturally...
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Richard McDermott
richard@...
Jan 24, 2000 7:15 pm
Hello all, Glad to finally get connected here. A word on the consortium Etienne, Bill and I are developing. First, we really have no intention for it to...
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Fred Nickols
nickols@...
Jan 26, 2000 11:28 am
The latest issue of Sloan Management Review carries an article about "Strategic Communities" at Xerox. They played a role in Xerox's shift from a proprietary...
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John D. Smith
smithjd@...
Jan 31, 2000 5:58 am
I wrote up some notes in preparation for a conversation about "Why should you (folks in a management consultancy) care about communities of practice?" I've put...
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Carol Tucker
beladona@...
Jan 31, 2000 11:29 am
one thing you might do, John, is tap into the buzz around "Hot Groups: Seeding Them, Feeding Them & Using Them to Ignite Your Organization". This book by Jean...
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Iain King
iain@...
Jan 31, 2000 3:07 pm
Hi, I work for Orbital Software who supply software for enabling communities of "expertise". The goal of our solution is to enable Organizations to capture and...
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pmford3@...
Jan 31, 2000 7:29 pm
Hello, Iain, and welcome to our discussions on Communities of Practice (CPs). Thanks for your introduction. It really helps us get a feel for where you are...
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pmford3@...
Jan 31, 2000 7:43 pm
John, Another outstanding work (your artilce referenced below on the value of CPS for consultants). You make a compelling case for consultants to tap into or...
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Michael Burns
mbrev@...
Feb 1, 2000 1:12 am
Hello, I'm a Scottish pastor studying in Boston with an interest in C of Ps. Iain's search for resources triggered me to introduce myself and offer him a...
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Matthew_Simpson@...
Feb 1, 2000 3:09 pm
Hi Michael, I'm always excited to learn about the success people have experienced using any of Argyris' and Senge's concepts and materials. Knowledge about...
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michael burns
mbrev@...
Feb 1, 2000 3:41 pm
Thanks Matthew. I am preparing to teach "The reflective practicioner to 43 MBA students at the invitation of Joe Raelin. I will use left hand column and ladder...
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malre@...
Feb 2, 2000 1:03 pm
Introduce myself. Oh what fun. I guess it serves a useful purpose. Part of that bonding thing and creating group meaning <smile>. I work at Computer Sciences...
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Matthew_Simpson@...
Feb 2, 2000 6:16 pm
Mark Neff wrote, "I am hoping that this discussion group will help me identify ways to stimulate and measure participation of community members. I can start ...
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pmford3@...
Feb 2, 2000 6:16 pm
I was contacted by someone from Emergence (a Canadian consulting firm) who is interested in tools for collaboration. This person from Emergence is not a member...
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Fred Nickols
nickols@...
Feb 2, 2000 10:08 pm
Mark Neff introduces himself and then focuses on "ways to stimulate and measure participation of community members." Hi, Mark, my name is Fred Nickols and I'm...
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Louis de Merode
ldemerode@...
Feb 5, 2000 4:29 pm
Hi, John: My apologies for not answering earlier. I am swamped these days, good swamped so I am not complaining, but that slows me down doing what I like ...
