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http://www.worldbank.org/knowledgebank/research.html
supporting research, networking, and communities of practice
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resources to promote broad access to—and effective use of—knowledge and
information as tools of sustainable development. members cooperate in a variety
of ways-through pilot projects, learning events, capacity building, information
sharing, and project coordination. more information: www.globalknowledge.org
fact sheet: in html or as a pdf file the world bank group s knowledge sharing
network supports more than one hundred thematic communities
of practice, comprising bank staff and
development partners who share a common area of expertise or interest. these
groups provide advisory services, statistical databases, good practice
notes, and other materials to connect people who have key development knowledge
to those who need it, both inside and outside the bank. the program also
supports a dynamic external web site that provides a
http://alberti.mit.edu/anneb/abstract.html
anne beamish -- dissertation abstract
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do not lie with the individual dealership employees. these individuals are not
modern-day luddites or acting irrationally. in fact, the dealerships are
reacting in a quite reasonable way given the circumstances of their work
environment. it is the structure of the industry, business practices,
work environment, and culture, rather than the individual, that conspire against
creating communities of practice
or increased use of it for learning and communication. the study also
demonstrates that dealership employees are not a monolithic group. technicians,
parts employees, service advisors and salespeople all work under different
conditions, and consequently react to information technology, learning, and
communication in quite different ways. the overall lesson gained from this study
is that in order to use information
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/hildreth99communities.html
researchindex nec research institute citeseer computer science
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and kimble, c. communities of practice
in the distributed international environment. proc. design for collaboration: communities
constructing technology (york, feb 1999), 13-28. http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/hildreth99communities.html
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http://collaborate.shef.ac.uk/nl2000abstracts/foster.htm
negotiating practice: an analysis of an institutional dialogue about networked
learning
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of the change process are explored through an examination of theuniversity s
need to further engage the formal institutional nature of the organizationwith
the informal emergent nature of academic practice.
in conclusion, implications aredrawn for the university s capacity to learn
about networked learning. references fullan, m. (1991). the new meaning
ofeducational change. london: cassell. wenger, e. (1998). communities
of practice:learning, meaning, and identity.
cambridge: cambridge university press.
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~chip/pubs/easley/
emerging communities of practice
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and sometimes serve to hinder, rather than enhance dialogue. institutional
constraints often hamper the collaboration needed to construct useful theories.
in most schools, teachers are given scant time for extended inquiry and little
recognition for what they may accomplish. university researchers are rarely
rewarded for the extra time and effort needed to conduct extended work in school
or community learning settings. as a result, the
deep connection between research and practice
that piaget (1970) called for in his "science of education" has not
developed as it might. the situation in education may contrast with that of
other applied disciplines as well. in engineering, medicine, and agriculture,
the processes of inquiry, the research values, and the representational devices
(mathematical formulas, graphs, diagrams,
http://forums.brint.com
e-business technology and knowledge management forums
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knowledge sharing, intellectual capital... e-business electronic commerce (post
messages) discussions on topics in our e-business and e-commerce portal : crm,
supply chain, erp, bpr, enterprise apps, portals, net security, net advertising,
data warehousing, wireless... new economy issues (post messages) new digital
economy themes such as co-opetation, business ecosystems, communities
of practice, new corporate forms, transformation
of work, lifelong education and learning, cybercommunities, industry
transformations, new governance structures... business technology biztech (post
messages) discussions on topics in our net business technology portal based on
classic business researcher s interests: organizational learning, reengineering,
complex systems, virtual corporations, intranets, intellectual property, mis...
http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/asis.html
rethinking networks and communities in a wired society
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practice(lave and wenger 1991) are defined by
something -- an interest or identity,perhaps -- that their participants have in
common, regardless of theirlocation in space. thus we speak of "the
african-american community", butan
occupational or recreational group is a community
of practice as well.third, wellman (1999: 17-21)
suggests that a social network can be understoodas a community;
this notion, unlike the others, lacks a sense of commonalityor boundary. fourth,
a virtual community can be built in an internet
forum(rheingold 1993), although in practice most
virtual communities are embeddedin larger communities
of practice whose members interact through other
mediaas well. finally, anderson (1991) suggests that newspapers and other
mediacan create imagined communities for their
readers, and each of the other
http://iisd1.iisd.ca/networks/iisdnetworks.asp
networks and alliances - knowledge networks | iisd
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sustainable development. the consultative group on sustainable development
indicators (cgsdi) strives to help arrive at an internationally accepted
sustainable development index. the work of the cgsdi includes promoting
cooperation, better coordination, and strategizing among key individuals and
institutions that work on developing and using sustainable development
indicators. the sustainable development webworks is a community
of webmasters at sustainable development organizations. they build each others
capacity and strive to improve practice in
communicating environment and development issues online.regional policy networks
in addition to acting as the secretariat for issue-based networks, iisd also
works with iucn to coordinate regional policy networks (rpns) in west africa,
central america and south asia. these rpns aim
http://inkido.indiana.edu/research/copfrt.html
sasha barab's research projects: communities of practice
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d. d., land, s. m. (2000). (eds.). theoretical foundations of learning
environments. mahwah, nj: lawrence erlbaum associates. frompractice fields to communities
of practice. paper to appear in the journal of
the learning sciences on my research related to a community
of teachers project at indiana university. preparing pre-service teachers:
developing an empirical account of a community of
practice paper to appear in educational
technology research development on an nsf funded project on designing an online community
for learning. designing and building an online community:
the struggle to support sociability in the inquiry learning forum. new computer
endoresment cohort program based on communities
of practice notions. computer endorsement cohort
program homepage figure 1. dialectical relations among practice,
meaning,
http://stevedenning.com/communities_heart_soul.html
communities of practice are the heart and soul of km supporting communities role
of communities of practice
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role of communities of practice
building a learning organization requires nurturing communities
of practice where trust can foster knowledge
sharing-communities of practice
and knowledge management communities of practice,
community, practice, knowledge, management,
sharing, learning, organization, trust, world bank, virtual, technology communities
of practice, community,
community of practice, communities stephen
denning communities of practice
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knowledge management laws of
http://stevedenning.com/passion_communities_practice.html
passion is driver of communities of practice role of passion in communities
importance of passion in communities
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companies and executives who have spent their lives trying to keep emotion out
of the work place. nevertheless the lesson repeatedly emerges from case studies
and benchmarking of knowledge sharing programs. as a result - for reasons of
sheer efficiency and effectiveness - the modern workplace is finding it
necessary to provide time and space for both the head and the heart.. in the
process, it is discovered that communities also
enrich organizations and personal lives. nurturing communities
of practice and building on positive human
emotions in the workplace provide a key to creating and developing healthier
forms of organizations. the limited liability company has been an invention that
has helped generate immense wealth. it has also led for the most part to
emotionally desiccated lives for the individuals who work in these
http://stevedenning.com/communities_knowledge_management.html
establishing communities of practice for knowledge management-role of
community-importance of community
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community-importance of community practical
guidance on supporting communities of practice
in knowledge management and knowledge sharing programs-role of community-importance
of community stephen denning establishing communities
of practice for knowledge management-role of community-importance
of community body bgcolor="#ffffff" link="#0000ff" vlink="#0000ff"
alink="#0000ff"> knowledge management communities
of practice for knowledge management communities
of practice for knowledge sharing i read the
springboard i hear the buzz i learn about storytelling i understand knowledge
management i i discover knowledge-international i find my other work
http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~lueg/ecscw2001.html
ecscw 2001 workshop "actions and identities in virtual communities of
practice"
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activity in virtual communities of practice.
in particular, we want to investigate if and how it matters that activities in
physical space create and maintain interaction in virtual communities
of practice. in order to investigate virtual communities
of practice, we need to draw from several
research areas. we know from sociology that humans are social beings that tend
to form communities and we know from research in
virtual communities that humans are able to form such communities
in the virtual. we also know that ``communities
of practice may emerge whenever people work
together. however, social participation - as a constituent of communities
of practice - is not just engaging in certain
activities, such as working in a team, but actively participating in the practices
of social communities and constructing
http://www-l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~l3d/grants/uu-progress.html
designing useful and usable computational environments
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usable design environments will put skilled domain workers in charge, help them
perform their work, learn about tool use and group practices,
communicate with other members of the group and outside customers, and also
enable them to co-evolve their practices together
with their tools. this way, useful and usable design environments will serve the
tasks and needs of users, their communities and
their organizations. mid term exam: demo of a domain oriented design environment
for a community of practice.
present taxonomy of communities of practice.
final exam: demo of a useful and usable domain oriented design environment
evolved by a community of practice.
present innovative design framework and system architecture. present taxonomy
mapping needs arising in communities of practice
to properties of tools. quater chart: home page
http://www.apmforum.com/emerald/knowledge-management-3.htm
knowledge management and intellectual capital
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number of characteristics of knowledge need to be recognised, and accommodated
in learning processes and knowledge management. finally, the concept of a
knowledge entrepreneur is proposed. keywords: learning organizations, knowledge
workers, knowledge management, entrepreneurs article type: comparative/evaluators
content indicators: research implication- , practice
implication- , originality- , readability- communities
of practice in the distributed international
environment paul hildreth, chris kimble, peter wright journal of knowledge
management; 04: 1 2000; pp. 27-38 modern commercial organisations are facing
pressures which have caused them to lose personnel. when they lose people, they
also lose their knowledge. organisations also have to cope with the
internationalisation of business forcing collaboration and
http://www.brandknowledge.com/mem_a.htm
brandknowledge.com - members
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brandknowledge.com - members brandknowledge.com - members resources hot debate
news links leaders thinkers members help ask ben search members registration
sign into networks the notice board origin pages communities
of practice online surveys
http://www.brint.com/wwwboard/messages/1039.html
message: re: identifying nodes - growth of communities of practice
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slack is that the communities themselves will
pick up the opportunties and assess the value long before any outsider. the way
to go is increase the information flow, allow more self organization, reward the
results. the cops will take care of the rest if the medium is right, the end
goal is clearly communicated and there is room to move. i would be interested to
hear your take on this. follow ups: re: identifying nodes - growth of communities
of practice david fishley 17:33:38 5/25/98 (1) different communities
denham 15:05:53 5/26/98 (0) re: identifying nodes - growth of communities
of practice tom sudman 17:36:48 1/16/98 (3) re:
identifying nodes - growth of communities of practice
rob patzig 10:57:17 1/19/98 (2) re: identifying nodes - growth of communities
of practice susanne williams 20:38:08 1/20/98 (1)
re: identifying
http://www.brint.com/wwwboard/messages/67.html
message: tools for communities of practice
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functions track timelines, document movements and commitments and will be
enhanced with greater bandwith and multimedia shortly. now is the time to pay
attention to knowledge creation, (not datamining or retrieval of information
objects) but assisting the synergy of the group mind, assisting quality
critique, puling new ideas from the periphery. follow ups: re: tools for communities
of practice thomas m larsen 09:33:49 2/10/98 (1)
defining the virtual business community thomas m.
larsen 13:08:38 9/22/98 (0) re: tools for communities
of practice david p. klinkhamer 13:09:37 8/26/97 (0) re: tools for communities
of practice david p. klinkhamer 13:08:25 8/26/97
(0) re: tools for communities of practice
david p. klinkhamer 13:05:41 8/26/97 (0) re: tools for communities
of practice mezei 14:18:57 6/20/97 (0) post a
followup name:
http://www.brint.com/wwwboard/messages/68.html
message: re: how to harvest your employees' knowledge?
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information and passing on those packets to the users," the other model
states something like: "there is a great big river of data out there... we
give the users compasses and canoes... and let them navigate the rapids..."
the key challenge, in my view, is striking the balance between the notion of
structure (& control) imposed by the organization with the fluid, virtual
and dynamic structure (& control) that emerges within the communities
of practice. the focal appears to be passing of
control to the users, who motivated by a sense of self-determination, are
hopefully more actively involved in the knowledge creation process. given their
arguments, their point doesn t seem contrary to that being made by denham.
however, as observed by him, their title doesn t seem to capture the essence of
their thinking. - yogesh follow ups: re: how to
http://www.brint.com/wwwboard/messages/9921.html
message: contrast between formal teams and virtual communities of practice
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professionals relates to brint brint releases first survival book for
knowledge-driven organizations more news about brint knowledge management crm (customer
mgmt) e-commerce news online information online content online search engines
xml metadata vertical portals b2b online legal issues online portals computer
security databases wap wireless articles on other topics contrast between formal
teams and virtual communities of practice
( follow ups ) ( post followup ) ( discussion forums ) ( discussion archive )
posted by jeffery bridges on june 01, 2001 at 18:22:50: in reply to: a couple
additional thoughts posted by bill bruck on june 01, 2001 at 08:27:14: thank you
for your insightful observation of the contrast. i believe there is a grey area
between cops and formal organizational virtual teams. this grey ara contains
cops such
http://www.c3i.osd.mil/bpr/bprcd/5710.htm
leveraging to think?
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leveraging to think? leveraging to think? leveraging to think? susan u. stucky
and john seely brown across the board; march 1996 topic(s): training &
learning, creative & innovative thinking skills(home)document listings by: (title)(author)(topic)(coverage)(source)
abstract: we are already a society of learners, organized into what the author
calls "communities of practice".
learning is not a solitary activity; it is a social act that causes people who
work together to learn from one another in a natural way. this insight can lead
organizations to create an architecture for learning. the full text of this
document is not available in the library, but it is referenced here as a
bibliographic citation for informational purposes.
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~asb/workshops/chi/99/participants/jones.html
… the success of communities will determine the success of the kx system …
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practice emerged as an important component in
effective corporate knowledge management, so we explicitly focused on
understanding the role of communities and how
they function most effectively, taking into consideration a wide diversity of community
types. one outcome of the research on communities
of practice was an analysis of success factors
for successful on-line forums for communities of practice.
they are as follows. identity communities with a clear identity of what the community
is about are more successful. one of the key differentiators between communities
that thrive and those that do not is the degree to whi communities
based on organizational structure have too diverse a membership to engage all of
their members in active participation. while industry and competency communities
serve necessary functions, they contain
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/~marshall/jmis/jmis.html
making large-scale information resources serve communities of practice
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underlying materials rather than a property of the materials themselves).
representational variability will allow a given piece or collection of
information to be generalized and reapplied, and the abstractions that structure
it to be modified and reused. 3. conclusions large scale information resources,
digital libraries and other significant and authoritative on-line repositories,
are under development, ready to act as testbeds for communities
of practice. much of the research focus thusfar
has been on the technological basis for an infrastructure to provide storage and
access to this wealth of materials. but we also must attend to the
superstructure -- community memory and similar
forms of use-directed indexing, annotation, and informal augmentation -- of
these resources to make them serve the needs of people
http://www.engr.wisc.edu/services/weel/coalition/bibliography.html
learning communities annotated bibliography
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authority, and dealing with difference. a synthesis of the psychologically
oriented and liberatory models of feminist pedagogy yields insights for the
creation of inclusive adult learning environments. rather than prescribing
approaches, these insights highlight issues and teaching practices
that adult educators should consider in the quest to create democratic
classrooms in which every voice can be heard.iii tollefson, g., collaborative
learning communities in washington community
colleges (unpublished ph.d. dissertation, seattle university, 1990). i weber,
ellen, "uniting to introduce multiple intelligences teaching approaches
(mita)," nassp bulletin, vol. 83 no.604 february 1999, pp. 57-68. the
writer discusses the partnership between houghton college teachers-in-training
and cuba-rushford school. this partnership brought new
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/01/people.html
the people are the company
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implementation promised with each new consulting nostrum. to some extent they
are counterintuitive: to win in the new world of business, managers shouldn t
try to gain control, they should surrender it. in other words, these ideas are
real. and they match what we re discovering about the nature of working in the
knowledge era. how can we begin to convert these principles into action? with communities
of practice ( cops ) -- the critical building
block of a knowledge-based company. what are cops? think back to national and
the pll engineers. at the simplest level, they are a small group of people ( in
this case, about 20 ) who ve worked together over a period of time. not a team,
not a task force, not necessarily an authorized or identified group. people in
cops can perform the same job ( tech reps ) or collaborate on a shared task (
http://www.gsn.org/teach/articles/netasplace.html
internet as place
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involve apublication phase. however, publishing implies an audience, a set of
readers. a caution toonline enthusiasm about publishing is that putting work on
the web is not necessarily thesame as publishing. publishing implies a
readership. the internet could become a vastpublic storage system for
information, but this is something quite different from havingthings published
within a community of practice.
the structure we evolve for"value-ing" information indexes community.
we need to remember that writing isto an audience and there needs to be a
relationship between writers and readers. they needto each be concerned about
the other. inviting the village into the classroom; taking students out into
thevillage we send children to school to give them the opportunity to move
beyond the constraintsof family and friends
http://www.iirusa.com/communitiesofpractice/
communities of practice 2001 - conference overview
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organization quickly and easily. communities of practice
are emerging as a key mechanism for creating, and sharing, and applying
knowledge. a community of practice
can be: a group of people who meet regularly to share innovations, an online
discussion forum of individuals working to solve common business problems, or a
group that crosses departmental or organizational boundaries to share ideas.at
iir’s fourth communities of practice
conference, you will learn: practical skills for implementing and improving communities
in your organization how leading organizations use communities
for knowledge sharing and business improvement how to legitimize and show the
value of a community of practice
skills tools for measuring and managing communities
incentives to increase community participation
how to elicit knowledge a vibrant, living
http://www.icasit.org/km/kmarticles.htm
icasit km central: knowledge management articles
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knowledge management or something else - it s the bedrock that s supporting
today s corporate strategies. knowledge management strategies have an alarming
failure rate. this article believes that this is due primarily to a reliance on
technology. the article discusses the five largest pitfalls and how to avoid
them while implementing knowledge management projects. amidon, debra m., "the
emerging community of knowledge practice"
although this article discusses the value of km accros functions within and
oganization as well as from inter-organization efforts." amidon, debra m.,
"the momentum of knowledge management" although this article is
several years old, it does provide a solid overview of how the knowledge
management field is expanding. knowledge sharing is essential to the
organization, and a "middle-up-down" management structure
http://www.internettime.com/itimegroup/learning.htm
how people learn
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would automate every aspect of learning today seems irresponsible. that dog won
t hunt. the old way of looking at learning: teach = fill their empty heads. from
the institute for research on learning assess = see what s inside. learning
about learning is occupying my thoughts these days (mid 2001) and i expect to
spew lots of ideas on the topic in the next few months. i m reading wenger s communities
of practice and enjoying it immensely. the mind s
past has got me thinking about conning the internal con man, the "interpreter"
that puts a spin on things to fake us into thinking we re in control and that
the world is rational. the evolution of everyday things and metaphors we live by
put me in the mood of thinking everything is a variation of something that came
before; nothing s de novo. perhaps the jungian introvert/extrovert will play
http://www.km.gov/cop/cop.html
km.gov - communities of practice
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february 23, 2000, minutes march 8, 2000, minutes may 17, 2000, minutes (pdf)
caucus systems site visit (pdf) october 19, 2000, minutes world bank site visit
establishing communities of practice
cop pilot concept image february 14, 2001, minutes case study: fhwa resource
center expertise locator (ms word) case study: fmcsa 2010 strategy and
performance planning community of practice
(cop) (ms word) case study: re:nepa community of practice
(cop) (ms word) so you think you want to be a community…?
(ms word) fhwa building communities of practice
for knowledge exchange (pdf poster) march 28, 2001 minutes (ms word) good practices
for starting a cop (ms word) tentative schedule for the cop special interest
group, may 2000 - january 2001 (ms word) online communities:
designing usability, supporting sociability dr. jenny preece, university of
http://www.km.gov/documents/cop/index.htm
communities of practice: key to knowledge strategy
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communities of practice:
key to knowledge strategy/head>communities of practice:
key to knowledge strategy 12/4/2000 click here to start table of contents ppt
slide a traditional functional organization the move to car platforms tech clubs
saved the platform idea: tech clubs matured through successive phases: tech
clubs were not made into formal structures: in an organization, a community
of practice is a group of people who care about a
common set of issues, share and develop knowledge in that domain, and thus
steward a competence critical to the success of the organization. ppt slide in
organizations, communities of practice
are found: ppt slide ppt slide on communities of practice
ppt slide ppt slide ppt slide ppt slide communities of practice
are the next phase in organizational design: ppt slide ppt slide ppt
http://www.km.gov/cop/cop_primer.html
primer on communities of practice
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develop strategic perspectives that transcend the fragmentation of product lines.
for instance, a community of practice
may propose a plan for equipment purchase that no one business unit could have
come up with on its own. across company boundaries: in some cases, communities
of practice become useful by crossing
organizational boundaries. for instance, in fast-moving industries, engineers
who work for suppliers and buyers may form a community
of practice to keep up with constant
technological changes. communities of practice
are not a new kind of organizational unit; rather, they are adifferent cut on
the organization s structure–one that emphasizes the learningthat people have
done together rather than the unit they report to, the project they areworking
on, or the people they know. communities of practice
differ from other kinds
http://www.km.gov/links/cop_links.html
km.gov - knowledge management communities of practice links
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knowledge management communities of practice
links. km.gov - knowledge management communities
of practice links/head> communities of practice
communities of practice community
intelligence labs communities of practice: an
introduction michael mcmaster communities of
practice: combining organizational learning and strategy insights to create a
bridge to the 21st century william m. snyder, august 1997 communities
of practice: learning as a social system etienne
wenger, ph.d. communities of practice:
learning is social. training is irrelevant? david stamp communities
of practice seminar synopsis in may of 2001, a
subject concentration seminar on communities of practice
(cop) was held in the virtual kmci chaper egroup of yahoo groups. denham grey of
grey matter served as the seminar s host and posted thread
http://www.learnativity.com/community.html
community - learnativity.com
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experiential, simulations, leadership, human capital, training offering busy
people information on learning, productivity, creativity, balance, and
thought-leadership. community - learnativity.com
learnativity.com themes community email lists online community
report towntalk from dynapolis learning communities
egroup virtual communities egroupreally good
books community building on the web: secret
strategies for successful online communities. amy
jo kim, 1999. communities of practice:
learning, meaning, and identity. etienne wenger, 1999. communities
in cyberspace. marc a. smith, 1998. the community
of the future. the drucker foundation, 1998. net gain: expanding markets through
virtual communities john hagel, arthur armstrong,
1997. hosting web communities cliff
http://www.managementscience.org/research/ab0009.asp
effective virtual teams through communities of practice, management science,
strathclyde university
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highlights some of the issues of trust and identity that exist in virtual teams
and argues that, due to certain barriers, only a small proportion of these teams
reach a satisfactory level of performance. using the evidence from two recent
sets of studies, it highlights some of the barriers to effective virtual team
working and demonstrates the critical importance of trust and social bonding to
the functioning of such teams. it reports on the use of a community
of practice in a virtual team and argues that
this may provide one mechanism for overcoming some of the barriers. finally, it
argues that many of the problems stem from a lack of understanding of the new
geography of the information economy and that, rather than accepting the notion
that geography no longer matters , continued efforts must be made to understand
the
http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/elearning/communities.html
communities of practice
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believe the most important e-learning will be developmental in nature.that is
because the combinationof training, development, and education over aperiod of
time has a synergic power that grows theindividual far beyond any single subject
she may learn.internet style of learning according to the four styles (empowerment
through self-directed, web-based learning)listed below, communities
of practice would fall under the third and fourth
stylelevels: level one: (awareness) - basic browsing and searching by
individuals or small groups to find specific information. this level constitutes
basic awareness of what is available and how to become a self-directed life-long
learner. level two: (adoption) - self-publishing on the world wide web by
creating graphical web pages using both internet graphics and information as
well as original
http://www.oingo.com/topic/20/20406.html
oingo: "knowledge flow and communities of practice"
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downloadable academic publications of paul hildreth, university of york. communities
of practice: performance and evolution by
bernardo a. huberman and tad hogg. a detailed model of collaboration in communities
of practice and we examine its dynamical
consequences for the group as a whole. full text of study downloadable as
postscript file. community in the workplace
describes an anthology of essays about community
building in the workplace, written by a virtual community
of community-builders. information on knowledge management and communities
of practice provides links to sources of
information on knowledge management and communities
of practice knowledge alliances communities
of practice knowledge exchange. driving sales,
service and innovation through communities of practice.
knowledge management research at
http://www.odnetwork.org/odponline/vol32n4/knowledgenets.html
~ od practitioner online - vol. 32 / no. 4 ~
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relationships. in my own practice i apply social
network analysis methodologies to surface patterns of interaction and help guide
development of communities. • community
formation. working with communities and knowledge
networks is different from working with project teams or intact working groups. communities
have looser bonds and are focused less on a particular task than they are on
overall development of their field of expertise. facilitating community
development, however, is a natural role for people with a solid background in od.
etienne wenger’s groundbreaking book communities
of practice lays out a solid theoretical
foundation for understanding the dynamics of practice
communities. we can anticipate that there will be
a growing body of thought and practice in this
area and it offers great opportunity for practitioners to
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communities of practice and organizational performance
cops
social capital necessary to achieve these goals. in addition, a second challenge
is the development of measures that can guide and link the social capital
building activities with actual business outcomes. management actions. although
a full examination of the activities that can influence the development of
social capital is beyond the scope of this paper, our results suggest a number
of potential interventions that can benefit communities
of practice. provide opportunities for
individuals to make new connections. there are a number of ways that firms can
enable community members to make connections with
one another. one method is to sponsor face-to-face events, such as knowledge
fairs, training sessions, and other activities designed to introduce individuals
with each other and the work they are currently involved
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/404/gongla.html
evolving communities of practice: ibm global services experience
cops
stage community was able to weather a major
organization change with the community not only
intact but seemingly even stronger. the ability to align the community
to the changing business direction, while maintaining its unique identity,
demonstrated the ability of members of a community
to pool knowledge and work together to address business issues—characteristics
of a community in the active stage. the same community
was able to assimilate new members from a firm acquired by ibm. another community
was able to support a rapid expansion of the practices
that used their domain of knowledge. they were all able to establish alliances
with other knowledge network communities in
related competencies. they invited other communities
to participate in their “sharenets.” they coached other evolving knowledge
network community core
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~vanhouse/situated.html
submitted to jasis social informatics -- the situated nature of information
cops
that affect practice; people s work practices
affect how technology is designed and used. learning is integral to situated
activity (chaiklin and lave, 1993). learning is not simply the acquisition of a
body of knowledge, but an on-going process that affects the individual, the community,
the practice, and the knowledge. newcomers learn
by participating in practice. the learner, the
"master" or teacher, the community, the
practice, and the shared understanding are all
affected by the process of learning. the community
of practice is perpetuated and transformed by the
learning process. communities an important
context for practice, learning, and the creation
of meaning is the community of practice,
the community engaged in shared practices,
a "set of relations among persons, action, and world over time" (lave
and wenger, 1991). communities of
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understanding organizations as learning systems
cops
investment funds group and themarketing groups. at electricite de france, we
observed and interviewedemployees in the nuclear power operations. at fiat, we
observed and interviewed employees in thedirezione technica (engineering
division) in torino, italy. a. strauss, qualitative analysis for social
scientists (cambridge: cambridge university press, 1987). for a discussion of
"communities of practice"
see: j.s. brownand p. puguid, "organizational learning and communities
of practice,organization science 2 (1991): 40-57.
argyris and schön (1978). w.h. schmidt and j.p. finnegan, the race without a
finish line: america s quest for total quality (san francisco: jossey-bass,1992).
for the idea of the factory as a learning laboratory, see: d. leonard-barton,"the
factory as a learning laboratory," sloan management
http://www.strategicinitiatives.com/projects/creating/create.html
creating learning communities and communities of practice
cops
in developing communities that use technology to
maintain perpetual interactivity. we have successfully built and maintained such
communities of reflective practitioners in
colleges and universities professional societies and trade associations,
corporate settings. in the knowledge age, this capacity will be a core
competency of successful organizations. replacing governance with communities
of practice -- american health information
management association -- 1999 e-business based on communities
of practice -- museum store association -- 1999
member interactivity-based community of practice
-- calcpa -- 1997-1999 learning-based community
of practice -- major research university -- 1999
publications-driven community of practice
-- major medical association -- 1999 e-commerce based community
of practice -- retail sales asociation –
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fastcounter by bcentral this catalog contains resources about communities
of practice. you willalso want to see our
organizational learningcatalog.books communities
of practice: learning, meaning, and identity (wegner)
ecologies of knowledge: work and politics in science and technology (star)
generalist practice with organizations and communities
(kirst-ashman hull) placemaking: the art and practice
of building communities (schneekloth shibley)
situated learning: legitimate peripheral participation (lave wenger) talking
about machines: an
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evolution of online community
cops
flow of discourse and collaboration that is characteristic of professional practice
(hardin & ziebarth, 1996; schlager & schank, 1997; cothrel &
williams, 1999; murray, 1999). it is not that web sites or discussion boards are
inappropriate or unnecessary; they are simply insufficient to achieve the
desired objectives of ongoing professional discourse - a listserv or newsgroup,
no matter how well-trafficked, is not a community
of practice. ti, too, suffers from technological
gaps and limitations, and we are working hard to integrate new capabilities into
the environment (see schank, fenton, schlager, & fusco, in press). however,
we believe that lack of an appropriate technological infrastructure is only part
of the problem. the more severe problems stem from a lack of understanding of
how to employ on-line technology to achieve tpd
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communities of practice
cops
author of an influential book on learning organizations, "communities
of practice develop around things that matter to
people. as a result, their practices reflect the
members own understanding of what is important. obviously, outside constraints
or directives can influence this understanding, but even then, members develop practices
that are their own response to these external influences. even when a community
s actions conform to an external mandate, it is the community
— not the mandate — that produces the practice."
to help communities of practice
grow and flourish, fhwa is providing models — the well-established rumble
strips community is a prime example — and
technical support for communities of practice.
web-enabled software can offer online discussion, both real-time and
asynchronous; document sharing and storage;
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overview: community of practice literature
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mailing lists but whose answers can the information seeker trust? for
professional knowledge workers trust tends to be based on demonstrated
competence. while outside certification and reputation help, nothing succeeds
more than demonstrated competence. building such trust takes contact,
communication, time, and certification from others you trust (from your local community
of practice, for example) that the individual
giving the answer comes from a sound background with demonstrated competence.
because of the public and shared communication of written messages on a listserv,
others can quickly and easily comment on and add to any given answer. even
without face-to-face contact, regular readers of a listserv will come to judge
the competence of frequent contributors by the perceived reasonableness of their
answers and by
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search results for communities of practice
cops
huberman and tad hogg. a detailed model of collaboration in communities
of practice and we examine its dynamical
consequences for the group as a whole. full text of study downloadable as
postscript file. found by: open directory project, fast search (alltheweb.com),
lycos, netscape netcenter http://www.parc.xerox.com/istl/groups/iea/www/communities.html
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of practice knowledge exchange. driving sales,
service and innovation through communities of practice.
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communities of practice (cop s) have been around since, at least, the age of the
european guilds. in fact, some of the
http://www.xpresspress.com/news/tomoye_071101.html
tomoye introduces knowledge sharing platform for communities of practice--
simplify already in use at world bank, united nations and other leading
international organizations
cops
tomoye s president and ceo. "knowledge intensive organizations looking to
optimize their productivity now have a compelling alternative to expensive and
time-consuming custom solutions." about simplify: simplify lets managers at
the hub of knowledge networks rapidly create collaborative environments that
connect and engage. information sharing, meaningful knowledge accumulation and
distribution are radically simplified. architected for communities
of practice and knowledge networks simplify was
first developed for one of the world s largest international ngos (non-governmental
organization) to address the specific needs of 15,000 researchers and policy
makers from around the world. it unifies previously disjoint communication and
collaboration efforts in an integrated, engaging knowledge management
environment that is easy to use and
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