SearchCoP: a Yahoo group October 7, 2007
Posted by Andy Roberts in : COP , trackbackThis may be of interest to at least two different sections of my readership. Those interested in search engines, intranets, and those who care about communities of practice.
I wonder how many practice communities would include the acronym “CoP” in the group name though, apart from the meta ones. But why not.
SearchCoP: a Yahoo group about intranet search « interviews with content managers and other IT professionals
SearchCoP: a Yahoo group about intranet search
October 6th, 2007In June 2007, Seth Earley and Avi Rappaport founded the Search Community of Pracitice (SearchCoP) Yahoo Group
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Hi there - nice to see that folks are picking up on the new Search list that Avi Rappaport and I founded. To your point of “CoP” in the name - this is just a indication of my lack of creativity and inability to come up with anything interesting. When I founded a CoP on organizational network analysis and proposed ONACoP - the co founder called this a “dreadful name”. I can’t really argue with that! (We ended up with ONA-PRAC for ONA Practitioners… The other CoP I founded was for taxonomies and my pet peeve is when people refer to it as Taxocop as oposed to Taxo C-O-P… Again - lack of creativity on my part and simply a matter of getting a url up there.
I certainly welcome suggestions for a better name!
Seth Earley
Founder SearchCoP
Thanks Seth, well there’s always the old “I am a……..” test. If a group of people can be linked by identifying with a sort of job title, then it has potential to become a community of practice. Do you call yourselves “Search Engineers” perhaps? If so then that would be a good candidate for naming the group. Similarly “taxonomists” as a group name might be a suggestion.