Comments on: SearchCoP: a Yahoo group http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2007/10/07/searchcop-a-yahoo-group Distributed Action Research, communities of practice and social objects by Andy Roberts Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:25:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Andy Roberts http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2007/10/07/searchcop-a-yahoo-group#comment-5949 Andy Roberts Sat, 13 Oct 2007 10:32:14 +0000 http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2007/10/07/searchcop-a-yahoo-group#comment-5949 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. 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.

]]> By: Seth Earley http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2007/10/07/searchcop-a-yahoo-group#comment-5943 Seth Earley Sat, 13 Oct 2007 04:25:43 +0000 http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2007/10/07/searchcop-a-yahoo-group#comment-5943 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 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

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