COPs Links

From Dar

Here are a bunch of links accumulated and then abandoned by various people including

http://coponline.blogspot.com/2004/12/resources-and-links.html

Web Links

Online Community Toolkit http://www.fullcirc.com/community/communitymanual.htm

Online Networks in VET Toolkit http://wwwtafe.lib.rmit.edu.au/onlinet/

Why Lurkers Lurk http://snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca/~nonnecke/research/whylurk.pdf

Virtual Communities of Practice as Learning Networks by Stephan Ullen, Donna Ure and Stephen Evans from the Brigham Young University http://www.masie.com/researchgrants/2003/BY_Final_Report.pdf

On the Road to Community by Marlene Manto http://members.ozemail.com.au/~marleman/index.html

The following are rescources posted into the 'Cop it Sweet' online forum by Robyn Jay.

Seven Steps to Building Electronic Communities by Philippa Gamse and Terry Grunwald http://www.cyberspeaker.com/sevensteps.html

Design Principles for Online Communitiesby Peter Kollock http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/kollock/papers/design.htm

How Online Social Networks Benefit Organizations by Lisa Kimball and Howard Rheingold http://www.rheingold.com/Associates/onlinenetworks.html

Building Online Communities: Transforming Assumptions Into Success by Victoria Bernal http://www.benton.org/publibrary/practice/community/goals

Preliminary Heuristics for the Design and Evaluation of Online Communities of Practice Systems by Mark Notess and Josh Plaskoff http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage/sub_page.cfm?section=4&list_item=8&page=1

Practice Guide: Techniques for Engaging with Membersby Tim Pickles http://www.sift.co.uk/practice/guides/participation.doc

Nine Principles for Making Virtual Communities Work http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.06/vc.principles.html

http://home.att.net/~discon/KM/CoPs.htm Communities of Practice (CoP): Home Page

http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/knowledge_management/km2/cop_toolkit.asp Communities of practice - KM toolkit: inventory of tools and inventory of techniques. Knowledge Management, Volume 3 Issue 2, Oct 1999

http://www.sethkahan.com/Resources_0IdentifyingCommunities.html Identifying communities of practice knowledge management World Bank

http://dmoz.org/Reference/Knowledge_Management/Knowledge_Flow/Communities_of_Practice Open Directory - Reference: Knowledge Management: Knowledge Flow Provides links to sources of information on knowledge management and communities of practice.

http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~kimble/teaching/hi-2/topic_8.html Knowledge Management and Communities of Practice Sources of information on Knowledge Management and Communities of Practice

http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~kimble/teaching/Sogn_og_Fjordane/KM_and_CoPs.html Knowledge Management and Communities of Practice: the relationship between Communities of Practice and Knowledge Management.

http://www.knowledgeboard.com/download/3990/Knowledge-management-as-a-doughnut.pdf Knowledge management as a doughnut: Shaping your knowledge

http://www.epsscentral.info/knowledgebase/articles/organizationallearning Organizational learning and communities-of-practice — EPSScentral.INFO

http://www.business.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/reflect/stories/little.pdf Building and Maintaining Distributed Communities of Practice Knowledge Management in the OUBS MBA. Stephen Little, Wendy Fowle and Paul Quintas

http://www.theenergyforum.com/presentations/files/LGeorge%20laguros_spe042004.pdf Putting the Community in Community of Practice

http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=83980&d=pnd KM Bibliography: Communities of Practice, Collaborative tools

http://www.stevedenning.com/communities_knowledge_management.html Establishing communities of practice for knowledge management

http://home.att.net/~discon/KM/CoPReadings.htm Communities of Practice (CoP): Selected Readings

http://www.odnetwork.org/odponline/vol32n4/knowledgenets.html OD Practitioner Online - Vol. 32 / No. 4 (2000) Knowledge creation and sharing through building communities of practice

http://www.i-know.at/en/conference/i-know03/presentations/cop/Droschl_CoP.pdf (Some\) Relief for Communities of Practice: Knowledge Management KM and e-Learning. 2. © 2003

http://www.royalroads.ca/Channels/for+learners/divisions+centres+and+schools/science+technology+and+environment/diplomas+and+certificates/km+diploma+curriculum.htm KM 510 Strategies and Foundations of Knowledge Management (2) ... KM 650 Communities of Practice (4). Provides an overview of communities of practice

http://www.icohere.com/webcommunities_practice.htm Community of Practice & Knowledge Management (KM) Software Tools Providing web community software and collaboration tools for building online communities of practice (CoPs) and knowledge management (KM

http://ssrn.com/abstract=634642 SSRN-Communities of Practice: Going One Step Too Far?

http://www.sethkahan.com/Resources_0EWenger.html storytelling knowledge management meaning building community caring Communities of Practice in Internal Knowledge Management.

http://www.elearningeuropa.info/doc.php?lng=3&id=1483&doclng=1 The Knowledge Management Manifesto: Why KM requires community-building.

The following were offered by Rosanna Tarsiero on the ComPrac list:

http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/cop/rreading.shtml

http://www.cuadratura.com/k-now-int/publics.html

http://www.ciresearch.net/conferences/papers.php?first_letter=all&cf=4

http://sites.inka.de/manzanita/dissertation/biblio_COP.htm

http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=129030&d=101&h=0&f=0&dateformat=%o%20%B%20%Y

http://coponline.blogspot.com/2004/12/resources-and-links.html

http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/cop/lss.shtml

http://openacademy.mindef.gov.sg/OpenAcademy/Central/HTML%20Folder/KM/bcp/resource_biblio.htm

http://facilitatedsystems.com/pubs.html

http://www.cyberspeaker.com/sevensteps.html

http://journal.planetwork.net/article.php?lab=miller0704

http://www.informatics.nhs.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=689

Whether it is barn-raising or crafting a business plan, humans are among the few creatures that are able to work well cooperatively. According to an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, our success at cooperation results from three distinct personality types.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/?newsid=19115

Communities of Practice: Some sources of information Second edition. June 2004 (also available as downloadable PDF) http://www.intranetfocus.com/intranets/communities.html

A comparison of the features of communities of practice, with comparisons with affinity networks, project teams and learning communities can be found on the iCohere site http://www.icohere.com/Collaboration_Models.pdf

An example of a World Bank community http://www.worldbank.org/devforum/comm_partnering.html

A comprehensive literature review on Communities of Practice and Organisational Learning by Elisabeth Davenport and Hazel Hall appears in Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Volume 36. ISBN 1-57387-131-1 Information Today Inc. New Jersey. http://www.infotoday.com. Hazel Hall has also published numerous papers on information sharing in online environments, many of which are posted as full-text resources available from http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~hazelh/esis/hazel_publications.html. Edited versions of the chapters of Hazel Hall's 2004 PhD thesis on the role of the intranet in knowledge sharing are also accessible from this URL.

Another notable paper is Information Exchange in Virtual Communities: A Typology by Gary Burnett , published in Information Research, Volume 5 No. 4, July 2000 at http://informationR.net/ir/5-4/paper82.html which has an excellent bibliography including many web references.

A review of collaborative IT applications is given by Georgia Bafousta and Gregoris Mentzas their paper Review and functional classification of collaborative systems , published in International Journal of Information Management, August 2002, 22(4), 281-305. http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ijinfomgt/

Interesting Examples

43 things: light-hearted community around the intention to floss more regularly http://www.voght.com/cgi-bin/pywiki?DistributedCopsLinks

Books

Brook, T and Wall, S (2001) Tutoring Online, CIT Solutions. Canberra.

Chayko, M (2002) Connecting: how we form social bonds and communities in the internet age. SUNY Press

Collison, C., and Parcell, G, Learning to Fly, John Wiley and Sons 2004 http://www.wiley.com (ISBN 1-84112-124-X)

Unlocking Knowledge Assets by Susan Conway and Char Silgar, published by Microsoft Press in 2002. The Microsoft sales pitch is almost invisible. (ISBN0-7356-1463-6)

Building the Knowledge Management Network by Cliff Figallo and Nancy Rhine, published by Wiley in 2002 (ISBN 0-471-21549-X)

Hinds, P.J and Kiesler S (2002) Distributed Work. Cambridge: MIT Press

Kim, Amy Jo (2000) Community Building on the Web: Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press

Knowledge Management – Lessons Learned, edited by Michael Koenig and Kanti Srikantaiah and published by Information Today Inc on behalf of ASIS&T in 2004 (ISBN 1-57387-181-8)

Creativity in Virtual Teams by Jill Nemiro, published by Pfeiffer( a Wiley imprint) in 2004 (ISBN 0-7879-7114-6).

Pratt, K & Palloff, R.M (2003). The Virtual Student. A Profile and guide to Working with Online Learners. San Fransisco, CA: Jossey-B

Preece, J (2000) Online Communities: Designing Usability and Supporting Sociability, John Wiley & Sons.

Saint-Onge, Hubert & Debra Wallace (2003) Leveraging Communities of Practice for Strategic Advantage. New York: Butterworth-Heinemann.

Salmon, G (2002) e-Tivities: the Key to Active Online Learning, Sterling, VA, USA: Kogan Page

Salmon, G (2000) e-Moderating, Sterling, VA USA:Kogan Page

Surowiecki, J (2004) The Wisdom of Crowds. Doubleday

Wenger, E., McDermott, R., and Snyder, WM (2002) Cultivating Communities of Practice. Harvard Business School Press.

Reports/Articles

Networking and the National Training System by John Mitchell and Susan Young (Reframing the Future Project Core Ideas report 2002)

Effectively Structuring Communities of Practice in VET by John Mitchell March 2003 (Reframing the Future project report 2003).

Learning Communities for Social Change in Forums on the Web by Janet Burstall. Adult Learning Australia, July 2000.

Learning Around Town: Learning Communities in Australia by Liz Henderson, Rachel Castles, Majella McGrath and Tony Brown. Adult Learning Australia October 2000.