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- SearchCoP: a Yahoo group
- This 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 [...]
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No related posts. - Community launch from an event
- Thinking about a community birth process which I’ve just witnessed during August, it seems appropriate to try and generalise and seek further applications. A month long training course, open and free to attend, generates a momentum of interest, good will, and community indicators. “what are we going to do when it’s all over?” “I’m really going to [...]
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Related posts: - July 4th Wiki Wednesday
- Another London Wiki Wednesday last night, and a good one too. This time hosted by Bearing Point in Paternoster Square. Tiddlywiki was on show again, this time with a quick prototype of an app for setting up VOIP connections in the form of “speedgeeking” which was chaotic as intended. I spoke on ‘the importance of [...]
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Related posts: - Collecting tips for online facilitators and moderators
- Like a previous post, ( and this one and this one ), this is another blog post inspired by conversation on a listserv (email discussion group). The discussion was sparked off originally by a request for advice on dealing with repeated disruption in an online community. The e-Mint community responded with some suggestions, including technological measures. [...]
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Related posts: - Talking about wages is not the same as price fixing
- My friend Miguel read the discussion in the online facilitation listserv and decided to note it on his blog rather than reply there, which is fair enough. I do that sometimes. eme ká eme Price-fixing and communities of practice. This week there was an exchange that ended thus: On 21/06/07, Elissa Perry wrote: I belong to [...]
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Related posts: - The Augmented Social Network
- I found this in my draft posts. The Augmented Social Network Like the Web or email, the ASN would be available to anyone. It would become a common part of the Internet infrastructure ? a person-centered and group-centered service of the net. It will be implemented through the widespread adoption of technical protocols; any online community infrastructure [...]
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Related posts: - Cognitive Edge: Hubert?s error
- Dave Snowden provides a strong response to two comments made by Hubert St Onge ( one of the authors of an important modern book about communities of practice ) 1. That Blogs and Wikis are publishing tools not collaboration tools, and in the case of blogs the publishing is individualistic/egotistical. [...]
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No related posts. - On Barn Raising again
- Earlier barn raising Back in March this year, I was frantically running various exhibitions, gathering data and writing up reports for the degree course from which I graduate this week. Part of that was a Barn Raising event, which is explained here and here and here or view search results here . We didn’t [...]
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Related posts: - Two interesting studies in progress
- I was asked by Warren Crosbie if I know of any papers which refer to any relation between Communities of Practice and Folksonomy. Warren himself, has an advanced wikispace called Tagunity. I knew that Linda Hartley had researched folksonomy more than me, and she came up with a link to “The Medium is the Message” as [...]
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No related posts. - Prato Dialogue
- This Prato dialogue is taking place here in Florence, now. Photos etc to follow, meanwhile here’s the link to the Blog http://pratodialogue.wordpress.com/ addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fdistributedresearch.net%2Fblog%2F2006%2F10%2F07%2Fprato-dialogue'; addthis_title = 'Prato+Dialogue'; addthis_pub = 'aroberts'; Thanks for subscribing to Andy Roberts blog Prato Dialogue No related posts.
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No related posts. - When moderation goes wrong
- Another insightful discussion has broken out in the onlinefacilitation yahoogroup, and it’s great that the messages there are public facing, so that I can provide direct hyperlinks into individual messages which blog readers can visit without having to register or anything. Beverley Trayner initiated the thread with a question about who owns posts. Bev later elaborates on [...]
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Related posts: - A grumble about Yahoogroups
- Email groups are a simple form of many-to-many communication which have been in use since before the www , in parallel with usenet and early bulletin boards. They remain the principal community tool for many communities of practice, interest groups, support communites and so on. This is a grumble about one particular egroups [...]
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Related posts: - Drupal learning project
- drupal.png Drupal is an open source content management system (cms), with perhaps a lot of potential for distributed communites, online learning and knowlege management. The underlying design appears to be extremely flexibile and modular but there is a certain learning curve involved in installation, setup, configuration, administration and maintenance. If you’re interested in travelling along [...]
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Related posts: - Control in blogs and communities (and flickr)
- Joistke adds some important points in the blogging and communities discussion: I think blogs simply add a lot of potential to thought development within a community of practice. Eg. if you did not have a blog, I wouldn?t have a clue what you were busy with or thinking about! Forums may seem more controllable, but they [...]
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Related posts: - Social Tagging
- Beth Kanter has deepened her exploration and explanation of tagging as a community phenomenon in a series of blog articles. In this one, a link is made with learning styles and Myers-Briggs personality types: Beth’s Blog: Why do some people love the discovery aspect of tagging and others don’t? See also: Beth’s Blog: Social Analysis of Tagging: How Tagging [...]
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Related posts: - Online CoP meets face to face
- Several of the members of the ukcider community have met each other on past occasions, but last Saturday was for me, the first significant ukcider face to face event, with seven cidermakers and enthusiasts gathering in Rose’s orchard in Dorset. You can see the photos and read more about the blossomtime celebrations and cider tasting, [...]
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Related posts: - Research proposal
- A discussion has ensued across three email lists following a question asked about Charters for Communities of Practice. It’s all mixed up really, with the thorny question of trying to agree what constitutes a CoP, since some people will view a charter as totally contrary to the spirit of a flat hierarchical group while others [...]
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No related posts. - Researching the Classroom Displays Blog
- Rather than just supply critical feedback to each other’s research, Linda Hartley suggested we might write each other’s conclusions, based on the idea that somebody other than the researcher closest to the research, may be in a better position to see some of the impact and draw conclusions. So these are my conclusions from Linda’s [...]
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Related posts: - Meanwhile, in another place..
- While my focus has been on the exhibition and barn raising for DARnet, there have been some important developments over at ukcider. Quietly on Saturday, the wiki cider pub guide count passsed the 600 mark. This represents a quantitative move beyond the scope that any printed guide has managed to achieve, as well as being more [...]
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Related posts: - Significant learning from the CP2 web2.0 workshop
- In this blog I am documenting some of the most easily identifiable learning “take aways” from the recent CP2 web2.0 workshop. As a prelude, I must mention that the most significant thing is of course the community itself, both longer term hosts and temporary guests, all of whom I found to be genuinely open and welcoming [...]
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