All tagged CoP
Are there different types of communities? And does that suggest that we have to approach them differently in terms of community management?
Just because someone doesn't actively participate (talk) in their community, this doesn't mean that the person and the community don't benefit.
Stan Garfield posted an interesting Communities Manifesto that describes 10 principles of communities and goes some way toward differentiating between teams and communities.
Communities and Communties of Practice, are they related? Are they different?
I came across "How to measure effect of communities at the macro level?" by Mukund Mohan at the same time that I've been thinking about the reasons organizations look into communities. These ideas fit together nicely.
Is there a connection between blogging and communities? I gave a presentation on this topic recently, and this is what I had to say.
Tim Thomas contacted me in regards cultivating communities of practice for people in the natural sciences, biologists in particular.
During the CPSquare conference on Web 2.0 and Communities of Practice , someone referenced Barn Raising as a means for the initial build-out on a wiki. What a nice way to think about building a community-needed structure.
Christian Wagner discusses the problems with knowledge acquisition and suggests that wikis in combination with communities might be a solution for knowledge acquisition where more formal processes have failed.
Shawn Callahan at Anecdote mentions that "Chip Goodyear says $8.5B profit partly due to communities of practice efforts."