Mar 14 2010
You probably already know that Skype is a great tool – especially for community leaders. If you are a technology steward, it’s not only a great tool but it’s also a handy example for illustrating some of the use and integration issues that we have to deal with and be able to talk about.
To [...]
Sep 10 2009
In considering whether to take the Foundations of Communities of Practice workshop, a PhD student in the healthcare field wrote asking whether the workshop would be useful to her, given what she was doing:
I am going to examine what [communities of practice are already there in an academic health care setting] …. or as I [...]
Jul 21 2009
Yesterday someone on the staff of the Inter-American Development Bank asked an interesting question on com-prac:
Could you please share with me what the practices (and or policies) regarding the “housing” of CoPs in your organizations are? Do you house them outside the firewall of your organization? Does your organization endorse officially this external sites when [...]
Jan 14 2009
My work as a tech steward and community leader involves dealing with a lot of little sets of data that comes from different sources. As our communities live on more and more different platforms, for example, it becomes a messier and more complicated job to keep track of who’s on which platform, and we often [...]
Jul 28 2008
Several months ago, Diana Larsen presented her work on Agile Retrospectives at ODN. I bought the book on the spot. And later I watched this video where Diana and her co-author talk at the Googleplex:
In this day and age, when so many forums on a favored topic are sold as communities of [...]
