Archive for the 'Communities of Practice' Category

Sep 16 2009

iSimulate as a nexus for a CoP of economists

Cross posted from Nancy’s blog
I’ve been doing a  series of podcast conversations on my Full Circle blog about the use of social media in international development. As I was recording  this week’s with Gauresh Rajadhyaksh, I realized I was talking to a type of technology steward and I should cross post here on the [...]

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Aug 28 2009

Making webinar software more open

I’ve always found webinar software like WebEx, Elluminate, or GoToMeeting to be constraining and, because they try to be a “total solution” they don’t play well with other uses or software. Because they’re popular they’re used in situations where they’re inappropriate. The Digital Habitats wiki, for example, doesn’t go into enough detail about [...]

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Apr 09 2009

Technology Stewardship and Unexpected Uses

Crossposted from my Full Circle Blog
I was cruising through my blog reader, hopelessly “behind” in reading (my own construction – I know I can “mark all read!”) and came upon a post from Vic Desotelle who pointed to a TED talk on Compassion which somehow lead me to a Garr Reynolds post about a TED [...]

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Apr 02 2009

Digital Habitats Community Orientation Spidergram Activity

Cross posted from Nancy’s Blog
A couple of people have asked me for more materials related to the Community Orientations Spidergram activity. I have embedded them into some slides now up … Digital Habitats Community Orientation Spidergram Activity.
Here is a hint I should have shared earlier. The “context” orientation is a bit odd on the spidergram. [...]

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Mar 28 2009

Red-Tails in Love: Birdwatchers as a community of practice

(Crossposted from my Full Circle blog)
My friend Sue Wolff generously lent me two books recently. The first, Marie Winn’s “Red-Tails in Love” captured my heart and mind. It is the story of a community of birdwatchers in Central Park in New York City and how they observed, loved and obsessed over a family of Red-Tailed [...]

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Dec 05 2008

Last minute revisions

January 1st, 2009 has been the target publication date for the book for a while, but that now seems to be slipping.  We’re working as hard as we can on type faces and layout details and all of that.  At the same time we’re using chapters of the book in a CPsquare workshop called “Connected [...]

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Apr 18 2008

Connected Futures workshop

We’re wrapping up our plans and materials for our new workshop, developed and presented by Beth Kanter, Beverly Trayner, Bronwyn Stuckey, Etienne Wenger, John D. Smith, Nancy White, Nick Noakes, Shawn Callahan, Shirley Williams, and Susanne Nyrop.It includes a lot of modeling of learning interactions, stratagems, and tactics using a dozen different social technologies.
We’re [...]

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Feb 29 2008

Technology classification schemes live on

I ran across this slide in a larger deck used by a colleague to deal with a set of technology decisions for the communities of practice in her company:

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Apart from the way that Etienne’s classification scheme has been modified slightly to be relevant to the issues on the table, [...]

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Dec 23 2005

Tracking our Research Bookmarks

Over the course of this project, I have been bookmarking sites via http://www.furl.net and http://del.icio.us – social bookmarking tools. I’ve did not develop too much tagging discipline until I was a ways into the project and have not cleaned up all my tags. Time is a cruel mistress. The tags I’ve been using include: techreport [...]

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