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
On-Line Books and Papers by Hildreth and Kimble
Knowledge Networks: Innovation through Communities of Practice http://www.chris-kimble.com/KNICOP/ToC.html
Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators http://www.chris-kimble.com/CLEE/ToC.html
Computer Mediated Communications and Communities of Practice http://www.chris-kimble.com/Publications/Documents/Hildreth_1998.pdf
Communities of Practice: Going Virtual http://www.chris-kimble.com/Publications/Documents/Kimble_2001b.pdf
Communities of Practice in the Distributed International Environment http://uk.arxiv.org/ftp/cs/papers/0101/0101012.pdf
The duality of knowledge http://informationr.net/ir/8-1/paper142.html
By Robyn Jay
The following are resources posted into the 'Cop it Sweet' on-line forum by Robyn Jay.
Seven Steps to Building Electronic Communities by Philippa Gamse and Terry Grunwald http://www.cyberspeaker.com/sevensteps.html
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
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://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.chris-kimble.com/Courses/hi-2/topic_8.html Knowledge Management and Communities of Practice Sources of information on Knowledge Management and Communities of Practice
http://www.chris-kimble.com/Courses/mis/Communities_of_Practice.html Communities of Practice and Distributed Working
http://www.epsscentral.info/knowledgebase/articles/organizationallearning Organizational learning and communities-of-practice — EPSScentral.INFO
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.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.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://coponline.blogspot.com/2004/12/resources-and-links.html
http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/cop/lss.shtml
http://facilitatedsystems.com/pubs.html
http://www.cyberspeaker.com/sevensteps.html
http://journal.planetwork.net/article.php?lab=miller0704
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
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.
