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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 … Read The Full Article --->>

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SearchCoP: a Yahoo group

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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, … Read The Full Article --->>

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Community launch from an event

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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 … Read The Full Article --->>

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July 4th Wiki Wednesday

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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 … Read The Full Article --->>

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Collecting tips for online facilitators and moderators

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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 … Read The Full Article --->>

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Talking about wages is not the same as price fixing

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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 … Read The Full Article --->>

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The Augmented Social Network

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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, … Read The Full Article --->>

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Cognitive Edge: Hubert’s error

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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 … Read The Full Article --->>

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On Barn Raising again

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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 … Read The Full Article --->>

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Two interesting studies in progress

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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/ Thanks for subscribing to Andy Roberts blogPrato Dialogue Related posts:After the Prato Dialogue German Edublogs Assessment assessment – … Read The Full Article --->>

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Prato Dialogue

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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 … Read The Full Article --->>

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When moderation goes wrong

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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, … Read The Full Article --->>

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A grumble about Yahoogroups

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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 … Read The Full Article --->>

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Drupal learning project

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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 … Read The Full Article --->>

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Control in blogs and communities (and flickr)

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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 … Read The Full Article --->>

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Social Tagging

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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. … Read The Full Article --->>

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Online CoP meets face to face

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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 … Read The Full Article --->>

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Research proposal

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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 … Read The Full Article --->>

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Researching the Classroom Displays Blog

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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 … Read The Full Article --->>

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Meanwhile, in another place..

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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 … Read The Full Article --->>

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Significant learning from the CP2 web2.0 workshop

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