There is a reason why sometimes I work with my door closed. It is not to be mean, it is not to be anti social. It is because I need to think. While I’m all for spontaneous meetings when needed, people need to be more respectful of people’s work space.
About a year ago, I [...]
Continue Reading →From 2 of the leading researchers and writers on Communities of Practice comes this new study that studies the health and impact of online communities.
I absolutely can’t wait to get my hands on this research! Until then, here are a few blurbs from their article:
Though in-house networks of experts—or “communities of practice”—were once [...]
Continue Reading →Lilia Efimova’s diagram clearly illustrates how a Community of practice distinguishes itself from a work team in that it goes beyond the structured boundaries of the team to seek out others with a common class of problems. That said, it is still semi-structured in that it is not driven by a common pursuit of solutions.
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Continue Reading →Dr. Jacques Bughin of McKinsey & Company throws a question to how are organizations stimulating an influx of content. My own response to this question is the following.
One of the keys to pulling content from readers and turning them into participants is by asking relevant questions. For example, this particular blog post ends with [...]
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Kristina Schneider is organizational learning and performance technologist, merging instructional and systems technology with knowledge, project and operations management. 
Her book Edublogging: a qualitative study of training and development bloggers investigates the value of edublogging as a form of self-directed learning and its potential contribution to communities of practice.
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