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Etienne Wenger, Nancy White, John D Smith (2009) Digital Habitats Technology has changed what it means for communities to 'be together.' Digital tools are now part of most communities' habitats. This book develops a new literacy and language to describe the practice of stewarding technology for communities. Whether you want to ground your technology stewardship in theory and deepen your practice, whether you are a community leader or sponsor who wants to understand how communities and technology intersect, or whether you just want practical advice, this is the book for you. - Communities of practice -

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Etienne Wenger (1999) Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity This book presents a theory of learning that starts with the assumption that engagement in social practice is the fundamental process by which we get to know what we know and by which we become who we are. The primary unit of analysis of this process is neither the individual nor social institutions, but the informal 'communities of practice' that people form as they pursue shared enterprises over time. To give a social account of learning, the theory explores in a systematic way the intersection of issues of community, social practice, meaning, and identity. The result is a broad framework for thinking about learning as a process of social participation. This ambitious but thoroughly accessible framework has relevance for the practitioner as well as the theoretician, presented with all the breadth, depth, and rigor necessary to address such a complex and yet profoundly human topic. - Communities of practice -

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Hubert Saint-Onge and Debra Wallace (2003) Leveraging Communities of Practice for Strategic Advantage How can you build a successful community of practice that is integrally linked to your company's strategic vision? Learn from the first-hand experience of Hubert Saint-Onge, recognized by "Fortune" magazine as a leader in the field of knowledge capital, and co-author Debra Wallace, the people responsible for a recent project to establish a community of practice for independent agents at Clarica Life Insurance Company, voted one of the most admired knowledge enterprises in the world by practitioners and researchers. "Leveraging Communities of Practice for Strategic Advantage" combines theory and practice to outline a model for developing successful communities of practice and proposes a direction for establishing communities of practice as an integral part of the organizational structure. Saint-Onge and Wallace relate what worked, what didn't, and why as they tell the story from inception through implementation to assessment. Whether you're developing communities of practice or want to learn how to leverage existing communities for strategic gain, this book provides you with everything you need to launch successful communities of practice in your organization. - Communities of practice -

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David Barton and Karin Tusting (2005) Beyond Communities of Practice: Language Power and Social Context The concept of ‘communities of practice’ (Lave and Wenger 1991, Wenger 1998) has become an influential one in education, management, and social sciences in recent years. This book consists of a series of studies by linguists and educational researchers, examining and developing aspects of the concept which have remained relatively unexplored. Framings provided by theories of language-in-use, literacy practices, and discourse extend the concept, bringing to light issues around conflict, power, and the significance of the broader social context which have been overlooked. Chapters assess the relationship between communities of practice and other theories including literacy studies, critical language studies, the ethnography of communication, socio-cultural activity theory, and sociological theories of risk. Domains of empirical research reported include schools, police stations, adult basic education, higher education, and multilingual settings. The book highlights the need to incorporate thinking around language-in-use, power and conflict, and social context into communities of practice. - Communities of practice -

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Chris Kimble and Paul Hildreth (2008) Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators, Volume 1 The aim of this set of books is to combine the best of current academic research into the use of Communities of Practice in education with "hands on" practitioner experience in order to provide teachers and academics with a convenient source of guidance and an incentive to work with and develop in their own Communities of Practice. This set of books is divided into two volumes: volume 1 deals principally with the issues found in colocated Communities of Practice, while volume 2 deal principally with distributed Communities of Practice" - Communities of practice -

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Jason Hughes, Nick Jewson, and Lorna Unwin (2006) Communities of Practice: Critical Perspectives "Communities of practice" has become an increasingly influential model of learning, organization and creativity, and is informing current debates about learning processes, managerial control of organizational knowledge, and general and vocational education. This benchmark text provides an accessible yet critical introduction to the theory and application of communities of practice and their use in a diverse range of managerial and professional contexts, from education to human resource development.The book charts the development of the idea of communities of practice and explores the key relationship between learning and identity among: newcomers and 'old timers'; male and female workers; the low skilled and the high skilled professionals and managers; and adults and adolescents. Drawing on international empirical studies and adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this book is useful reading for all students, researchers, practitioners and policy makers with an interest in work, employment, labour markets, learning, training or education. - Communities of practice -

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Paul Hildreth and Chris Kimble (2004) Knowledge Networks: Innovation Through Communities of Practice Knowledge Networks: Innovation Through Communities of Practice explores the inner workings of an organizational, internationally distributed Community of Practice. The book highlights the weaknesses of the 'traditional' KM approach of 'capture-codify-store' and asserts that communities of practice are recognized as groups where soft (knowledge that cannot be captured) knowledge is created and sustained. Readers will gain insight into a period the life of a distributed international community of practice by following the members as they work, meet, collaborate, interact and socialize. - Communities of practice - Innovation -

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Interview with Etienne Wenger on Communities of Practice http://www.knowledgelab.dk/now/e-portfolio/etienne_wenger In this interview Etienne Wenger outlines (in clip 1) the constitutive and fundamental assumptions of social learning theory, he explains (clip 2) how the theory can be applied in organisations, how (clip 3) the industrial model of knowledge is being challenged and revisited by the assumption the learning is happening all the time, (clip 4) that learning is not only situated in physical situations but is culturally and experientially situated in ourselves, (clip 5) how practitioners share and develop competence and knowledge together in practiced communities, (clip 6) that there is a deep relationship between individual identity and the participation in communities in the social world, and (clip 7) how a whole new language or public discourse of learning is mostly welcome. Also, Wenger's full lecture on the e-portfolio conference: "What if we assumed that society itself is a large-scale learning system?" is available. - Communities of practice - Knowledge Management -

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Networking among Communities of Practice http://www.gsa.gov/Portal/gsa/ep/channelView.do?pageTypeId=8203&channelPage=%2Fep%2Fchannel%2FgsaOverview.jsp&channelId=-17664 High performance requires quality dialogue, openness, and transparency in order to build the trust that leads to credible actions on behalf of communities at local, state, regional and national levels. For the past four years, the Office of Intergovernmental Solutions (OIS) has offered the Collaborative Expedition workshops as a scaffold to open up conversations toward shared understanding needed by intergovernmental communities separated by geography, jurisdiction, or specialization. - Communities of practice - eGovernment -

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Etienne Wenger's CoP start-up guide http://www.ewenger.com/theory/start-up_guide_PDF.pdf A 1-page quick guide by Etienne Wenger - Communities of practice -

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Want to manage tacit knowledge? http://www.anecdote.com.au/papers/Want_to_manage_tacit_knowledge.pdf Communities of practice offer a versatile solution, Shawn Callahan argues in this white paper. - Knowledge Management - Communities of practice -

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Communities of Practice: a social aspect to virtual worlds? http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~kimble/teaching/mis/Communities_of_Practice.html The term CoP is used to describe many groups. Here we discuss the CoP as a means of providing the missing social dimension to the virtual world. - Communities of practice -

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Chris Kimble - publications, conference papers, etc. http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~kimble/research/publics.html Contains links to a number of papers on CoPs/Km - Communities of practice -

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How to make a CoP fly? http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=98480 Diane Le Moult shares some ideas developped within Siemens in order to make a CoP fly. It includes 10 fundamental questions you need to ask before starting a CoP, 10 Tricks to make your CoP fly and 10 pitfalls. - Communities of practice -

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Etienne Wenger http://ewenger.com/ Etienne is an independent thinker, researcher, consultant, author, and speaker on CoPs and other romances. - Communities of practice -

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Knowledge Communities in the World Bank http://www.worldbank.org/ks/k-practice.html The World Bank sponsors a number of CoPs. They promote the type of continuous learning and knowledge sharing that is usually missing in its formal teams, groups, and one-off learning events. The following sections provides in-depth information on CoPs at the Bank; their role, impact, and value; and examples of how they work. Learn about the Bank's CoPs called Thematic Groups. - Communities of practice -

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Evolving Communities of Practice: IBM Global Services Experience http://www.knowledgeboard.com/item/71207 Since 1995, IBM Global Services has been implementing a business model that included support for the growth and development of communities of practice focused on the competencies of the organization. - Communities of practice -

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Open Directory on Communities of Practice http://dmoz.org/Reference/Knowledge_Management/Knowledge_Flow/Communities_of_Practice/ Links from dmoz - Communities of practice -

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