Hi I just wanted to plug an idea Bernie DeKoven introduced me and com-pracs to a couple of weeks ago, now I've played with it a bit. Its a great game, and one...
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stephen@...
Feb 5, 2001 9:28 am
Hi all, sorry that I got to this conversation late. A fundamental tenet of virtual communities of whatever shade is the need for the members to have a sense...
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Steffen G. Bohm
s.g.bohm@...
Feb 6, 2001 8:48 pm
STANDARD APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING The first issue of ephemera, the new journal for critical dialogues on organization, is now online at: ...
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jbenoit@...
Feb 7, 2001 11:08 pm
Quebec City, Canada Hi. I am a new member of your group. Since 3 years, I have been interested in communities of practice and its applications to ...
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jbenoit@...
Feb 8, 2001 4:44 pm
All my apologies. Correct url for the Commission de la santé et de la sécurité du travail (CSST)'s case study is ...
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Henderson, Candace (K...
candace.henderson@...
Feb 8, 2001 7:00 pm
Merci! Si vous avez des autre articles, si vous plait, je voudrais les voire. Candice Henderson Honeywell, Productivity Engineer 1645 Winchester Ave. 41101 ...
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Chris Macrae
wcbn007@...
Feb 9, 2001 6:17 pm
I'm Playing around with some 21st C Productivity Laws As always I could do with better draftmanship. Over to you! If you have a suggestion that I use, I will...
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Paul Prueitt
beadmaster@...
Feb 10, 2001 4:50 pm
To my cc list: You are welcome to join this forum. If you wish to make a reply, please reply to the kmci-Virtual-Chapter forum only, and please do not...
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Chris Macrae
wcbn007@...
Feb 12, 2001 3:52 pm
This conversational lob was first prepared for http://coworking.actionize.com/forum.php?action=274 BUT it seemed relevant to post here too?? 1) Perhaps we...
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Chris Macrae
wcbn007@...
Feb 12, 2001 6:04 pm
Help (can you add to my first attempt to answer following question?) Chris, can you help us look at CoP as a model and help us express its attributes in terms...
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Paul Prueitt
beadmaster@...
Feb 12, 2001 6:49 pm
Chris (greeting Denham), Let me try to add something to your expression of understanding. I look forward to developing a colloquy. I agree that the community...
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Denham Grey
dgrey@...
Feb 13, 2001 1:03 am
Chris, I'm not sure that greater understanding of principles is THE driver of CoPs. In my experience there is a strong need to belong, an association with...
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Chris Macrae
wcbn007@...
Feb 13, 2001 1:43 am
well i don't underestimate the power of identity in any organisational form (eg company , nation, club, CoP) but I'm not sure I understand in what way identity...
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Fourth Wave Group, Inc.
laramie@...
Feb 13, 2001 3:11 am
Chris, Deham, Paul F. and friends: Yes, I am still alive. I have read (lurked) with interest the most recent rounds of conversation about CoPs. "Round" appears...
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Paul Prueitt
beadmaster@...
Feb 13, 2001 1:34 pm
In response to Chris and Denham's discussion of community organizational dynamics. Chris, The work on self image and system image is developed in a literature...
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Paul Prueitt
beadmaster@...
Feb 13, 2001 1:53 pm
Laramie M. Winczewski said: "Can't CoPs just form, evolve and die without some overall managerial intelligence creating and directing them? " Of course. They...
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Chris Macrae
wcbn007@...
Feb 13, 2001 7:20 pm
Can anyone tell me : "Not so long ago, companies were reinvented by teams. Communities of practice may reinvent them yet again--if managers learn to cultivate...
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Dori Digenti
digenti@...
Feb 14, 2001 1:53 pm
... I think it is really hard for managers to learn about CoPs without generalizing the principles, making people aware of existing CoPs through case studies,...
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Fourth Wave Group, Inc.
laramie@...
Feb 14, 2001 2:15 pm
Chris, et. al., Of course, managers must learn. If they don't, they die professionally, and often foul some of their immediate work environment in the process....
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Chris Macrae
wcbn007@...
Feb 14, 2001 4:07 pm
So, as a student of Ed Schein's, I repeat his thinking: we have to get very ... to ... Thanks Dori. This para (above) especially whets my appetite. Do you know...
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jorgeluizk@...
Feb 14, 2001 6:21 pm
Hello, I´m studying about communities of practice in masters program of technology in CEFET-PR, state of Paraná, Brazil. I´m writing about the communities...
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Paul Prueitt
beadmaster@...
Feb 15, 2001 12:35 am
Why is every major community of practice application only partly analogous the next? One way to see the need to recognize the uniqueness in situations and ...
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Sun Li
sun@...
Feb 15, 2001 7:20 am
hello, everybody, I'm a new member in the com-pac group. Like Jorge Kimieck, I'm also studying "CoP", and will organize a sort-of CoP for my students and...
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Dori Digenti
digenti@...
Feb 15, 2001 12:17 pm
Chris, You asked: Do you know of ... I perhaps was not clear here: Schein has never specifically talked about an "organisational approach to embracing CoPs,"...
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Paul Prueitt
beadmaster@...
Feb 15, 2001 1:54 pm
Sun Li, I wonder if you see a community of practice as possibly having a major Internet component? Given the Internet resource, that are things that can be...
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Paul Prueitt
beadmaster@...
Feb 15, 2001 2:39 pm
Dori, My feeling is that you are close to specifying the very use cases that you are asking for. Perhaps you might do this and teach us about how you are...
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Denham Grey
dgrey@...
Feb 15, 2001 6:27 pm
Sun Li asks how CoPs can increase the generation of new knowledge. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/com-prac/message/932 Seems there are a number of avenues here....
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John D. Smith
smithjd@...
Feb 16, 2001 3:21 am
I was at the Braintrust Conference in San Fransisco this week, was recruited to take notes at a round-table lunch, and thought I'd pass them along, for what...
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Sun Li
sun@...
Feb 16, 2001 9:43 am
Paul has given me (us) a really comprehensive response to my question. I'm still digesting his ideas (Prueitt, Event Modeling and Knowledge processing, Jan...
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Paul Prueitt
beadmaster@...
Feb 16, 2001 1:41 pm
Please excuse the cross post. This letter and the two links develop some new ideas. Please respond only to the com-prac forum for continuation of this...
