Communities of Practice: The Organizational Frontier. A new organizational form is emerging in the information economy, alongside work groups, project teams and informal networks.
It's called a community of practice — a group of people informally bound together by shared expertise and passion for a joint enterprise — and it promises to radically galvanize knowledge sharing, learning, and change. Etienne C. Wenger and William M. Snyder explain in this excerpt from their article in the Harvard Business Review. by Etienne C. Today's economy runs on knowledge, and most companies work assiduously to capitalize on that fact. Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge - Seven Principles for Cultivating Communities of Practice. In a new book, Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge, the authors offer a practical guide to making knowledge work inside an organization.
In this excerpt, the authors detail seven design principles for cultivating communities, everything from "design for evolution" to "combine familiarly and excitement. " by Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, and William M. Snyder.
Community Management: Value, Definitions, Job D. Community management: are we all talking about the same thing? Something interesting has started happening when we go and talk to prospective clients about online community management services.
There are various companies which specialise in community management and moderation, and have done for a number of years, but agencies (mostly PR and communications agencies, rather than digital ad agencies) are starting to claim expertise in community management, and to be honest, I don’t think they’re talking about the same thing as we are. It’s causing real confusion client-side.
While we both work with online communities, I think we need to be clear about the definitions of what we each do, so we can work together more effectively. Community management is the process of growing, building and nurturing an engaged and active community. This is very different from the process required to manage that community.
Online Communities Part Three: Growing the Community. InShare00inShare This report is part of the Online Communities bundle.
Downloads Online Communities Part Three: Growing the Community (827 KB PDF) About this report. The Community Management Group. Managing Social Media. Online Community Managers. The Community Manager. Forrester Wave Report: The Leaders in Community Platforms for Marketers (Part 4/4) Introducing The Map - A Proven Process For Developing Successful Online Communities. Here is a simple map for those of you whom aren't on the Pillar Summit mailing list.
The Map The map is based upon the online community lifecycle. Over the past few decades the lifecycle has been developed by academics, refined by practitioners and perfected by us. There are four stages to online community development. These are inception, establishment, maturity and mitosis (there is death too, but lets skip that for now). {click for larger image} Stage 1) Inception The inception stage of the online community lifecycle begins when the organization or individual begins interacting with their target audience and ends with the community achieving a critical mass of activity. Searching Usenet for virtual communities of practice: using mixed methods to identify the constructs of Wenger's theory.
Enrique Murillo Department of Business Management, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Mexico City, Mexico Introduction The concept of community of practice originally introduced by Lave and Wenger (1991) and developed extensively in Wenger (1998), has attracted increasing interest in recent years.
The Web of Science citation index shows a rising trend of published papers, displayed in Figure 1. Community of Practice - OrthopaedicsOne Articles - OrthopaedicsOne. What Is Communilytics? : A community analytics funnel in practice. Building a community management centre of excellence. The Community Roundtable: Dedicated to Advancing the Business of Community.
Community Management Fundamentals. Slide: Levels of participation. Inner Circle Communities. Online Community ROI: Models and Reporting – Research Study Posted. Research is a large part of the activities that I and Forum One Networks engages in.
The Online Community Research Network studies and publishes 6 times a year on topics that matter to those responsible for guiding online community and social media activities in their organization. The Online Community ROI Models and Reporting research study was initiated in February of 2008. The study was created in order to investigate further into the ROI research that we conducted in the last half of 2007, and to gain insight into specifically how organizations were valuing and reporting on their online communities activities.
Further, we wanted to gain insight into who the stakeholders were for ROI metrics, and how the reports were being received. I will be blogging highlights of the report over the next few weeks. We received approximately 150 completed surveys. Forrester-ROI-Online-Support-Communities_s3NR5PeZ.pdf (объект «application/pdf») How To Build An Online Community: The Ultimate List Of Resources (2012) Stan Garfield, Community evangelist at Deloitte. The Online Community Guide. A manifesto for online communities. Communities Manifesto. Community of practice. This article or section is incomplete and its contents need further attention.
Some sections may be missing, some information may be wrong, spelling and grammar may have to be improved etc. Use your judgment! 1 Definitions. _OnlineCoCreation.pdf (объект «application/pdf») Value Creation in Communities of Practice – further insights. August 9, 2012 by jennymackness I first wrote about the Value Creation Framework when I attended last year’s BEtreat in Grass Valley, California (2011) – see Value Creation in Communities of Practice This year (Academic BEtreat 2012 ) the value creation framework has again been a topic for discussion, with the added advantage of having a few participants who are using it or planning to use it.
It was a useful discussion, which has further informed my thinking and practice; I am currently working on a project in which we are using the value creation framework to inform our approach to knowledge management in a third sector organization. The key points for me were: There has been a tendency (at least in my mind) to confuse value creation with evaluation. Communities of innovation. Communities-creation.pdf (объект «application/pdf») Создание профессионального сетевого сообщества - Сообщества, форумы и социальные сети. Не так просто грамотно создать профессиональное сетевое сообщество.
Необходимо, чтобы такое сообщестов было понятным для постоянных и вновь пришедших посетителей, которые захотят вернуться и пользоваться им. Автор: Евгений Патаракин. Virtual community. A virtual community is a social network of individuals who interact through specific social media, potentially crossing geographical and political boundaries in order to pursue mutual interests or goals.
One of the most pervasive types of virtual community operate under social networking services consisting of various online communities. Virtual communities all encourage interaction, sometimes focusing around a particular interest or just to communicate. Some virtual communities do both. Community members are allowed to interact over a shared passion through various means: message boards, chat rooms, social networking sites, or virtual worlds.[1] Introduction[edit]
National Network for Collaboration Framework. Collaboration Framework- Addressing Community Capacity To support collaboration among universities and community- based programs, the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES), USDA, created five National Networks to marshal faculty and program resources to directly respond to the economic, social, and human stresses faced by children, youth and families. These networks, which constitute the Cooperative Extension System Children, Youth and Family (CYF) Network, are linked and accessed through CYFERNET , an Internet-based children, youth and family information system operated by the CSREES. The CSREES currently funds five networks for Child Care, Collaboration, Family Resiliency, Science and Technology Literacy, and National Decisions for Health. © 1995 National Network for Collaboration. Создание и развитие форумов и сообществ.
The State of Online Community 2008 : Key Findings from the Online C... Bill Johnston, Director of strategic content & community at Autodesk. Communities of practice. The term “community of practice” is of relatively recent coinage, even though the phenomenon it refers to is age-old.
The concept has turned out to provide a useful perspective on knowing and learning. A growing number of people and organizations in various sectors are now focusing on communities of practice as a key to improving their performance.This brief and general introduction examines what communities of practice are and why researchers and practitioners in so many different contexts find them useful as an approach to knowing and learning. What are communities of practice? Note that this definition allows for, but does not assume, intentionality: learning can be the reason the community comes together or an incidental outcome of member’s interactions. CHAP12HOADLEY.pdf (объект «application/pdf»)