1. BEtreat - a party workshop
(Blog/Blog)

Etienne Wenger and I are throwing a birthday workshop in Grass Valley, California.  It's a way of sharing our work together and pushing out the envelope. And having fun at the same time. BEtreat In 2008 ...

2. Communication toolbox - or ode to the pdf
(Portfolio/Toolboxes)

...  Peer Coaching They are not tools specifically for communities of practice, but I talk about them through my own context and experience which is mostly in communities of practice. At first I thought ...

3. Situated social reporting
(Blog/Social Media)

... Those "reports" become a historic reference point, a shared memory and a way of extending the conversation beyond the border of who is physically "in the room". In communities-of-practice-speak ...

4. Online space or a place to hang out?
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

... the previous activities, practices, tools, discourse and conversations missing from CoP off the shelf, but so are the identities, communities and sense of belonging that people have which are spread out ...

5. From report writing to social reporting
(Blog/Social Media)

I don’t need to look at the date, I just have to feel a big empty gap to know I haven’t blogged for ages. One of the reasons is that I’m writing a helluva lot for other people and communities. ...

6. Lessons learned and context: how to represent them
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

I am preparing a series of Learning Events for CIARIS to enquire about ways that communities are monitoring and evaluating their work, impact and unexpected outcomes. It's been quite a popular topic ...

7. Moving on with my identity
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... most meaningful to me and do them well. What is my territory? Give it a name. If I'm at an event for leaders of communities of practice, I will always be seen as assistant to the person who has mapped ...

8. Identity attack: new tools
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

I have just returned from presenting a three day workshop in Berlin with a network of transnational communities of practice in Europe. At one stage the atomosphere turned tense. Faces in the audience were ...

9. Stress - a discursive problem?
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... currently don't have time to do) and to be able to set up communities of practice between their teams who face similar circumstances  in four areas of Lisbon, but who don't communicate with ...

10. Meltdown, Takeoff and World 3.0
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... time I have to talk to and play with people in my own family(-ies), communities and networks. The more I work with connecting other people the less time I have to think or act on social media tools - ...

11. Connectivity as place
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

I've spent quite a lot of time recently with different projects that are just starting up. The assumption in all of them is that "we'll have a community of practice" as if it was something ...

12. KM4Dev Workshop in Almada, Lisbon
(Blog/News)

... community networking time for members of KM4Dev and other communities with overlapping interests 19-21 June - Open Space for Topics of Current Interest. This 'core' part of KM4Dev 2008 (lasting ...

13. The phone is not my media
(Blog/Social Media)

... you're multi-tasking!) But there's a paradox there. I'm participating in the design of a course about communities and (Web2.0) tools and it's not without irony that I notice we use the ...

14. Some process issues about where we meet next time
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... set the scene in our abstract. We'll go away individually and do some free-writing about those paragraphs. Patricia on "Early research on virtual communities..."; John on "The strategy ...

15. Connected futures: New social strategies and tools for communities of practice
(Blog/News)

This looks like an interesting online workshop - about strategies and tools for communities of practice - running between April 28 and May 30 2008. (disclaimer: I'm on the design team)  CPsquare ...

16. What makes something a place?
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... The conference theme is Rethinking Communities, Rethinking Place.  The inquiry is one that John Smith , Patricia Arnold and I have been working together on - on and off - for about three years. Our ...

17. Genre and Discourse Analysis (2004)
(Blog/Essays)

... my data I'm ever more conscious of the connections between genre, discourse, knowledge, power and communities of practice and I need to encapsulate those thoughts. I shall do it by describing discourse ...

18. Weaving together Online and Face-to-Face (2006)
(Blog/Essays)

... WEAVING TOGETHER ONLINE AND FACE-TO-FACE LEARNING: A DESIGN FROM A COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE PERSPECTIVE  John D. Smith Learning Alliances and CPsquare, United States of America John.Smith@LearningAlliances.net ...

19. Policy-making as design (2005)
(Blog/Essays)

... horizontal communities of practice (Lave and Wenger – ref) and increased importance of networking. Changing towards interdisciplinarity.  "International education is interdisciplinary ...

20. Shirikisha: Platform Development
(Portfolio/Portfolio)

... the design of an easily accessible site for international communities to come and work together. ...