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

I prepared a toolbox of activities for community of practice events and workshops for the Central Advisory Services on Intellectual Property for a workshop in January, earlier this year. These tools are ...

2. Situated social reporting
(Blog/Social Media)

I am immersed in thoughts about social reporting at the moment. The story that a community tells about itself - in words and pictures - is how the community makes sense of itself and is meaningful to members. ...

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

... the trajectory of a group or community and its practices. It is a snapshot that, if you are not careful, misses out on all that has gone on before and on all the existing connections. Not only are all ...

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

... and should get (ethically) for publishing images and words of other people. In community events this role of capturing stuff seems different to and as important as that of technology steward , facilitator, ...

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

... defensive,  the temperature notched up a degree. What was the speaker - a community leader - talking about? He was talking about how he was trying to resolve the problems of his community members ...

6. CIDAC: CoP Launch
(Portfolio/Portfolio)

Suppport and workshop for CIDAC in their work to create a community of practice with people in organisations who are working with schools for education for sustainable development. ...

7. SCML: Community of Practice
(Portfolio/Portfolio)

Support to Universidade Católica, Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, for the design and facilitation of the launch of a community of practice for Directors and Coordinators of Santa Casa de Misericordia ...

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

... problems. I felt daunted by the magnitude of an invitation to help them become a community of practice so they can support each other and pool questions, experiences and resources between them (which they ...

9. 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 ...

10. 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 ...

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

So our paper for the AoIR conference in Copenhagen ("Rethinking Community, Rethinking Place") was accepted. "Where do we meet next time? - negotiating places, identities and technologies ...

12. A document as a set of relationships
(Blog/Social Media)

... for Shirikisha , the community platform we are developing.  It's a tremendous amount of work putting together a proposal, but it's immensely satisfying. What might look like a creative, interesting ...

13. Disruptive, fun and motivating ways of working
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... a business model for Shirikisha, a community platform we are developing, where we are talking about software code and development. The Open Source Model of software development and of working is an interesting ...

14. Mangos and bananas speed-dating
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

... than at community-style workshops. What sense could he make of the introductions where we "played" some "speed-dating" for people to get to know each other? In this session on introdcutions ...

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

...  is proud to add a  new learning event to its educational offerings. "Connected futures: New social strategies and tools for communities of practice" is a workshop for community managers, ...

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

We're moving forward with our autoethnography on tools and technology in community in preparation for a paper at the AoIR Conference (Association of Internet Researchers) in Copenhagen in October. ...

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

... academic community that share a communicative purpose, and which incoporates a language (discourse) that is defined in terms of what people do with it. There is no objective procedure for categorising ...

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

... a community of practice perspective.  Arguing that weaving participation using different media in succession is different from blended or hybrid learning, we suggest that careful design of an online ...

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

... all parts of the curriculum.   Cross-institutional links are being built and active participation encouraged with local businesses and the local community. More and more, teachers are being pressured  ...

20. Shirikisha: Platform Development
(Portfolio/Portfolio)

Development Management of a community platform originally developed for the ILO under MIT license and for which we would like to continue developing or hosting with new partners.Working with David Ramalho ...