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. Communicating on the go
(Blog/Social Media)

Developing a repertoire of tools and practices for email, phone and WIFI access while I'm in different places keeps my grey hairs growing.   Between now and end of March my travel schedule looks like ...

3. Integrating facilitation and social reporting
(Blog/Blog)

... is also writing about this gap over in crisscrossed. Paradoxically I think that social media tools stand a better chance of becoming a lasting part of practice, if using the tools is integrated into the ...

4. 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 ...

5. A webinar as a performance art
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

... a good performance. It's the performing of a parable. Perhaps I've become too precious about having meaningful conversations... I need to get better at performance skills - and to practice those performance ...

6. Building competencies through e-learning
(Blog/News)

... of their own stuff and negotiation of meaning, with online tools as an integral, but background, part of the practice.   Five stars for this webcast, even without taking into consideration our presentation! ...

7. 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 ...

8. 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 ...

9. Thinking public personal boundaries
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

... A cycle of noticing, conversations and practice The ideas come from a series of conversations (going back years) with David Wilcox and John Smith (in different contexts) ... the conversations spark something ...

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

... raising awareness, highlighting good practice, having an impact in ways that incorporate a wider type of audience than just those who will plough their way through traditional written text.  Some ...

11. 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 ...

12. 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 ...

13. Time to get behind
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... Mistakes I make create a fast iterative turnover. I thrive on it. In the meantime I've come to appreciate and hold dear people who do less ... more slowly.  And I'm changing my practices ...

14. 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. ...

15. 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 ...

16. 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 ...

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

... much information about. Thinking twice about distributing information freely and unthinkingly is a mark of good practice and consideration. Anyone can publish what they want It is a challenge to find out ...

18. 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 ...

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

... in an autoethnography of a community of practice" is the long title of our paper. Last night at 21 GMT, the only time three busy, familied people from Germany, Portugal and US can get together we ...

20. 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 ...