As part of my work at IDeA in developing their comminities of practice (CoP) strategy, we’re engaging with Warwick Business School and their Knowledge and Innovation Network affiliate in research project for ‘value’ benchmarking CoPs in public and private sectors. A launch event for this project took place on 18th September, with speakers including Larry [...]
I was encouraged by the recent press release on the Cabinet Office website about the launch of a joint project by Office of the Third Sector and the Improvement & Development Agency (IDeA) to support local authorities and their partners in delivering increased participation in volunteering and an environment for a thriving third sector in [...]
Michael Norton, a colleague at IDeA has put this great little video clip together explaining Communities of Practice. It makes specific reference to CoPs in local government, but the concepts are generic to any CoP.
It does what it says on the tin - enjoy!
Links for 2008-08-02
Top 100 Brands in Social Media
Social media uptake is driven by an audience of early adopters. This group are primarily technology enthusiasts with a natural inclination to sharing information and insight. Google, Yahoo!, Apple and Microsoft take the top four spots respectively.
UK Government Committee Report on harmful content on Internet (PDF)
House of Commons’ [...]
(Photo by Daniel F. Pigatto)
I was in two minds on whether to get involved with this debate/discussion, but since we now seem to have accepted “Enterprise 2.0″ into the social computing lexicon I thought I should at least ensure I’ve got a clear understanding about what this means.
The authors over at Library Clips have [...]
I wonder what it is about Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs), Non-Government Organisations (NGO’s) and other Quangos that somehow feel compelled to monitor and report on socio-demographic data that is not part of their brief?
I encountered this first hand when I was contracted by LSC and DIUS last year to set up the Information Authority. This [...]
I attended (and presented at) the Butler Group “Information Management and Collaboration” event that was held in London on 14-15 May. Regrettably I couldn’t get to the first day of the event, so missed presentations on topics such as:
Document collaboration using Sharepoint, and
Next generation collaboration through BEA Systems portals
Hence, I was left to ponder how [...]
Tools for Communities Wiki A companion piece to a forthcoming book Stewarding Technologies for Communities of Practice by Etienne Wenger, Nancy White and John D. Smith. It collects knowledge about how Communities of Practice use different tools. Like all Wikis, this is a work in progress. It collects knowledge about how Communities of [...]
I thought I would try out Google Gadgets as a way of showing the growth in usage of the IDeA CoP platform. It was simpler to set up than I imagined. A straight forward process of adding the data to a Google Spreadsheet, inserting the Gadget to the spreasheet, and then selecting the option [...]
Having only just seen the Exalead press release, I’m reminded of a significant new enhancement that we introduced to the IDeA Communities of Practice (CoP) web platform earlier this year. The Exalead search service provides each CoP with a facility for creating a personalised community list of websites that enables more focussed and relevant search [...]
