This is a follow-up from two previous posts on leading team-based communities: The participation issue from community ownership and structure More thoughts on community structure and creation As mentioned the most natural types of online communities are the one’s that are *pure* communities of...

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A lot of people I have spoken to want one place (community) for all discussions about a topic. They are averse to overlapping topic communities, and feel that a conversation in one community should actually be happening in a more appropriate community. That would be nice, but this is really hard to ...

I’ve been posting quite a bit on communities lately, mostly on creation and structure. At the moment we are still piloting and have come across various types of communities. Business Unit Teams wanting to use a community space instead of email, see more. Special Interest Groups ie. people acro...

A while back I posted on Chuck Hollis’s journey in introducing Communities of Practice to EMC. My previous post was a digest of what I think are the best parts of Chuck’s blog where he is documenting his experience, called A Journey in Social Media. Well now he has summarized all those b...

This is a follow-up to my Community Lessons post, and Community paradox post. Top-Down community creation We have not officially released communities at work, but we have over 50, as it’s spreading by word of mouth (plus all this stuff is in vogue now). I’m still writing the help guides,...

I’ve echoed words by Dave Snowden and Jon Husband that rather than trying to create a knowledge sharing culture, we are instead creating conditions and environment for that to happen naturally via a participation model that facilitates connections and shared context. These conditions are: simp...

Dean from the Infovark blog has a contemporary post, “Knowledge Management Renaissance?“, I guess the question mark is nicely put as it may indeed be considered a war for some. Some people do not want to be affiliated with the failed KM crowd, and the existing KM crowd have been waiting ...

James Dellow has blog tagged me on the meme, How do I decide what to blog about? I’m changing this a little to what blogging does for me. Quite simply it’s ideas, thoughts and feedback related to the way we work. I started off being a library and web 2.0 blogger, but since changing work ...

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