In this new year many of us have promised ourselves to try and find more balance in our lives. I personally vowed to spend more time connected with the earth and growing things through hiking, walking on the beach, and playing hard with my four 20-something kids. And yet with all of the meaningful w...

On June 2nd, with a group of CoP enthousiasts, we organised a working conference about communities of practice in the Netherlands, which was attended by roughly 75 people. I had the impression not everyone who has experience working with this concept was present, but it's a good start. The start of ...

While I obviously haven't been blogging- I have been fast at it. I would say I have been busy, but Dean Shareski (our new convener for K12Online)  has taught me we are all busy and I am not suppose to talk about how busy I am, but rather just talk about what I have been up to lately.   I k...

What’s with this collective blogging thing that now starts before conferences? I’m being rhetorical. Conferences that survive today become living events. They also have the opportunity to provide many more options for attendees to connect and explore before, during and after the conferen...

(Cartoon via tangwailing blog ) I observed that Stan Garfield blogs about questions he receives or overhears about knowledge management. That made me think that I could blog some of the questions I get (+ the answers). One of them was: how can blogs support communities of practice? 1. A community of...

The communities I work with seem to be using telephone bridges more and more. Those phone bridges are acquiring more features (so I think of them more like a platform with several tools on them rather than simple tools). For example, phone bridge platforms can send email announcements scheduling a c...

Interesting discussion over on Student 2.0 by Sean (the bass player) a student in Scotland and a group of teachers. The post was inspired from some well meant questions from a caring American adult (teacher) who was chatting with Sean at 1:30am (Scotland). I think it was more the perceived inference...