http://libraryclips.blogsome.com sharing ideas thoughts and feedback Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:27:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en NOTE: I’m not a futurist or organisational anthropologist, but it seems that my interest in knowledge and networks has led me into thinking about such matters as fundamental as the future of organisational structure. A while ago I posted on how organisations can become more agile. People can connect horizontally…the silos ... http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2009/11/23/work-group-fatigue-level-of-effort-vs-funded-or-transform-the-organisation/ At the end of my last post I mentioned that KM (even Talent Management) or social computing need a top-down approach, shift, or message when it comes to collaboration, sharing, and organisational effectiveness…or better put a balanced approach. Why? Sure you will get lots of success in sense-making and sharing by facilitating ... http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2009/11/12/i-dont-want-to-share-thats-counter-to-meeting-my-objectivesand-reward/ Thought I’d share a few slides from a presentation I’m giving at work on Communities of Practice (CoP) from a knowledge management perspective. My aim was to contrast traditional KM of conscripting best practices, with a new approach based on sensemaking pkm and networks…more appropriate tools, design for emergence and ambient ... http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2009/11/02/sensemaking-km-and-cops-just-in-time-vs-just-in-case-engaging-and-embedded-km-and-a-competitive-vs-collaborative-culture/ Not long ago I posted about how our Communities of Practice (CoP) are hitting a sweetspot…bottom-up and grass roots tools that provide more of a sense of place and better coordination over email, and are more enabling than the Intranet. Great cross-functional CoPs are emerging like Bulk Materials Handling, Sustainable Development, ... http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2009/10/30/the-unexpected-emergence-from-our-communities-of-practice/ Looks like I was prophetic when I posted What’s the difference between Intranet 2.0 and a social network with groups. Why do I say this? At work we have many active online Communities of Practice (CoPs), some are learning and sharing, and others are customer based information and support CoPs, or even ... http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2009/10/12/is-your-group-leaving-the-intranet-for-an-online-community-of-practice/ It’s uncanny, I read a blog post yesterday by the inspiring Peter Bregman on focusing on one thing when you want to make a change or a difference…less is more. Just now, I realised that I practiced this very thing the other day. Here are some excerpts from an email exchange ... http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2009/10/08/time-limited-to-set-up-a-cop-whats-your-most-pressing-issue/ I’m finding that some Communities of Practice (CoPs) at work are lacking leadership even though they have a community leader. This is a broad statement, and there can be many reasons for this, but in this post I want to focus on one particular reason. This has happened on several CoPs where ... http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2009/10/07/online-communities-technical-facilitators-are-not-enough/ I mentioned on Twitter the other day that teams at my work don’t have web 2.0 type online team spaces, but Communities of Practice do. So what happens is that teams are using our CoP tools…and then of course these online team spaces are referred to as CoPs, which is ... http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2009/10/06/sponsor-for-cops-vs-self-serve-ad-hoc-groups/ A while ago I wrote a post called Enabling communities, and today I had exactly the same experience that inspired me to write that post. Here are some points from our discussion. I am trying to set up a CoP for people with experience in 3D animation and visualisation. This is a specialist ... http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2009/10/01/online-communities-of-practice-are-a-sweet-spot/ This is not a post about social computing deploying/piloting/adoption in general. All these are applicable on many levels eg. a person implementing across the whole organisation, within a department, across a couple of departments, within a group, etc… Of late we have seen posts by folks at ThoughtFarmer and Socialtext on ... http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2009/09/14/community-of-practice-for-facilitators-pilot-adoption-and-participation/