Library clips :: Team-based communities :: February :: 2009 - The Diigo Meta page

• 27 Mar 09
  

  team community

  • As mentioned the most natural types of online communities are the one’s that are *pure* communities of practice. That is, cross-functional people (perhaps in different offices) that have a common interest, and want a space to leverage each others know-how.
  • “If a community has value it will form and the technology now allows that.”
• 24 Feb 09
  

  Bertrand Duperrin

  Adopting Team CoPs
  
  It’s usually the team lead who wants the community
  - so right off the bat we need to know if it’s what the workers want
  - and we need to know how to best structure it so the workers naturally participate
  
  An idea here for the lead is to put aside control, prescribed structure and convenience of one space, and let the workers suggest community structure/number of communities
  - a bottom-up way to structure a top-down request

  communities communitiesofpractices teamcommunities leadership

  • It is essential the team lead must be active. If they are not, this sends a signal to the workers that the tools don’t have much merit. The team lead must be a role model.
  • Another thing is that if the team lead has appointed a champion, or one has volunteered to facilitate, it’s a very hard job to have influence in a team dynamic.

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