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Incompatible Assumptions: Barriers to Producing Multidisciplinary Knowledge in Communities of Scholarship — HBS Working Knowledge
producing and disseminating knowledge within a multidisciplinary community of practice is enhanced when knowledge workers hold compatible assumptions, even when the form and content of knowledge generation across those workers varies
Mediated Cultures: Digital Ethnography at Kansas State University
aggregator site with lots of material on the ethnology of web use
edublogs: Community-building - why bottom-up alone doesn't work
It's a myth to believe that purely bottom-up culture will lead to any form of truly successful community. Purely bottom-up communities are, ironically, difficult for newbies to infiltrate and, once in them, hard for anyone to have their voice heard.
ERIC - A national perspective: an exploration of professional learning communities and the impact on school improvement efforts
ERIC 491997: A number of initiatives designed to improve student performance and the quality of teaching are available for educational leaders. One such initiative is professional learning communities.
Ning in Education
a community of educators who use Ning to build social networks. A meta network for ning in schools
Tech Soup: Eight Secrets of Effective Online Networking
tips, tricks and tools for using and managing your social networks wisely
Tim Tyson: Leadership applied: building powerful learning communities
Bit by Bit Podcast: 61 | Bit By BitDr. Tim Tyson’s Workshop: Leadership Applied: Building Powerful Learning Communities. comments re moving from early adopters to general use
ERIC - Education Resources Information Center - The three big ideas for PLCs
Professional learning communities consist of three big ideas: Ensure that students learn; create a culture of collaboration; focus on results (DuFour, 2004). Shifts from looking at what you teach to what students learn.
16 Core Observations of Social Design - Bokardo
quick list of 16 observations about life that have serious effects on social design. Note that none of these are how people interact with interfaces, per se, but how we interact with other people.
Common Pitfalls of Building Social Web Applications and How to Avoid Them, Part 3 - Bokardo
part III of a series on Common Pitfalls of Building Social Web Applications
Creating Passionate Users: User Community and ROI
a few more tips on how to use your marketing budget (tiny as it may be) to build, support, and grow a user community from the beginning.
Creating Passionate Users: How to Build a User Community, Part 1
best way to grow a user community is to get beginners to answer questions. The more they become involved, the more likely they are to stick with it through the rough spots in their own learning curve, and we all know that having to teach or explain someth
The art of building virtual communities
"question for many trying to establish education comm's of practice is how to design a VLC that is compelling enough that it will compete successfully for the attention of busy educators"
Eldis - Benchmarks for building extranets and online communities
This set of benchmarks is designed to help organisations effectively implement online communities—whether a community of grantees or a community of volunteers or some other collection of constituents.
Bokardo » Putting the Del.icio.us Lesson into Practice, Part I
interesting discussion about personal value versus network value in social networks; asks "s your system useful to someone even if nobody else uses it?
Sustaining Change presentation wiki
discussion wiki by Chris Lehmann following up his presentation at BLC 2007. also has pdf of slides and link to SLA's curriculum guide
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