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- Communities of Practice and Pattern Language - James B. Smethurst. For any member of a Community of Practice, there comes a time to interface with individuals and organizations which do not form part of the Community. The difficulty of this situation is the issue of language. Every Community of Practice has its own pattern language, its own way of expressing and discussing the unique qualities of its chosen art.
- Communities of Practice: a social aspect to virtual worlds? - The term CoP is used to describe many groups. Here the CoP is discussed as a means of providing the missing social dimension to the virtual world.
- Etienne Wenger - Homepage of the Community of Practice researcher and consultant who coined the term along with Jean Lave. Features links to his widely-read publications on the field, including an exhaustive survey of technologies that can be used to support Communities of Practice.
- IBM Global Services experience evolving Communities of Practice - Overview of the lessons IBM Global Services have learned since 1995 implementing Communities of Practice. Focuses on people and organization behavior, supporting processes, and enabling technology factors.
- Community in the Workplace - Describes an anthology of essays about community building in the workplace, written by a virtual community of community-builders.
- Communities of practice and organizational performance - Lesser and Storck of the IBM Institute for Knowledge Management argue that the social capital in communities, which may be virtual or co-located, lead to changes that positively influence business performance.
- Communities of Practice Discussion Forum - Group that discusses technology, theory and developmental practices. Features a glossary and links to related sites.
- Samford University McWhorter School of Pharmacy - Center of Pharmaceutical Care in Community Practice. The goals of the Center are: To assist community pharmacists practicing in selected community pharmacy settings to attain knowledge and skills needed to enable them to deliver pharmaceutical care to their patients.
- Global Gateways - Global Gateways is currently facilitating Communities of Practice (CoPs) for Chief Information Officers (CIOs). We are also forming Communities for other management groups.
- Efios knowledge management - Knowledge management consultants for building and supporting communities of practice, virtual teams and communities in the enterprise organisation.
Wikipedia Articles
- Network of practice - Network of Practice builds on the work on communities of practice by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger in the early 1990s, John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid (2000) developed the concept of networks of practice (often abbreviated as NoPs). This concept refers to the overall set of various types of informal, emergent social networks that facilitate ...
- European lawyer - A European lawyer is a lawyer who is entitled to practice law under the provisions of European Communities (Services of Lawyers) Order 1978 in European countries they are not licensed in. The order contains a list of countries of origin and the designations which the order applies to, for example in the case of Finland, both a "asianajaja" and an "advokat" may practice as a ...
- Corporate poverty - Corporate poverty is a practice which arose in the Middle Ages of religious communities which refused to own property, either individually or corporately. This practice developed in, among other groups, a community of wool merchants in southern France in the 11th century, known as the Humiliati (the "Humble Ones").
- Christian pacifism - Christian pacifism is a practice supported by peace churches, Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), Christian anarchists and other Christians. Pacifism, the opposition to violence and war, is a minority view in Christianity but the dominant belief in Christian communities such as peace churches.
- Utilidors (Arctic towns) - Utilidors are above-ground enclosed utility conduits that are used in larger communities in the northern polar region where permafrost does not allow the normal practice of burying water and sewer pipes underground. They can in particular be found in Inuvik, Northwest Territories and Iqaluit, Nunavut.