As everyone on this list knows, online collaboration is transforming the way we work together, motivating researchers to look at emerging practices. The ...
Hello Community, My name is Ron and I am an online facilitator for a US Army professional forum called Leader Net. Unfortunately the forum is for Army use...
Hello I'm Chandni and my area of interest and work is collaboration. I've found facilitation to be both easy and difficult. Easy when I was doing it internally...
Hi all, I haven't posted in ages but I am a faithful lurker. There are a few days left to gather opinions from Online Moderators and Community professionals....
Dear colleagues, Can anyone recommend a practical approach to evaluating a community of practice, or even a set of questions for a periodic survey of community...
Hi Mark, Here's a few I had from some sites I bookmarked. The following tools are available to those either leading CoPs or those interested in leading CoPs. A...
Hello Mark, Joitske just made a very nice overview of measuring methods for CoPs in de CP Square wiki. And I know that Donald Ropes, working at the Centre for...
Hi Mark You could use most significant change<http://www.anecdote.com.au/archives/2007/09/most_significan_1.html>or simply collect and share examples of...
How Do You Handle Multimembership? What, not sure about what Multimembership is? Multimembership refers to being a member of several social networking ...
Rebecca. I find the message "This survey is now closed" on both links. Thanks for sending it anyway. Mumtaz A. Piracha 'Every thing is impossible until you...
I have been a poor community host these last months, not recognizing and welcoming new members like Ron, Amy, Daryl, Joao, Rochele and others. As they say,...
Hi Nancy, I for one would miss the list :-). Even if it's on low traffic. Changing it into a different (and possibly more attractive) environment would require...
Let's see if we can enliven this a bit :-). I'm preparing a presentation for early December in which we'll be talking about ways to involve public servants in...
Hi Nancy, I echo Miguel's sentiments. I've been a member of this group since 1999, albeit a silent member - My first foray into online communities started...
Hi All, Following on from Nancy's and others comments I thought I would ask the group for some help and hopefully provide a useful resource. Some time ago I...
Nancy, I'm in agreement with you that a new format might be appropriate. Any chance for threaded discussion in Moodle or something like that? I tend not to...
I also, would miss this list. I am 100% lurker but I read loyally. I like the rest of you am just not taking the time to join the conversation. I promise to...
Hi Nancy and all! I too have been a pretty silent person. I launched my first online community a year ago. Being able to listen here helped me to realize that...
Hi, my name is William, and I am a lurker. Why don't I post more? Well, my reason is that I am an online facilitator at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh who...
Hello everybody, I“m a lurker too and agree with William and Miguel: keep the list. I read and never post. Sorry for that. One of the reasons, I“m fluent ...
I agree. I too lurk and occasional post an answer or question. Groups like this are useful. I am a member of another group that's very active; however, only...
Nancy, I am not sure that, setting up a new group would make things more interesting. It is going to be hassle anyway (for both you & us). For you, because...
(From Nancy - for some reason Sue can't post, so while we sort this out, I'm forwarding her message in response to the introductions, update thread - NW) Hi I...
Well, funny how topics run across forums. EVO is currently having a similar discussion on lurking. I don't usually lurk not online or offline. I love...
I am also a (mostly) lurker on this forum. I found this group while doing some research on Communities of Practice. OF seemed to have a wide range of...
Two posts in one day. I had headed over here to OF to post this but got sidetracked on the meta discussion about keeping / not keeping the group. At any rate,...
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I would like to thank those people who responded to my recent question. This group certainly is working from my perspective. Its one of the few groups I...
Thanks for the resources John, both of them are very useful (yeah, Cpsquare!). I have a particular soft spot for lurkers, having ³stood up² for them in ...