July 05, 2005

Participation accumulates

CPsquare's Resource Base has been slower to develop than we originally thought. Meanwhile, each workshop since 2002 has been churning out resources that express the interests and understanding of workshop participants. It's remarkable that in the midst of very busy lives, workshop participants are able to produce significant chunks of work in just three weeks.

The process of producing these reports and tools is always interesting, calling on people to think in terms of new styles of leadership that will work with a short-lived online community. In fact, the key to the second "Domain Inquiry" week (Week 6) is to reflect on the experience of participation in the process of knowledge creation. (Of course we also reflect on stories and cases and the actual content that has been produced, but often it's the process that really gets our juices flowing.

Because the workshop and the structures around it are evolving as we go, it turns out that we have created a further thing to think about: we don't have any formal method telling the original authors how their work has been built upon since they took the workshop. It's a good problem to have.

Here's a list of all the projects that are in the Workshop Cybrary. Spring 2002 Projects

  • Teasing "readers" of an online forum to contribute
Fall 2002 Projects
  • WebCT to support communities of practice
  • Innovation and Change Management
  • Questionnaire for first contact with organizations interested in developing COP's
  • Community Development - A Model
January 2003 Projects
  • Call Center CoP
  • Organizational Readiness to Start a CoP
  • Continuing Members, New Members and Alumni
  • P2P Community Technology Project
  • Cross-cultural issues and psychological safety within CoPs
  • Exploring Portal Technology
June 2003 Projects
  • Knowledge Community Development Action Plan
  • A CoP Startup Kit
  • Let's get more positive about the term 'lurker'
  • Feature sets for collaboration tools
  • The role a lens metaphor can play in a CoP
October 2003 Projects
  • The Multiple Roles of CoP in Universities |
  • Scoping a community coordinator job description
  • Field trip travel agency
  • Cultural mix to enhance communities of practice
Jan 2004 Projects
  • Tips and Tools to pull through the doldrums
  • Lighting the First Flames
  • CoPs and Social Network Analysis
  • Online Icebreakers
  • Engaging the periphery
  • Participation and the structure/design of a CoP?
May 2004 projects
  • Structuring a CoP
  • Selling a CoP
  • CoPs and highly structured organizations
  • Stories
September 2004 Projects
  • Prototyping an online CoP
  • Non-office workers online community
  • The reluctant CoP
January 2005 projects
  • Measuring value of Communities
  • Issues for Crosscultural CoPs
  • Framework of a CoP Handbook
  • Cross-organizational Communities
May 2005 projects
  • Universities and CoPs
  • CoPs in a time challenged world
  • Administrative/facilitation framework
  • CoPs, high security environments, platforms & software
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