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A Community of Practice Is More Than a Website

Social Media Strategery

A community of practice (CoP) is, according to cognitive anthropologists Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger , a group of people who share an interest, a craft, and/or a profession. Sounds like we might already be members of dozens of communities of practice – at work, at church, at school, etc. A website is built around content.

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Lawyers, In Addition To Being Smart, You Need These 4 Characteristics

Myrland Marketing

I know this because I’ve worked with lawyers since 1997, first in-house as a director of marketing and then out on my own since 2002. We want to see content that has a lot of views on it on LinkedIn. They don’t want to read my content. Sometimes that means that you’re also a curator of content.

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Get Your Social Media Story Straight | Blogging and Content.

Convince & Convert

If Your Story is Inconsistent, At Least Leverage Your Content Ouch. But, it’s widely disparate content usage across social outposts that’s the real mystery. It’s a good mix of coach-speak, highlights, community service footage, and cheerleader features. Why isn’t the Manifesto it’s own tab?

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10 Things I Wish I Had Known About Blogging When I First Began

ProBlogger

I’ve learned some pretty huge lessons along the way, and back when I started in 2002 there were quite a few things I wish I’d known! Could I have a go at building a community around a blog even though I had zero experience and probably more important things to do? Why was anyone doing it? Why was anyone doing it?

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12 kinds of Knowledge Workers

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Effective communications also includes how we interrelate with the needs of people who have communication disabilities such as the blind and vision-impaired. Updated: 12/08/2002; 12:50:46 AM. Saturday, November 23, 2002. You love classifying knowledge and organizing content into taxonomies. 2:55:05 PM.

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Joomla! Surpasses 15 Million Downloads

Bill Hartzer

the industry’s leading open source content management system (CMS), has been downloaded more than 15 million times from JoomlaCode. In addition, the Community Oversight Committee has elected several new board members including Steve Burge, Javier Gomez, Marko Milenovic, Jacques Rentzke, Robert Deutz and Akarawuth Tamrareang.

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A Death In The Family. Missing Michael O'Connor Clark

Twist Image

I joined Twist Image in 2002. Still, there were enough marketing bloggers (or people dabbling in the comment section) that a strong and passionate community was evolving. On one of those Toronto trips, we wound up heading out to a tech meet-up, where I was exposed to the grit of the Toronto tech community. communications.

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