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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. Sounds pretty simple, right?

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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. You can get organized and do something creative like that. Would More Focused, Sequential Training In A Private Monthly Online VIP Community He Helpful To You or Your Lawyers?

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Joomla! Surpasses 15 Million Downloads

Bill Hartzer

OSM), the not-for-profit organization that supports the Joomla! 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. and a thriving third-party developer community.&#.

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Kpop Lessons: Handling Defamation Through Public Relations

Waxing UnLyrical

Earlier this year, Korean netizens questioned the academic credentials of musician Tablo , pen name Daniel Armand Lee, who graduated from Stanford University in 2002. Consider that the TaJinYo online community had over 131,000 members in September; imagine how much larger the community would have been had Tablo stayed silent on the matter.

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Knowledge work as craft work

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Jim McGee, April 1, 2002. How do we reuse knowledge assets more broadly in the organization? How do we raise the standard of practice in the organization to that of the best units? As an aside, Etienne Wengers excellent work on communities of practice (e.g., McGees Musings. The cure for boredom is curiosity.

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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. 1:22:30 AM.

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The most basic question then is how are international agreements defined.

Writtent Blog

Since 2002 a total of 40 missions have taken place over the U.K. 12] Also since 2002 the U.K. 12] Also since 2002 the U.K. If an organizations customers sign up electronically, theyre responsible for verifying that the personal and/or banking information given actually belongs to them.