ECCoP: European Collaborative for Communities of Practice

Thu, 08/12/2010 - 21:33 — Erik van Bekkum

We blog to grow a theory, a practice, and a community dedicated to enhance value creation by communities of practice. This blog is an experiment in social innovation.We intend to grow it into a many-voice publishing channel to host a self-organizing network of conversations among

Ways to diversify innovation communities

Thu, 08/12/2010 - 19:40 — Erik van Bekkum

In a recent posting about the influence of 'diversity in innovation communities', I tried to elaborate on the role of this key element in the success of getting innovation results in a community. My conclusion, which was supported by a recent project I did with such a community, says that:

- Diversity is needed to create an innovation environment in the community

- Diversity leads mostly to increases interest and activity, opening up more opportunities for innovation to occur

Community of Practice Knowledge Garden

Wed, 07/21/2010 - 09:21 — Erik van Bekkum

The CoP knowledge Garden contains more than 90 Community of Practice reference documents, articles and ways for learning about situated learning. The most important external publications we keep o n file, for archiving and referencing purposes, in case they are replaced or lost in future.

Social Roles in online communities: structural signatures, visualization and structures

Tue, 08/17/2010 - 14:30 — Erik van Bekkum

Social roles in online discussion forums can be described by patterned characteristics of communication between network members which we conceive of as ‘structural signatures.' This paper uses visualization methods to reveal these structural signatures and regression analysis to confirm the relationship between these signatures and their associated roles in Usenet newsgroups. Our analysis focuses on distinguishing the signatures of one role from others, the role of “answer people." Answer people are individuals whose dominant behavior is to respond to questions posed by other users.

How to incentivise knowledge sharing and knowledge exchange?

Tue, 08/17/2010 - 12:38 — Erik van Bekkum

Don't incentivise it; or at least, not directly. Instead, make Knowledge Sharing part of "doing a good job", and incentivise doing a good job.

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