efios     Efios home Weblog     The efios blog: "It's all about people and networks"       22 May 2003 Trust relationship between the community and formal organization Trust, says Etienne Wenger, does not only exist between members of the community but also between the community and the (formal) organization. If the trust relationship is profound and well-established, you can use that relationship to mutually beneft. He mentioned the example of the Daimler-Chrysler tech clubs, where the organization had to shave off 15% of the budget throughout the business units. In seeing how this substantial reduction could be reached, the communities had an important role in consulting the formal organization (BU's) where and how to make this happen. In this example it becomes apparent where communities have become part of the organization as a body, that lives in the ecosystem of formal institutions, and has it's own power and value contribution. Trust is essential in this relationship. This happened at 7:18:17 PM  Ideas and comments to this [] or trackback [] Leadership in communities Good discussion inCP Week about leadership and communities of practice: Greag Searle said "recognizing and establishing (some sort of-) roles in the community will help speed up the evolution of the community, because you establish some framework. The downside is that you can get locked into roles because roles have been established and not spontaneously emerged from the participants" Margaret Rudolf on the roles of the community and leadership: "there is a creative tension between the assigned roles (funded roles, formalized) and the people that take upon leadership themselves - at any level (organic). This tension is almost inevitable and something that should be observed by the community support team - ask yourself how much you formalize roles and how much you recognize roles at any stage of the community lifecycle." This happened at 7:12:16 PM  Ideas and comments to this [] or trackback [] Academic communities blog Debby Kilburn has been blogging about CP Week as well. We have decided to continue our discussions about communities in the educational world as a blogging venture to find commonalities, stories, thoughts and ideas. We're doing this together with Lisa Petrides from the ISKME institute (also from KM Cluster) - who does not have a blog at this time yet. The objective is to create a blog which would support free forming ideas to emerge by sharing insights from different backgrounds and inclinations, creating value by weaving seemingly disparate differences together from cases and stories and finding new ways to leverage succcess for academic communities. This happened at 7:20:53 AM  Ideas and comments to this [] or trackback [] Leadership in communities (Etienne) Etienne Wenger in the closing notes for todays event: "Leadership in a community is not about a single person, but merely an ecosystem of leadership on different levels by different people" This happened at 6:46:21 AM  Ideas and comments to this [] or trackback [] © Copyright 2005 Erik van Bekkum. May 2003 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat         1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Apr   Jun Blog categories: (All) Innovation Social Networks Blogging Knowledge Garden: Communities Social Networks Blogroll: Daily reads Blog of CI Patti Anklam Andy Boyd Georg Siemens Lilia Efimova Debby at Pepperdine Renee Hopkins Dave Pollard on BI Ton Zijlstra (Engish) Ton Zijlstra (Dutch) Social software channel Stephanie Allen's COP^2 Matt's blog Joe Corthrel Ross Mayfield Sam Ruby Staurt Henshall Terry Frazier Chris McRae David Gurteen 25 most recent: Double - loop learning and social learning Systems... Social networks and country-to-country transfer: d... Efios launched Rail Safe The Google Legacy Yahoo! patents (parts of) social networks: Method ... Social Capital in Virtual Learning Communities The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving The reciprocity of innovative capabilities Knowledge Garden and Research whiteboard to RSS Social Network Analysis at BHP Intervision and communities of practice Weak ties in communities of practice Corporate SNA in CIO magazine Introduction to UCINET and social network methods The navigational aspects of social networks Blended Learning in KM Supporting Pioneering Leaders as Communities of Pr... WHO uses communities of practice to achieving univ... Communities for Project Offices Power struggle in radical innovation communities Xwiki, the MT of Wikis? Workshop Report on the Theory and Practice of Phys... Inquiry: Learning begins with Questions Deadline for VC2005 on the 30th of May Learning for development (Organizational Learning) ICTs and Social Capital in the Knowledge Society: ...