efios     Efios home Weblog     The efios blog: "It's all about people and networks"       29 August 2003 SAP introduces community of practice to accelerate products, and blog Shai Agassi from SAP announced to use communities of practice (though sometimes he just referred to as 'networks') to: ..facilitate the transfer of knowledge and information among all of the various technical groups who are working with SAP NetWeaver and SAP xApps. SAP customers, partners and newcomers to the SAP ecosystem will find detailed technical information on evaluating, implementing, using and building with these technologies.. Not only that, but SAP also seems to include blog technology in their suite of collaborative tools. In their internal blog Vis Naidu makes a strange statement: In the endless pursuit of creating a more manageable Portal, segregating content by interest group or organizational unit could be the most ideal approach! (read it in his entry 'Communities of Practice' - could they be the solution to better Portal content management ? if you can) To be continued..   This happened at 12:24:23 AM  Ideas and comments to this [] or trackback [] © Copyright 2005 Erik van Bekkum. August 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             Jul   Sep Blog categories: (All) innovation Social Networks Blogging Blogroll: [Macro error: Could not open the url, "http://www.efios.com/blog/gems/blogroll.opml", because it could not be converted to an outline.] 25 most recent: 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: ... NGMTI communities of practice Communities and change agents Informal learning and communities CITSA 2005 - Information Systems Analysis and I-KN... PhD Seminar in Copenhagen Business School Community of Practice in technology platforms The Encyclopedia of Virtual Communities and Techno... Workflow learning Using virtual communities in marketing APQC's blog on KM and Communities of Practice