efios     Efios home Weblog     The efios blog: "It's all about people and networks"       23 May 2003 Communities of practice as a social movement Why communities of practice have the potential to be a social movement that can make a lasting change: Communities of Practice span business, social, knowledge and techology Communities of Practice creates and re-creates an area of social responsibility, ownership and belonging Communities of Practice as a social movement is about trust, not about friendship, equality or liberation The first two points were quite obvious to me but I came to realize that the third point is actually what will be the differentiation between communities and long-gone other social movements (inspired by CP Week) This happened at 11:42:17 PM  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 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