Collaborative Communities of Practice 2004 Online Conference



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	September 14-16, 2004

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Collaborative Communities of Practice 2004

New Approaches for Fostering Learning and Knowledge Sharing

Program

The program is designed to provide practical insights, models and tools for fostering, growing and supporting Communities of Practice.

Topics are introduced through streaming narrated presentations connected to a discussion area that allows participants to interact any time over the course of the conference. The program also includes scheduled daily real time events including online chats, webinars, and teleconferences.

Schedule of Events

Tuesday, September 14
5 AM US PT	Conference site opens at 5:00 am US Pacific Time
	Click HERE for a brief overview of how to participate in the online conference.
	Prerecorded Presentation by Vicki Suter will be available beginning 5:00 am US Pacific Time. You can view the presentation, contribute comments, and post questions in the presenter’s conference room anytime.
8 AM	Orientation
9 AM Web Conference	Hubert Saint-Onge -Communities of Practice in the Context of a Knowledge Strategy
4 PM Happy Hour Chat	Integration of Communities of Practice

Communities of Practice in the Context of a Knowledge Strategy
Hubert Saint-Onge
Principal, Saint Onge Alliance

Hubert Saint Onge will speak from his experience on:

How do you define them?
How do you justify them?
How do CoP’s contribute to learning?
How do you best leverage them?
How do you get them started?
How do you build their momentum?

Coherence & Continuity: Weaving Together the Virtual and F2F Community Experience
Vicki Suter
Director, National Learning Infrastructure Initiative

The NLII’s 2-year experience with virtual communities of practice (VCOPs) reinforces the established definitions regarding sustainable purposes such as the sharing of common concerns, working together to fulfill personal & group goals, and interacting on an ongoing basis to deepen knowledge and improve practice. The NLII also sees a VCOP as a social place collectively created through the weaving together of face-to-face meetings and the community’s use of electronic media and web-based collaborative environments to communicate, connect, collaborate, and ultimately, transform practice and generate knowledge. This session will explore community activities that build relationships, create energy and engagement, support the emergence and ongoing reinforcement of community presence, help the community “organize around purposeful actions”, and result in the coherence and continuity necessary for a healthy community.

Wednesday, September 15
5 AM US PT	Three New Prerecorded Presentations by Richard McDermott, Bronwyn Stuckey, and Scott Ackerman with Laurie Maslak will be available beginning 5:00 am. You can view the presentations, contribute comments, and post questions in the presenters' conference rooms anytime.
3 PM Teleconference	Bronwyn Stuckey
5 PM Happy Hour Chat	Scott Ackerman and Laurie Maslak

Healthy Communities
Richard McDermott, PhD
Consultant, McDermott Consulting

Dr. McDermott describes how the concept of communities of practice has evolved and the characteristics of healthy, mature communities. His observations are based on an assessment of over 50 communities in the oil, technical consulting, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, and defense industries. By comparing healthy and unhealthy communities across industries, he has identified what makes a community healthy and what companies, community leaders and community organizers can do to support them.

The Fundamentals of Establishing Communities of Practice Online
Bronwyn Stuckey
MEd, BEd, GD Ed Studies START
Faculty, University of Wollongong, Australia

This session delivers the findings of a three year research program case studying successful Internet-mediated communities of practice (IMCoPs). The findings offer advice on the fundamental conditions required to design implement and sustain IMCoPs. This research has proven very valuable whether you are charged with intentionally developing new communities, leveraging the value of an existing one or taking an established community online.

This session will briefly describe several IMCoP cases and then unpack the findings of the case study research in terms of their importance for community designers, managers and facilitators.

Practicality to Passion
Scott Ackerman,
Senior Global Program Manager, Professions Program, Hewlett-Packard
and
Laurie Maslak,
Consultant, Edging Leadership

Most of us are familiar with the concept of Communities of Practice, in which people with common interests come together to share knowledge, increase capacity, and establish contacts. But what if you could channel this energy for the betterment of your business, community, or society? Learn how to transform your Community of Practice into a Community of Significance by examining examples ranging from a small community to a multi-billion dollar company to the natural world. This session will focus on practices, outcomes, and learnings.

Thursday, September 16
5 AM US PT	Two New Prerecorded Presentations by Soren Kaplan and Jeff De Cagna will be available. You can view the presentations, contribute comments, and post questions in the presenters' conference rooms anytime

1 PM Happy Hour Chat	Soren Kaplan - Conference Wrap-up

Online Communities for Organizational Change and Learning
Soren Kaplan
Co-Founder, iCohere

More and more organizations recognize the power of online communities for supporting strategic change and innovation-focused initiatives. Learn the latest in how the artful integration of virtual and face-to-face group processes can facilitate collaboration, knowledge sharing, learning and organizational change. Through real life examples from the Environmental Protection Agency, World Vision International, Case Western Reserve University, and other organizations, this presentation provides a variety of approaches and tools for designing, launching, facilitating and managing online communities of practice that lead to real organizational results.

Start with a Small, Safe Test: Experimenting with Communities of Practice in Associations
Jeff De Cagna
Chief Strategist and Founder, Principled Innovation LLC

In recent months, many association leaders have become interested in leveraging the strategic value of communities of practice, but are unsure how to go about doing it. Associations often lack the financial and staff resources to launch communities of practice on a large scale basis. And some associations rely too heavily on sophisticated yet costly technology tools to initiate CoPs on the premise of "if you build it, they will come." This presentation will explain to association leaders how to develop a manageable strategic experiment with communities of practice that will help to develop a deeper organizational capacity for community building and create a platform for long-term success!

Still not sure if you should register? Consider the benefits:

	One-tenth the cost of traditional conferences
	Flexible event schedule - attend anytime during the week
	Downloadable presentations & practical resources
	Connect directly with experts
	Network with other attendees
	Group discounts


"The concepts and approaches I was exposed to at the online conference were highly relevant and immediately useful on the job. Great going!"
	Ronald Kantor, Learning Architecture Group, Accenture

"The online conference allowed me to participate on my own schedule, save travel time and costs, and come away with new knowledge, practical resources and new relationships. I'd definitely attend again."
	Laura Hofstetter, Director of Web Education, Barry University

Collaborative Communities of Practice is produced by iCohere, Inc.