community of practice

This past week, I've been learning what works and what doesn't in new-style Communities of Practice, using Facebook-type tools where the members write the content (I mean The Hub, of course!). More precisely, the content kind of falls out of conversations members have with each other. We ask each other questions, compare practices, and hundreds of other community members feed off the answers.

I was asked to give a presentation at Budd UK's offices in central London earlier this week on the subject of "Where's the working in social networking?", prompted by a blog post from Harvard Business School's Thomas Davenport, who claims there is no work value in social networking.

The presentation is in three parts:

1. The human drive to connect

2. The pigeon that blogs (or the real singularity) - a brief look at the technology behind Web 2.0