"communities of practice" (...) Organizations that create an environment that supports their formation are gaining significant benefits in the areas of knowledge transfer, response times and innovation—not a bad return for executives who know when and how to loosen their reins. (...) [B]y linking communities into Collaborative Knowledge Networks, forward-thinking firms are enhancing workforce performance, driving innovation, and speeding their response to change — while reducing costs. (R. Athey, Deloite Consulting).

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Making Sense of Weblogs in the Intranet. This 5mb, 52 page .pdf presentation by Michael Angeles, provides some great points regarding how weblogs can help knowledge management efforts in corporations. (...) I think one of the central messages is one I posted about recently- weblogs are cheap and easy to manage way to distribute authorship and knowledge in an organization. [Common Craft - Online Community Strategies]

Les carnets d'affaires ou professionnels, les listes régionales ou du terroir; les réseaux de pairs et de collaborateurs, les équipes et les rencontres... des écologies d'information, de savoir. Qui sont les propriétaires de nos savoirs, nos expériences ? Nos savoirs ne sont-ils que des outils et des armes ou s'ils ne sont pas aussi ce que nous sommes.

Extraits de Information Ecologies : Using Technology with Heart
call for responsible, informed engagement with technology in local settings, or information ecologies (...) We believe that the lack of broad participation in conversations about technology seriously impoverishes the ways technologies are brought into our everyday lives. Our aim is to show how more people can be more fully engaged in important discussions and decisions about technology. (...) Ch. 4 - Information Ecologies

We consider ourselves critical friends of technology. (...)

Conversations about technology are often positioned at one of two extremes: uncritical acceptance or condemnation. Writers of both technophile and dystopic works often assume that technological change is inevitable - they just feel very differently about it [9].

These two positions stake out the ends of the continuum, but they leave us with poor choices for action. We want to claim a middle ground from which we can carefully consider the impact of technologies without rejecting them wholesale. Ch. 2 - Framing Conversations about Technology

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