707- BYOL: Creating an Online Community of Practice Using LinkedIn Maureen Murphy, PhD Dr. Maureen. Gmail.com WITS Tool Kits.com (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

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Remember the school lunch table… one of our first self directed communities (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

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A Snapshot Comparison Communities of Practice, formal work groups, teams, and informal networks are useful in complementary ways. What's the purpose? Who belongs? What holds it together? How long does it last? Community of Practice To develop members' capabilities; to build and exchange knowledge Members who select themselves Passion, commitment, and identification with the group's expertise As long as there is an interest in maintaining the group Formal work group To deliver a product or service Everyone who reports to the group's manager Job requirements and common goals Until the next reorganization Project team To accomplish a task Employees assigned by senior management The project's milestones and goals Until the project has been completed Informal network To collect and pass on business information Friends and business acquaintances Mutual needs As long as people have a reason to connect Excerpted from the article "Communities of Practice: The Organizational Frontier" in the Harvard Business Review, January-February (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

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Who – Passionate Practitioners 1% Heavy Contributors Users who contribute often 9% Intermittent Contributors Users who observe and occasionally contribute 90% Lurkers Users who observe but don’t contribute (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

Who – Mean Green Lantern Heavy Contributors - Users who contribute often (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

Who – Mean Green Lantern Intermittent Contributors - Users who observe and occasionally contribute (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

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How? Plan and Prepare HS teachers adding gaming into learning 2 4 (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

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How? Create an OCOP (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

How? Create an OCOP 2. Click the Groups link from the drop down of Interests (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

How? Create an OCOP 3. Click on Create a Group button. (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

How? Create an OCOP 4. Complete on screen form. (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

How? Create an OCOP Open or Closed? The main difference is who can see the discussions. Members-only group discussions can only be seen by other group members. Open group discussions can be seen by anyone on the web and can be shared on other social networking platforms (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

How? Closed, Members Only In members-only (closed) groups: There's a padlock icon next to the group name. You must be a LinkedIn member to join. Discussions won't show up in search engine results. Discussions are visible to group members only. The group manager has the option to switch to an open group. This change can only be made once and cannot be undone. Members are notified if the group is switched to an open group. (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

How? Open OCOPs There isn't a padlock icon next to the group name. You must be a LinkedIn member to join. Discussions created before switching to an open group are archived and visible to group members only. Discussions created after switching to an open group are searchable and visible to anyone on the web. Discussions can be shared using social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. Group managers have the option to allow LinkedIn members who aren't group members to contribute (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

Your OCOP – build your community! (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

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References 1. Pears, Iain An Instance of the Fingerpost. London: Jonathan Cape. 2. Wellman, B (1999). "Networks in the global village: life in contemporary communities" Retrieved January 29, Wenger, E. (2007). Communities of practice: A brief introduction. Retrieved January 29, 2013, from 4. Wenger, E. (2001). Supporting communities of practice: A survey of community-oriented technologies Retrieved January 29, 2013, from 5. Gray, B. (2004). Informal Learning in an Online Community of Practice. Journal of Distance Education/Revue de l'enseignement à distance, 19(1), Excerpted from the article "Communities of Practice: The Organizational Frontier" in the Harvard Business Review, January-February Gunawardena, Charlotte N. et al. (2009). A theoretical framework for building online communities of practice with social networking tools. Educational Media International 46(1), Seely Brown, John; Duguid, Paul (1991). "Organizational learning and communities-of-practice: Toward a unified view of working, learning and innovation". Organization Science 2 (1). JSTOR Davenport, Thomas H.; Prusak, Lawrence (2000). Working knowledge. How organizations manage what they know, 2nd Edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press. ISBN Preece, J. (2004). Etiquette, Empathy and Trust in Communities of Practice: Steppingstones to Social Capital. Journal of Universal Computer Science, 10(3), Gunawardena, Charlotte N. et al. (2009). A theoretical framework for building online communities of practice with social networking tools. Educational Media International. 46(1), Preece, J., Nonnecke, B. and Andrews, D. (2004). The top five reasons for lurking: improving community experiences for everyone. Computers in Human Behavior. 20(2), Wenger, E., McDermott, R., and Snyder, W., (2002). Cultivating Communities of Practice: 14. A Guide to Managing Knowledge. Retrieved January 29, 2012, from content/uploads/2011/03/0143_Platforms-and-Tools-march-2011.pdf Retrieved February 4, Wenger, E., McDermott, R., and Snyder, W., (2002). Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge. Retrieved January 29, 2012, from Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1994), 45, The Age of Participation (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, R. McDermott, "Why Information Technology Inspired, but Cannot Deliver Knowledge Management," California Management Review 41, no. 3 (1999) The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993) 20. Time and Transition Work Teams: Toward a New Model of Group Development, Academy of Management Journal 31, no. 1 (1988): (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits