Facilitation lessons learnt
There is part of my work that I hasn’t been writing much about over last two years. Not because it’s so confidential, but because most of the complexities that I had to face and to learn from are still...
View ArticleOpen issues for research/thinking on communities
Had a pleasure to talk with Nancy on her work on technologies for communities. Some things are still hanging out in my head, so I guess I just write them here to move on. Open issues for...
View ArticleInternet Research 9.0: the highlights
For quite a while I’ve been on a conference abstinence track – not submitting papers and limiting attendance in order not to get distracted from the PhD writing. That’s said, I’m extremely happy...
View ArticleBlog as a nexus of multimembership and accidental brokering
This is a piece from the current version of final chapter of my dissertation where I discuss blogging across various boundaries. It draws heavily on the conceptual categories from the work of Etienne...
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Blogs as boundary objects
This is a piece from the current version of final chapter of my dissertation where I discuss blogging across various boundaries. It draws heavily on the conceptual categories from the work of Etienne...
View ArticleCommunities and coffee with Nancy White on 5 October
Nancy White is one of the people I turn to when looking for an expertise on online communities: she is well grounded in theory, but, most important, she mastered the art and craft of facilitating...
View ArticleSome thoughts on #KM4Dev
It’s nice to be a newcomer – you can go around, say that you are new and don’t know much and ask stupid questions. This is what I have been doing at KM4Dev meeting so far. It’s always nice and strange...
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Accelerated leadership trajectories in communities of practice
This is something that have been in the blogging pipeline for a while, but thanks to the conversations with John Smith I actually finished it :) A couple of months ago I went through two different, but...
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Teams, communities and networks in terms of communication forms
While I came with the communication egg model to talk about things missing in distributed teams I feel that it could be useful in more contexts. In particularly to talk about the differences between...
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On homeschooling, integration and Dutch
Netherlands, thank you and goodbye – This one came on FB and on It’s written by Kai-Ting Huang, a Taiwaneese user experience designer who left Netherlands after four years on study and work. She...
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