Tools and Resources

Community Organizers Summit

• Community Organizers Summit Notes
• Helpful resources for Community of Practice Leaders

Tools you can use to support interactions among community members

• Slack:
  • http://stanfordcop.slack.com/signup
• Web Site:
  • Stanford Sites (Drupal) http://sites.stanford.edu
• Stanford Web Infrastructure Tools:
  • http://tools.stanford.edu
• Mailing Lists:
  • http://lists.stanford.edu
  • http://groups.google.com
• Wikis:
  • http://asconfluence.stanford.edu
  • http://medwiki.stanford.edu
• Document storage and sharing:
  • http://stanford.box.com
  • AFS http://itservices.stanford.edu/service/afs
• Document creation and sharing:
  • http://webdocs.stanford.edu
• Blogs:
  • http://itservices.stanford.edu/service/web/wordpress
• Tech Commons:
  • http://techcommons.stanford.edu/

Tony notes good diagram of types of tools https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aLxlSSywUAMWydbRO8jLLyUhL73ttwzWV9cQXjdj0lM/edit

Further Reading

• Lave and Wenger. Situated Learning : Legitimate Peripheral Participation. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
• Cultivating Communities of Practice: a Guide to Managing Knowledge. By Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, and William Snyder, Harvard Business School Press, 2002.
• Brown and Duguid. The Social Life of Information. Boston, Massachusetts : Harvard Business Review Press, 2017. (originally published in 2002.)
• http://www.ewenger.com/theory/
• http://wenger-trayner.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/06-Brief-introduction-to-communities-of-practice.pdf
• http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/2855.html - Cultivating Communities, the Seven Principles
• Supporting communities of practice: a survey of community-oriented technologies. By Etienne Wenger. Self-published report available at www.ewenger.com/tech, 2001.
• Communities of practice: the organizational frontier. By Etienne Wenger and William Snyder. Harvard Business Review. January-February 2000, pp. 139-145.
• Knowledge management is a donut: shaping your knowledge strategy with communities of practice. By Etienne Wenger. Ivey Business Journal, January 2004.
• Cultivating Communities of Practice: Making Them Grow (YouTube video)
• Community of Practice (CoP) success story (YouTube video)