When I was in London late last year, I was pleased to have an opportunity to record a video interview with Faith Wainwright of Arup. Gold winners of the 2010 Intranet Innovation Awards, their skills ...
Articles tagged: communities of practice
Alstom: communities of practice
When I was recently in Europe, one of my stops was Paris, for an intranet breakfast event organised by Jane McConnell. This brought together some of France's biggest companies to talk about intranets, and it was a great morning. One of the presentations was by Alstom, talking about their efforts ...
How to empower authors
In most organisations authors are vital to the effectiveness of the intranet. Despite this, authors are often given the task of updating content with little or no thought to their skills, suitability or desire. Intranet teams generally have little influence over who becomes an author. As intranets mature and become ...
CoPs 101
Kim Sbarcea has pointed to some very useful introductory resources on communities of practice. To quote: Once again, I find myself in need of explaining CoPs (communities of practice) to people I’m working with. I’ve been working with CoPs since 2002 in the same organisation. There’s been the usual ups ...
