Some of the other stuff is questionable also – there is a large amount of “counter” research just emerging about this.

There are lots of nice things about it, but for now I would just say that the juxtaposition of the material (which you can see growing under your gaze on the wiki) and your running commentary (in your blog) is wonderfully explanatory and stands to help any other community which might be minded to do something similar.

Colleagues in the NHSScotland eLibrary have been supporting health-oriented Communities of Practice for some while now, via ‘Shared Spaces’ (see the box on http://tinyurl.com/6pa4yc ) and have been collating a Guide to developing a CoP. But I think they/we have plenty to learn from your approach (maybe even join in! – though a national health service might not quite be the sort of ‘non-profit’ that people are used to thinking about

One possibly useful resource for now: ‘How Good is our Network?’(at http://tinyurl.com/6gy32u ) – as you might think, it’s a sort of diagnostic check list.

thanks again – all power to your elbow.
Peter

thanks for linking to the NTEN project I’m leading. I’m also writing a regular reflection piece on my blog about the process – called working wikily.

You can find some of the posts here:
http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/working_wikily/

Always minded of the last scene in the Graduate, on the bus, after they’ve raced out of the marriage service, where the camera zooms in on Dustin Hoffman’s face and he’s thinking “s£^t!, what do I do next…?”

We’ll have to see how the widgets go – response so far seems to be OK, but it’s a big change to how people expect to feedback to government.
I guess we’re challenging the role of representative organisations who would normally collate and manage feedback from their constituents, as well as policy teams in government.

I’d be interested to know who you are!

thanks
Steph