Solo Salon | Notes on Methodology for Communities of Practice

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An organizational form I am seeing across a few overlapping socio-professional spheres lately is the community of practice. Loosely (and so far largely implicitly) defined as an informal and recurring gathering of individuals who share a common occupation or interest, these communities convene primarily to facilitate knowledge exchange, peer feedback, and professional development, all with an underlying emphasis on practice. Seeing as these communities often coalesce in an entrepreneurial or otherwise enterprising context, be it nonprofit or for-profit, they often default toward a startup-like operational mindset as they navigate opportunities of growth. That said, I wonder whether the organizational modality of the startup, or even of the corporation or shared enterprise more broadly, truly lends itself to the types of value creation and exchange particular to communities of practice. That is, individuals who find themselves in a nascent community of practice, may feel the need to for

Notes on Methodology for Communities of Practice Canvas Foreword The following content is a discursive “canvassing” exercise intended to: process ideas and prime them for more formal publication; foreground thought processes in the spirit of auto-discourse; see: A Primer on Auto-Discourse ; garner feedback from peers; establish conceptual provenance for ideonomic archiving purposes. An organizational form I am seeing across a few overlapping socio-professional spheres lately is the community of practice. Loosely (and so far largely implicitly) defined as an informal and recurring gathering of

Solo Salon | Notes on Methodology for Communities of Practice

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