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Summer SchoolSummer SchoolCollaboration: an individual Collaboration: an individual

or a group experience?or a group experience?

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Pablo Picasso or George Braque?

We are collaborating when we..

• believe that the outcome of collaboration will be better than what we could accomplish on our own

• actively seek people to collaborate with

• share ideas and techniques

• experiment with ideas that come from another

• build on others’ ideas whether or not we initially agree with them

• ................................................. ?

Collaboration is a culture, a mindset, and a way of being in the world.

Collaboration is not a set of tools, activities or techniques.

Identity

Unknowing

Relationship

Flow

Reciprocity

Community: people, their informal

relationships, trust and connections

Domain: shared passion and experiences about a

domain that give a sense of identity

Practice: context for ongoing exchange,

accumulating knowledge and access to community

stories

Community of Practice: a social discipline of learning

leadership sponsorship

members participation

Learning together

nurturing support

COMMUNITY: attentionto “small things” and socialprocesses; back-channel

communication; time; trust; networking...

DOMAIN: visibility; hold it up to the outside;

easy for members to “publish” and see

patterns and connections

PRACTICE: regular, linked events not bound by time and

space; notice and mirror practices that work...

How do we nurture collaboration in a Community of Practice?

contextcontext

occasional

transactional

peripheral

active

coordinator

core group

lurkers

leaders

sponsors

experts

beginners

alumni

outsiders

Etienne Wenger

How do we manage multi-membership and

multiple identities?

Collaboration in networks

Identity/ Anonymity

Unknowing/ Knowing

Relationship/ Solitary

Flow/Interruption Reciprocity/

Self-interest

The question is more “how do we discover, support and extend the collaboration that is already happening?” rather

than “how do we motivate people to collaborate?”

Beverly Trayner www.eudamonia.pt

Collaboration, pictures and stimulation from:

Nancy White: http://www.fullcirc.com/weblog

Etienne Wenger: http://ewenger.com

Patti Anklam (http://www.pattianklam.com/)

David Wilcox: http://www.designingforcivilsociety.org/

The Bumble Bee: http://www.bioteams.com

MIT Center for Collective Intelligence: http://cci.mit.edu/