PUBLIC MARKS with tags cop & examples

"The AME APQC Benchmarking CoP is an informal, organically grown CoP made up of individuals interested in benchmarking and related topics. "

I include this as a negative example, since I can't see how this qualifies as a community of practice...

"The BPM/SOA Community Of Practice (CoP) is an advocacy group comprised of practitioners, service providers and technology vendors dedicated to promoting the business value, and enabling the successful adoption, of Business Process Management (BPM) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) by the Global 1000, major government agencies and midmarket businesses."

Another example of a job posting relating to the creating of a CoP: "Through the South-East Asia (SEA) Change project, Pact seeks to establish an active Southeast Asia community of practice (COP) for monitoring and evaluation of climate change interventions in which members innovate and apply measurement approaches, methods and tools resulting in demonstrable solutions to climate change. "

I included this because of the mention of CoP in the job description: " In addition, the process analyst will contribute to the development of modelling standards and to the development of a processmodelling community of practice within the university." Who says only KM folks need to know about CoPs!

News item mentions a Multicultural Teaching Community of Practice created at Indiana University that "was created several years ago when several faculty members raised concerns about how to best reach all students on the IUPUI Campus"

Seems to center on conferences, but the older CoP pages mention a mailing list, etc...

News item on a report by the Early Grade Learning Community of Practice

"Jasig, a consortium that sponsors open source projects for higher education, has started a new community of practice explicitly focused on helping institutions understand how to exploit open source software."