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# Communities of Practice resource list 
This page contains links to talks, podcasts, books and accademic papers about communities of practice. Inspired by Lorin's reading lists e.g. [Messiness reading list](https://github.com/lorin/messiness)

Communities are fun, amazing, very powerful and are not obvious or easy to understand. These resources can help you with that.

# Introductions
[Communities of Practice, the Missing Piece of Your Agile Organisation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Owrovki73o) by Emily Webber

For more checkout the insightful [Building Successful Communities of Practice](https://bookshop.org/books/building-successful-communities-of-practice/9780957491939) book also by Emily. This is specifically for creating Communities of Practice in the workplace.

If you need a courage boost, something to help you get started in the first place, checkout [Tribes](https://www.amazon.com/Tribes-We-Need-You-Lead-ebook/dp/B001FA0LAI/) by Seth Godin.

# People
Learn from expert community builders like:

| Name | Social Media     | Books | Papers |
|--------------|------------------|-------|--------|
| Emily Webber | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/ewebber) |  [books](https://www.amazon.com/Building-Successful-Communities-Practice-Webber/dp/095749193X)     |        |
| Jean Lave |                  | [books](https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/352358.Jean_Lave) |  [papers](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jean-Lave) |
| Etienne & Beverly Wenger-Trayner |  [Twitter](https://twitter.com/wengertrayner)    |  [books](https://wenger-trayner.com/books/) | [papers](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Etienne-Wenger-Trayner)  |
| Cormac Russell|[Twitter](https://twitter.com/CormacRussell) | [books and publications](https://www.nurturedevelopment.org/who-we-are/cormac-russell/)| |

# Books
[Building Successful Communities of Practice](https://bookshop.org/books/building-successful-communities-of-practice/9780957491939) by Emily Webber

[Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity](https://bookshop.org/books/communities-of-practice-learning-meaning-and-identity-9780521663632/9780521663632) by Etienne Wenger

[Learning to Make a Difference: Value Creation in Social Learning Spaces](https://bookshop.org/books/learning-to-make-a-difference-value-creation-in-social-learning-spaces/9781108739535) by Etienne & Beverly Wenger-Trayner

[Get Together: How to build a community with your people](https://www.amazon.com/Get-Together-build-community-people/dp/1732265194) by Stripe Press. Learn from many different stories of various community builders, not specifically for the workplace but lots of inspiration.

[Where Good Ideas Come From](https://bookshop.org/books/where-good-ideas-come-from-the-natural-history-of-innovation/9781594485381) not specifically about communities, but you get some ideas of the magic that can happen in communities. Get some different ways to think about CoPs like liquid networks, serendipitous discoveries from from shared spaces like MIT’s building 20 and Microsoft’s building 99.

[Situated Learning](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/655464) the original book by Wenger and Lave where CoPs first came up. A must-read.

**Stil on my reading list:**

[Asset-Based Community Development: An Incomplete Guide](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09P599177) by Cormac Russell

[Social Learning Systems and Communities of Practice](https://rd.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-84996-133-2)

[Community: The Structure of Belonging](https://bookshop.org/books/community-the-structure-of-belonging/9781523095568) by Peter Block

[Cultivating Communities of Practice](https://bookshop.org/books/cultivating-communities-of-practice-a-guide-to-managing-knowledge/9781578513307) by Etienne Wenger, Richard A McDermott and William Snyder

[Communities of practice within and across organizations: a guidebook](https://www.wenger-trayner.com/cop-guidebook/) by  Etienne Wenger-Trayner, Beverly Wenger-Trayner, Phil Reid, Claude Bruderlein

# Talks
[Communities of Practice, the Missing Piece of Your Agile Organisation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Owrovki73o) by Emily Webber

[Embracing Uncertainty - Rhizomatic learning](https://youtu.be/VJIWyiLyBpQ)

[Communities of Practice Keynote ACPE 2018 Conference](https://youtu.be/RWiB97TllLI) Etienne & Beverly Wenger-Trayner

[Communities of Practice 2017](https://youtu.be/fBsFlkGdbOY) Etienne & Beverly Wenger-Trayner

[Communities of Practice Keynote at Walls Optional 2015](https://youtu.be/jB_dOCmfPHc) by Beverly Wenger-Trayner

[Conversation with Bev & Etienne Wenger-Trayner about Social Learning Spaces and their book Learning to Make a Difference](https://youtu.be/FJuF3-BkkNw)

[Social learning theory webinar 2022](https://vimeo.com/756638560/d6b3597838#t=7m20s) by Etienne Wenger-Trayner

[The Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnjGZ4sqxkQ) by [Jessica Kerr](https://twitter.com/jessitron). Get a better idea on the magic that can happen in communities. Learn about London Coffeehouse, Florentine Camerata and [Symmathesy](https://norabateson.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/symmathesy-a-word-in-progress/) (contextual mutual learning through interaction) an idea by [Nora Bateson](https://twitter.com/NoraBateson).

## Origin story
from studying apprenticeships in africa to the concept of communities of practice

[Everyday Life and Learning with Jean Lave ](https://youtu.be/FAYs46icCFs)

[Communities of Practice: Theories and Current Thinking 2014](https://youtu.be/71xF7HTEipo)

# Papers and Articles
[Communities of practice and social learning systems: the career of a concept](https://wenger-trayner.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/09-10-27-CoPs-and-systems-v2.01.pdf) by Etienne Wenger

[The Strength of Weak Ties ](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2776392) by Mark S. Granovetter + [Strong and Weak Ties](https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/networks-book-ch03.pdf) learn about the power of weak ties and why we need them. Diversity, access to different information, skills, relationships and perspectives. Reaching harder and more distant parts of the network.

[The Seven Habits of Highly Connected People” Hindsight Magazine (32)](https://www.nurturedevelopment.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/6103.pdf) by [Cormac Russell]()

[Evolution of Wenger's concept of community of practice](https://implementationscience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1748-5908-4-11)

[Structural and Epistemic Parameters in Communities of Practice](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247824282_Structural_and_Epistemic_Parameters_in_Communities_of_Practice) talks about how organisations can support CoPs without constraining them by controlling them in a way that disrupts the dynamics that make the community work in the first place. It differentiates between different structures and the delicate balance between seeding structures and controlling structures. A few teasers:
- CoPs need seeding structure to grow
- Summarises some of the original material from Wenger of what is a CoP and how do you know one has formed.
- importance of artifacts as points of focus for people to identify and interact
- incentives and how they changed over time with a change of the structure
- danger of becoming too introspective losing touch with the wider organisation context

[The fractal structure of communities of practice: Implications for business organization](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341034794_The_fractal_structure_of_communities_of_practice_Implications_for_business_organization) by Emily Webber and Robin Dunbar. What size community can benefit from a leadership team structure?

Collaborative Processes and Knowledge Creation in Communities-of-Practice (paywall)

# Podcast episodes
[Making Tech Better podcast episode Communities of Practice, with Emily Webber](https://www.madetech.com/resources/podcasts/episode-12-emily-webber/)

[Applying Social Learning Theory to Learning Design with Etienne & Beverly Wenger-Trayner](https://open.spotify.com/episode/4BtKgkVyGqEhp7suBBy8qZ?si=8eb2f174736b463e)

[Learning from Communities: A Conversation with Cormac Russell](bit.ly/HSCormac) by Steven Shorrock

[Legitimate peripheral participation: the book and the idea](https://open.spotify.com/episode/1xK3AcdZkJHwpLE56lgySv?si=7cf08ae0c9b6427e) by Brian Marick from [Oddly Influenced podcast](https://podcast.oddly-influenced.dev/)

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