Interview about communities of practice

I was interviewed about Communities of Practice in relation to the CoP on Innovation and Mainstreaming  and these were the questions I was asked:

• We are finding it a challenge developing our CoP. Is that something normal?
• If the potential participants in the CoP don’t recognise the advantages of participating in it, is there any advantage in creating and developing it?
• If learning and sharing are not sufficient motivation, are there other strategies for mobilising participants?
• Our face-to-face meetings have been more mobilising and more fruitful than the online communication. Doesn’t that mean that there should be more face-to-face in the starting period? (This is the one I referred to in "Let's meet ... ")
• People complain that they don’t have time to dedicate to the CoP, but they have time to travel to face-to-face meetings. What is your comment on this apparent contradiction?

I also recorded a Skype interview (on Evoca) with Nancy White to get an examples or stories of some of her experiences, which is at the end of the interview.

Comments

[magda]

Hi, Bev! Great to listen to the conversation with Nancy on evoca!

[Beverly Trayner]

Hey Magda! Yes, conversations really liven things up, don't they. I should be using audio a bit more. And it's always great to hear a conversation with Nancy!