Readings & Resources

Articles:

“A Little Help from Friends of Friends,” Anthony dePalma, New York Times March 9, 2003

"The People Who Make Organizations Go--or Stop," by Laurence Prusak; Rob Cross, Harvard Business Review June 2002

"Knowing What We Know," by Rob Cross, Andrew Parker, Laurence Prusak, and Stephen P. Borgatti, conference at Batten Institute, Darden School, University of Virginia.

"Six Myths About Informal Networks and How To Overcome Them" by Rob Cross, Nitin Nohria and Andrew Parker in Sloan Management Review

“Quantum Theory of Trust,” Karen Stephenson, Booz-Allen’s strategy+business

“Network Theory’s New Math,” Michael Schrage Booz-Allen’s strategy+business

"Designs for Working," Malcolm Gladwell, New Yorker Magazine

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Books
The Hidden Power of Social Networks, Rob Cross and Andrew Parker, Harvard Business School Press, 2004

The Social Life of Information, John Seeley Brown and Paul Duguid, Harvard Business School Press, 2000.

Creating Value with Knowledge: Insights from the IBM Institute for Business Value, Eric Lesser and Laurence Prusak (Editors), Oxford University Press, 2004

The Wisdom of Crowds, James Surowiecki, Doubleday, 2004

Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, Howard Rheingold, Basic Books, 2002

Networks in the Knowledge Economy, Lisa Sasson, Rob Cross, Andrew Parker, Oxford University Press, 2003

Six Degrees, The Science of the Connected Age, Duncan J. Watts, W.W. Norton, 2003

Nexus, Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks, Mark Buchanan, Norton, 2002

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown, 2000 (Now out in Paperback)

Linked, The New Science of Networks, Albert-László Barabási, Perseus Publishing 2002

Achieving Success Through Social Capital, Tapping the Hidden Resources in Your Personal and Business Networks, Wayne Baker, Jossey Bass Publishers, 2000.

In Good Company, How Social Capital Makes Organizations Work, Don Cohen and Laurence Prusak, 2001

Knowledge and Social Capital: Foundation and Applications, Eric L. Lesser (Editor), Butterworth Heinemann, 2000.

Living Networks, Ross Dawson, Financial Times/ Prentice Hall, 2003

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Web Sites

• http://www.robcross.org/ Rob Cross's Web Site contains examples from The Hidden Power of Social Networks
• SOCNET mailing list. Primarily for researchers and academics, but often provides useful insights and links that are accessible to business users.
• http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/  (International Network for Social Network Analysis).
• http://www.analytictech.com/ (Stephen Borgatti’s site for UCINET and other tools)
• http://orgnet.com/ (Valdis Krebs site for Inflow software, including great tutorials on SNA)
• http://www.netform.com/ (Karen Stephenson’s site, with great articles)
• http://www.netvis.org/resources.php Summary of SNA resources, including software tools
• SPIDER (Social Psychology of Information Diffusion -- Educational Resources)

Note: My blog, Networks, Complexity, and Relatedness, includes links to blogs and commentaries on various aspects of social networks, analysis, research, and software.

 

 

Fun Sites to Look at Networks:

• http://smallworld.columbia.edu/index.html (Small World Project at Columbia)

• http://www.cs.virginia.edu/oracle/ (The Oracle of Bacon at Virginia)
• http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html (TouchGraph Google Browser)
• http://www.kartoo.com/ (Kartoo)

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