Inquiry and learning into social networks, organizational network analysis, and the relationships among people and systems in complex organizations and networks.
| Networks, Complexity, and Relatedness Inquiry and learning into social networks, organizational network analysis, and the relationships among people and systems in complex organizations and networks. |
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Monday, April 28, 2003 TouchGraph From the Technology Practice Group at CPsquare, a link to a wonderful tool, TouchGraph, that builds a map of links to related sites in Google. Sadly, I don't appear to be related (yet). I'll have to work on my connections... posted by Patti | permalink (click to comment)(0) comments
Via Nancy White's onlinefacilitation group today comes a link to an article in Darwin Magazine by Stowe Boyd, Get Real. Stowe blogs at Timing. I met Stowe at KMWorld a few years ago, we connected on a couple of fronts, and we had a terrific brainstorming session with David Weinberger of Joho and the Cluetrain Manifesto fame. It was too much fun. In Get Real, Stowe delves into the implications of embedding presence awareness into the deep infrastructure of business -- not just people, but objects like printers, the location of parts, and documents in a review cycle. From a social network analysis perspective, imagine not only knowing what your network looks like, but also being able to know at the same time which of the people in that network are currently online and available, and where they are.
Stowe has named his new business A Working Model. Wish I'd thought of that. (0) comments
Cynthia Typaldos (previously familiar to me as the author of the 12 Principles of Civilization, current morphed into the 12 Principles of Collaboration) is currently the President and Founder of the Software Product Marketing (SPM) eGroup, a network-based organization that connects software marketing professionals. Cynthia's done a great job of describing how her company is based on the strength of weak ties (and a great introduction to the concept and science while she was at it!) on her site. See SPM and the Strength of Weak Ties. [Thanks to Mark Bonchek for tipping me to this!] posted by Patti | permalink (click to comment)(0) comments Once again, a great link from Valdis Krebs: covert knowledge networks:
Valdis' posting, by the way, can be found in the knowledgenets group on Yahoo!. This is an interest group of supporting the study of the use of knowledge networks to identify and manage communities. (0) comments I'm looking forward to KnowledgeNets 2003 in New York, just a month from now. It'll be great to connect with Larry Prusak and Rob Cross from my IKM work. I'm giving a talk on social network analysis, which once again centers on the case of the unsuspecting executives who thought that their groups were collaborating. KnowledgeNets is one of a triad of co-conferences run by InfoToday, which now owns KMWorld as well. posted by Patti | permalink (click to comment)(0) comments
Family Networks are not often mentioned in the the current social network analysis literature, but I'm finding that my own family's network has had an interesting "intervention" from the MyFamily.com website. For several years now, a second cousin (in Las Vegas) and a third cousin (in Denmark), and a pair of cousins in Wisconsin, have kept up a family web site. Discussions are lively, often going into strange tangents, and there are new photos almost daily of current events and resurrected and scanned old family photos. I know most of my cousins (my mother was the youngest of 10 children, so there are a lot of us in my generation, and the next two generations continue to grow) much better now that I ever would have through the brief chats at the annual family reunions and funerals. I know what people really like, how they use language, their musical preferences, and I've discovered a number of poets in the family.
(0) comments The "tipping point" has reach the tipping point..
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Been interesting times for network analysis. A spate of articles recently (and I've gotten some potential business interest from my own writing and web sites). What's in the air?
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