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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| This blog is MOVING: new site is almost ready: change your readers, now: http://www.pattianklam.com/blog Thursday, June 26, 2003 Face to Face I finally got to meet Etienne Wenger in person, with an assist from my network. Etienne is, of course, one of the seminal thinkers about communities of practice who has brought tremendous insight into the ways that learning occurs in communities. He was in Boston for a conference. One of my local KM partners, Nat Welch, was attending also. Given a break between afternoon and evening activities, Nat was kind enough to drive Etienne out from Cambridge to Waltham, where I met them for a lively 1-hour, real-time, in person talk! What a difference a face makes.
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A new Ryze friend, Flemming Madsen, just posted a reference to an article in Dave Pollard's blog on Social Networks, Social Software, and the Future of Knowledge Management (with a followup on business weblogs). Good thinking, and a great illustration of what you truly want as results from a search engine... the linkages among people, content, and organizations.
The article provides some good context on knowledge management (though a bit cynical), with interesting comments about what more is needed in social software to make network enablement the "new knowledge management" (my term). Pollard also asks good questions about the role of network enablement software, including the "metrics and monetization" bugaboo. For individuals inside corporations, the question is how time spent networking can be measured and valued. For individuals outside of corporations -- independents -- the question is how time spent in networks helps to pay the phone bill.
Not a lot happening from LinkedIn, though I did invite quite a few people to see what would shake out. I also looked (quickly) at Friendster, which seems to be built on a similar concept, but that is designed to help people get dates or find friends, whereas LinkedIn focuses on business relationships. (0) comments
Back from a week at Virginia Beach, Sandbridge to be precise. Several notes about LinkedIn, with references to the article in Business 2.0. So I went back to the site and invited a bunch of people. If you are already signed up, link to me! posted by Patti | permalink (click to comment)(0) comments
THE AUGMENTED SOCIAL NETWORK: BUILDING IDENTITY AND TRUST INTO THE NEXT-GENERATION INTERNET is a very interesting white paper on the requirements for standards and protocols to support network-based organizations and the linkages among them. It is being presented at the PlaNetwork Conference which begins this weekend in San Francisco. Cynthia Typaldos has posted information about this conference in several lists. I downloaded the paper a while ago and found it good reading. It supports my own inquiry on the infrastructure needs for emergent networks. Persistence of knowledge content has been an ongoing part of my inquiry into tools for networks. The ASN (Augmented Social Network) calls for standards to support: The paper is available in abstract or as the complete whitepaper (PDF format).
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