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 Saturday, July 26, 2003 Tipping Tipping, in the New York Times, bemoans the overuse of the term "tipping point," Valdis Krebs alerts SOCNET, with a question, "can betweenness be next?". Note I did blog this use of Tipping Point in conjunction with the war in April.
(0) comments Theodore Zeldin at the Tate Saturday morning's email brought two links to Theodore Zeldin. One, a quote sent around by one of our local knowledge cafe founders:
Theodore Zeldin's talk was a response to a photography exhibit at the Tate Modern. The first 20 minutes of this talk are all about relatedness and the future of work:
My blog, and its title, derive from a number of sources, two of which are fundamental assertions that resonated strongly with me when I first heard them, over 10 years ago:
Timing is everything. (0) comments
Seven Survival Tips for Knowledge Managers is a good list of tips for thinking about knowledge management. (Thanks to Denham Grey, once again for a good link from CPsquare.) The gist is that it is not possible to "bottle and transfer" knowledge from one person to another: the world is just too complex, people move around too much, and most of what we know is based on the learnings we acquire from all the places we've moved around to.
What companies can do, then, is to hire specific expertise, and within the company, focus on the levers of
I always like seeing the old friends people, process, product morphed into a new form. This isomorphic principle is really at the heart of all models. Always look. (0) comments connected selves Danah Boyd has taken on (publically, in SOCNET) the task of collecting information about digital social networks (Friendster and its ilk), in connected selves. Therein many great links and tidbits about how people use these internet-assisted linkages.
Now, I'm starting on the path of thinking about the differences between transactional networks and learning networks. It may have been a conversation with Bill Snyder (researcher into social networks and social capital and really generous thinker) that I had last week, or maybe some other recent connection who used the distinction... (0) comments
Instant messaging with a CPsquare buddy, Noel Dickover (President of Communibuild Technologies, Inc.), we reviewed his recent posting to the CPsquare community about our decision to use Webcrossing for discussions in the coordinator's practice group in CPsquare (temporarily abandoning Simplify). It's worth it, I wanted to say, to get people "into action" in the community but there was more of a sense to it, of collaboration, I thought, so I wrote "collabor-action."
Now, there's insight and at least enough thoughts for a whole article. Collaboration makes different kinds of action possible, and meaningful, and collabor-action (collaboraction?) brings to mind a structure of arms linked, moving ahead.
(Naturally, we Googled the term. Found lots of creative, artsy stuff and photos of a party in Chicago, but nothing related to communities of practice and working in networks.) (0) comments
One of my first sponsors for social network analysis work, Geoff Lloyd, who is still at Nortel in the UK, introduced me yesterday to Jason Macleod, whose web site, The Agile Tribe is a shockwave treat of bouncing network nodes. The demo shows how a person builds an individual knowledge profile, and from there the various types of networks that can be drawn. The application is designed to support organizational performance. Each person creates their own ego network, including qualitative comments about the effectiveness of the individual relationships. It's definitely worth a visit. posted by Patti | permalink (click to comment)(0) comments
Only two connections made through LinkedIn (that I know of). Meanwhile, others have mentioned similar sites. I put a note in my job jar to come up with a list of sites, and voila, Cynthia Typaldos blogged it yesterday! All presumably are trying to figure out how to monetize the service of connecting people in some way, but I think that there value lies currently in trying to find ways to get maps of one's network. At least Ryze these days tells you how you are linked to a person, and through whom.
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Just read about the new Google toolbar in Newsweek, so tried it out: Google Toolbar 2.0 BETA Features includes a "blog this" button! I clicked the button, and it did exactly what I needed it to do. Brought up the blogger interface, knew my blog! knew who I was! How did it do that? posted by Patti | permalink (click to comment)(0) comments
Gennova colleague Jan Twombly just wrote a piece about the Gennova constitution for the Rhythm of Business newsletter.
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