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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Friday, August 29, 2003 The quiet Yesterday morning, Charter Communications' Internet service failed across the state of Massachusetts. The web was gone, but the lights were on. So I could work, disconnected, but in a way could not.
(0) comments Swarmth I can't stop thinking about Stowe Boyd's article on swarm intelligence in July's Darwin magazine. It just opened a whole new way of thinking about networks in organizations, learning, and adaptability. It's a great primer on swarming, and the logic of "bottoms-up" decision-making. Consider:
I was just reminded again after seeing Erik van Bekkum's blog response to Judith Meskill regarding NASA and communities of practice. It's not a matter of KM practices, it's a matter of letting go of some level of control to allow the intelligence of the organization to surround a problem, chatter across all the communication channels, and listen until clarity emerges. posted by Patti | permalink (click to comment) (0) comments
I've had the pleasure lately of working with Dennis Smith, an expert in project leadership. As he has become more familiar with SNA, he has become more and more convinced that it can be a valuable tool in assessing the health of a project. He just added a note to his web site today on social network analysis. posted by Patti | permalink (click to comment)(0) comments
From a post on Ryze today, a link to the KartOO visual meta search engine. Not only does it very quickly draw a map of the connections among search results, it is also very visually appealing (at least to my taste). posted by Patti | permalink (click to comment)(0) comments
Being a Star is really a workout. Tough questions from really smart people like Denham Grey. (He oughta be a star.) I've been skating through blogs looking things up, trying to find fresh things to contribute and have come across all sorts of great blogs. I'll bet most people who are stars just answer questions off the top of their heads. I'm really a just-in-time knowledge person, never really trusting that what I learned, or said, even two months ago is still true. (0) comments
Today I begin my stint as the "Star" on the AOK (Association of Knowledgework) Star Series. This opportunity came to be through my network, from Andy Snider (a Gennova contact), who introduced me to Jenny Ambrozek, who made the connection to Jerry Ash.
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Cynthia Typaldos has started a new Yahoo! group for bits and pieces about social networks, web communities, blogs, and in general topics that I find pretty darn interesting. I'll share some of those in this blog, but for those who are interested, you can look for the webcommunities group and sign on yourself.
Latest tidbit: a link to Introverster, an anti-social network satire.
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I found Chris Corrigan's blog, Open Space: Systems develop in the direction of the questions we ask, searching for occurences of "swarm" and "open space." I didn't find what I was looking for, but did find this interesting entry about how to use social network mapping in preparation for Open Space.
The blog site includes useful references to Open Space technology. (0) comments The Chernobyl of SNA? Erik van Bekkum's blogged an article (last Tuesday) in the Detroit News about social network tracking software, with great quotes from Valdis Krebs. This article was also published in USA Today, which also published an article on Friendster. Valdis makes the very interesting point that the intense interest in the technology of mapping relationships is not being matched with the appropriate level of attention to the sociology of working with people. There is a disaster looming, when somewhere, somehow, data from social networking software is misused.
If you haven't seen, social software is also getting attention from the Wall Street Journal in an article on Monday, 4th August, "Six Degrees of Exploitation."
(0) comments Six Degrees from Stanley Milgram Many articles out now that the NYU study replicating the Milgram research has concluded.
... listen to Duncan Watts on NPR's Science Fridayh (in the archives for Friday, August 8)
...Nature Magazine provides a brief summary, indicating that the the average chain length is between five and seven (6 degrees! it's true! it's true!). But Valdis Krebs notes, in the SOCNET list, that the actual number of completed chains a mere 384, 1.6% of the 24,000 that were initiated.
...The New York Times opines in "Degrees of Separation are More Likely Than 6" ...and from Oz: "Just Six Mouse-Clicks Apart" (0) comments
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