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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Sunday, May 22, 2005 Enron email traffic and communication patterns My sister-in-law just called to tell me that the New York Times Week in Review today includes the article, Enron Offers and Unlikely Boost to E-Mail Surveillance. (You may need to subscribe to see this online.) It summarizes research by Dr. David Skillikorn (Queen's University in Canada), Kathleen Carley (Carnegie Mellon), and Michael Berry (U of Tennessee) on the public dataset of 1.5 million e-mails from 150 accounts at Enron. As a tool for retrospective analysis of the events leading up to the collapse of Enron, it offers both telling correlations (such as the spurt in e-mail traffice during the manipulation of California energy prices), and insight into how the use of e-mail analysis might be used, for the public good (tracking terrorists). (3) comments
Over at Gennova last Friday, we had a preview of Business Blogs: A Practical Guide, by Bill Ives and Amanda Watlington. Since I met Bill about a year ago, I've been learning a tremendous amount about the world of blogs and continue to get truly practical advice about blogging (I don't take it all, but it all makes very much sense). He's teamed with Amanda, whose expertise in search and marketing have combined into what looks like a blockbuster of content. (0) comments
I used our new tagline, "time to collaborate," in a Gennova meeting yesterday, not by way of introducing a taqline, but as a way to use it in conversation to see if it would stick. I like phrases that have several meanings. I can say, as we know, that it takes time to collaborate. Projects starting out need to allow time for team members to set out their norms for how they will work together, coordinating, sharing content, communicating, development community and context. (0) comments Connectedness reaches stardom in SNA community I was pleased to get an email last week from Barry Wellman, one of the founding researchers in social network analysis. He sent a note to his private distribution list (which subsequently when to all of the INSNA SOCNET list) commending Bruce Hoppe's blog, Connectedness. Of course, I pretty much ceded the SNA territory to Bruce a while back, as he covers just about everything. More than once I've gone to blog on a topic and discovered that Bruce covered it weeks before. I'm happy to give good work its due. (0) comments
My SNA session with Valdis Krebs and June Holley at a conference in Boston last week went very well. There was definitely a good bit of interest in the topic, especially in the work that June and Valdis have done with ACEnet. They have dozens of stories of how the creation of a network of small businesses in rural southeastern Ohio has created jobs, enhanced the small businesses, and engendered a real sense of community. (0) comments
Hugh McKellar, KMWorld Editor in Chief, weighs in on the future of knowledge management in the current issue of KMWorld. He summarizes a report by TFPL produced following its annual CKO summit last fall. (I've ordered the hardcopy report which is available for free from the TFPL web site.) (3) comments
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