| 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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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 Networks and Governance Governance is a word with many fine distinctions. Most definitions use terms like power, authority, decision-rights, policy, management, control. Governance is applied to political entities, corporate institutions, increasingly, IT. (0) comments
Community 2.0 is right around the corner. I'm going to preview my keynote talk there this Thursday afternoon at 3:00pm. You can register for this Free Webinar and afterwards, send me feedback! posted by Patti | permalink (click to comment)(0) comments
Since last week, I've met up with Jack Vinson (who has taken a job in the Boston area and is in the process of moving his family here) from my "greater KM network;" got first time face-to-face connections with John Smith, Bronwyn Stuckey, and Beth Kanter from my CPsquare network; reconnected with colleagues from the UVA Network Roundtable I've co-authored articles with (Zeke Wolfberg at the DIA and Vic Gulas of MWH Global); got to spend an hour with the elusive Bruce Hoppe; and had a wonderful morning introducing a small local OD network introduced to me by Nancy Settle-Murphy about Web 2.0. I missed, however, a great meeting of the Boston KM forum (one of my principal local networks) on Web2.0 because I was working under a deadline for an article for a print magazine (how 20th century) on organizational network analysis. Today (also 20th century) I got a copy of the new book, Knowledge Management in Practice, that includes a chapter co-authored by my partner Joe Hutchinson and myself, but that also includes chapters by Boston KM Forum colleagues Larry Chait and Lynda Moulton and by two folks I saw last fall at a Conference Board of Canada KM event, Dave Pollard and Albert Simard. (1) comments
I've been doing social network analysis since 2001. With the upswing over the past few years of the social networking sites the language has got a bit blurry. When I do my NetWork workshops, I now need to help people distinguish the basics of "social networks" as distinct from the phenomenon of linking. (0) comments
The power of blogs to connect has resonated with me today as I looked at my Bloglines feed and found a number of touching remembrances of Dr. Martin Luther King, on this anniversary of his death: (0) comments
I've been pondering a recent McAfee post, "Explaining my Fondness for Explicit Content" and have blogged on this in TheAppGap, but I was so tickled by his references to definitions by Kim Rachmeler on the topic of "collective intelligence: (4) comments
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