A colleague, Dennis Smith (we’ve worked on one project together and are starting a second), has published an article, “Network links go well beyond straight lines.” Dennis and I met about two years ago, and about a year ago we had the big “aha” about how SNA can provide a useful diagnosis of the current context [...]

Just heard that Valdis Krebs is doing two 1-day seminars on enterprise SNA with the KM Cluster. The seminar price includes the student version of InFlow (you can map up to 75 nodes with this version) and  a copy of Rob Cross’s book, The Hidden Power of Social Networks. A pretty darn good deal. The dates [...]

I’ve been reading a galley ofDave DeLong’s book, Lost Knowledge. I’m reviewing it for Knowledge Management Magazine. Dave’s research and the countless interviews he conducted have resulted in a thorough and engaging work. I’ll post a link to the review when it’s completed.

I have been referred to Peter Gloor time after time, and have looked at various web sitees that describe the work he is doing at MIT in analyzing email to show interactions over time. I was disappointed when I first looked, several months ago, to find that the tool (which is downloadable) works only on Eudora [...]

I am prepping and working on two projects (in addition to client work). One is the KM Cluster in Boston in October (see link on the right of this pae). The KM Cluster’s conversation will be about the value of networks — intrinsic value, business value, the return on investing on the difficult work of [...]