I received an email from a very weak tie yesterday. Bijoy Goswami is former Nortel employee who knew someone named Greg (whom I can’t remember with only a first name for a clue) who referred Bijoy to me. Bijoy noticed that Rob Cross gave me an acknowledgment in The Hidden Value of Social Networks, and [...]

I’m catching up on the reading pile, mostly looking at strategic directions in knowledge management technologies for a client report, and came across a couple of articles my friend David Hartzband (VP for collaboration at EMC/Documentum/eRoom). He summarizes the Software 2004 conference managed by Sand Hill associates, and one of the insights he reports from [...]

Here’s a great bit from Technology Research News passed on to me from a knowledge broker extraordinaire at one of my client sites: Messenger taps social nets describes research at the University of Michigan in the development of a tool that constructs expertise profiles for people on instant messaging buddy lists. If you and all [...]

KM Magazine arrived yesterday. Jerry Ash, who has created an awesome conversational space in the AOK network, is on the cover. Full PDF available.
Coincidentally (or not), I was Googling “social network analysis” and “Tacit” (for Tacit the company), and discovered that Jack Vinson blogged my entry on Dennis’ Smith’s article. I know Jack through AOK [...]