Bruce Hoppe has arranged a session on SNA at the Boston OD Learning Group on April 21. We’re going to have a lot of fun introducing network analysis to this community, and are going to do a “live” map. My most successful SNA projects were done with partners in HR/OD parts of the [...]

Visible Path, one of the companies that is using social network methods to connect people within and outside of enterprises, has started a blog with some serious contributors: Stanley Wasserman (one of the SNA pioneers and researchers) and Stowe Boyd (from whom I’ve learned so much) included.
Stanley’s blog about Sunbelt, the annual conference of [...]

Just got news from John Maloney (of KM Cluster fame) about this tribute to Doug Engelbart.
Most people in the high-technology world know of Doug as the inventor of the mouse. Most people who’ve toiled in the field of computer-supported collaborative work know that Doug was the first person to envision frameworks for sharing desktop screens [...]

John Smith and Etienne Wenger invited me to give a talk on social networks for the CPsquare research forum; I gave the talk yesterday to a global audience of almost 20 people, I think. It is CPsquare’s 2nd birthday; it was good to be able to reflect on how my own thinking has evolved over [...]

SOCNET has a very interesting conversation going, stimulated by Valdis Krebs’ posting of a link to a Science article, Sizing up complex webs. The article suggests that all networks, from a very far distance, look the same. Valdis notes that many of the organizational networks he has studied don’t look like this at all. Others [...]