Given all the interest in SNA lately, it seems like a good time to provide more education to people who’d like a bit more depth on the topic without investing in a training course. So, I’ve been working with colleagues Seth Earley, Bruce Hoppe, and Nat Welch to put together a free, 4-part teleseminar beginning [...]

My colleague Kate Ehrlich alerted our network to upcoming articles in Business Week (online and print editions) about social network analysis: The Office Chart that Really Counts. It’s a great article, with quotes from Kate and many of the folks who are working with Rob Cross at the Network Roundtable. (You may need to [...]

Searching for some good ideas on mapping industry networks, Google popped a Jay Cross page at me from 2003 on Social Network Analysis. (A great time of discovery about SNA.) He reports on a talk by Mark Granovetter that he heard at the inaugural meeting of the Institute for Social Network Analysis of the Economy [...]

Mark Bonchek, founding voice of Gennova, has been using the concept of design for emergence in his work creating and managing senior business leader networks at Tapestry Networks. Since he used the phrase in a Gennova meeting recently, I’ve been finding myself applying it in my own thinking about networks. In particular, as I [...]

A recent post by Ross Dawson gave a link to a great article by David Maister, called “Marketing is a Conversation.” Of course my ears always perk up when I hear the word conversation in a business context. Work is conversation. Life is conversation and (of course) marketing is conversation. The article, co-authored by [...]