Valdis Krebs, June Holley, and Jack Ricchiuto have begun to blog their work in economic community development at Network Weaving. Early posts from January 2006 tell how they met and began working together, joined by common interests in networks and using network concepts and mapping practices to create and sustain economic communities.
The ACEnet story, which [...]

One of our SNA JumpStart telecalls spotlighted Kate Ehrlich (IBM) and Don Ronchi, formerly of Raytheon and now with the University of Chicago. Working with Ron Burt, Don developed and managed a Business Leadership Program (BLP) at Raytheon. The goal was to introduce senior managers to the network theory of social capital, its implications in [...]

The Yahoo! group, ONA-prac, that we launched for the JumpStart Series (one session left!) has 98 members. We are beginning this as a classic community of practice, with (for now) a core team of four members and a commitment to being responsive to postings, keeping the conversation going, and collecting learnings as we go. [...]