September 2003 archives

September 30, 2003 by Patti

Judith Meskill’s comment on the reading list prompted me to go to her site, where I discovered that she has made a direct connection with Valdis Krebs, which I apparently had a hand in. Her note also reminded me to go read Valdis’ latest article in HR.com, “What’s your Google number?”. I like to think [...]

September 30, 2003 by Patti

Multiples of One Conference | November 7-8, 2003

The 2nd annual Multiples of One Conference will be in Cambridge, MA, USA November 9/10. I didn’t attend the first, but then I didn’t know Kate Ehrlich then. “This year we ask the question: In a networked society what is the role of the individual? How can an individual-whether alone or with others-make meaningful contributions [...]

September 28, 2003 by Patti

Cynefin

I just got back from an intense week in New York City, certifying as a Cynefin consultant. Very diverse set of people, with US-based consultants definitely in the minority. It is still “emerging” as a methodology, but many of the components of the methodology have become tacit and transferable. On Thursday, David Snowden returned from [...]

September 14, 2003 by Patti

It’s about relationships

I attended a talk by Dr. Daniel Blass at the Harvard Business School on Friday. A purely academic talk, one of those in which I find that things that I have taken for granted as generally true have not yet been proven. Colleagues from the Gennova Group got together to ‘debrief’ afterward and that was [...]

September 13, 2003 by Patti

Update to my SNA Reading List

It’s been a while since I looked at the my reading list on social networks, so I’ve done that today. I especially wanted to mention it because somehow it took me a while to find my way to Networks in the Knowledge Economy, a great collection of papers on social network theory and research. It’s [...]