April 2004 archives

April 27, 2004 by Patti

Great People, Great Books

*THE* book on social network analysis in organizations is finally available from Amazon.com. I just received notice yesterday that my advance order had shipped! The Hidden Power of Social Networks, by Rob Cross and Andrew Parker, is a comprehensive view of the methodology of mapping networks, including the types of organizational diagnoses, interventions, and analyses. [...]

April 20, 2004 by Patti

elearningpost

I’ve added elearningpost to my blogroll. It’s like a brokered newsfeed on a number of topics I like to keep up with (Corporate Learning, Community Building, Knowledge Management are three of the mentioned themes.) Maish Nichani posts all sorts of useful stuff, like John Seeley Brown’s web site. (A bit too much shameless promotion. I [...]

April 20, 2004 by Patti

The mush

Part of the reason I haven’t blogged for a while (and I do hope that readers will forgive the spate of catching up) is that “everything is all smashing together.” At a Gennova meeting last month, I heard (not since verified) that MIT is trying to restructure its departments and areas of study. It is [...]

April 20, 2004 by Patti

Social Capital and Leadership Capital

Hidden Assets - Total Leadership - CIO Magazine Apr 15,2003 is a good knowledge nugget. I clipped this one because I’ve been running into so many people lately who are talking about intangible value. (Social capital has taken its place along with intellectual capital, structural capital, and customer capital in the foundation first laid by [...]

April 20, 2004 by Patti

Reading: Quantity vs. Quality, or why everyone really shouldn’t be your friend

LinkedIn and friends continue to be a dazzling mystery to me. They are getting a lot of press and disparagement, and (as we know), a lot remains to be done to create software standards for this sort of thing, but gosh, norms are evolving and people are starting to treat this very seriously. Scott Allen’s [...]