February 2005 archives

February 22, 2005 by Patti

Boston OD Learning Group (Shameless self-promotion)

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 organization — [...]

February 22, 2005 by Patti

Visible Path Blog from Sunbelt

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 [...]

February 8, 2005 by Patti

Doug Englebart turned 80

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 [...]

February 5, 2005 by Patti

Net Work at CPsquare

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 [...]

February 4, 2005 by Patti

All networks are not the same

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 [...]