May 2005 archives

May 22, 2005 by Patti

Enron email traffic and communication patterns

My sister-in-law just called to tell me that the New York Times Week in Review today includes the article, Enron Offers and Unlikely Boost to E-Mail Surveillance. (You may need to subscribe to see this online.) It summarizes research by Dr. David Skillikorn (Queen’s University in Canada), Kathleen Carley (Carnegie Mellon), and Michael Berry (U [...]

May 18, 2005 by Patti

Business Blogs: A Practical Guide is out

Over at Gennova last Friday, we had a preview of Business Blogs: A Practical Guide, by Bill Ives and Amanda Watlington. Since I met Bill about a year ago, I’ve been learning a tremendous amount about the world of blogs and continue to get truly practical advice about blogging (I don’t take it all, but [...]

May 14, 2005 by Patti

Time to Collaborate: A tag line for the 21st century

I used our new tagline, “time to collaborate,” in a Gennova meeting yesterday, not by way of introducing a taqline, but as a way to use it in conversation to see if it would stick. I like phrases that have several meanings. I can say, as we know, that it takes time to collaborate. Projects [...]

May 14, 2005 by Patti

Connectedness reaches stardom in SNA community

I was pleased to get an email last week from Barry Wellman, one of the founding researchers in social network analysis. He sent a note to his private distribution list (which subsequently when to all of the INSNA SOCNET list) commending Bruce Hoppe’s blog, Connectedness. Barry said, Two consulting friends have pointed me to this [...]

May 9, 2005 by Patti

Building networks for the common good

My SNA session with Valdis Krebs and June Holley at a conference in Boston last week went very well. There was definitely a good bit of interest in the topic, especially in the work that June and Valdis have done with ACEnet. They have dozens of stories of how the creation of a network of [...]