March 2006 archives

March 20, 2006 by Patti

Scenarios as sense-making

Art Hutchinson (no relation other than we are friends)wrote a superb blog on his attendance at a recent IIS (International Intelligence Summit) in Crystal City, Virginia. I first met Art about 8 or so years ago when he was at Northeast Consulting Resources Inc, a dynamic strategy consulting firm that invented a scenario-based method call [...]

March 17, 2006 by Patti

Another node in the network of networks interested in social networks

The SNA JumpStart series began yesterday very positively. We had almost 150 people on the call, and despite a phone glitch that kept my guest speaker from getting on the phone, all went well. I await the survey results. We’ve also had a rash of sign-ups for our Yahoo! group community, ona-prac. It’s a bit [...]

March 9, 2006 by Patti

More Sense-Making from SNA

Rob Cross’s recent post in Centrality is a description of the rich context that an SNA/ONA can reveal. Many people think that the creation of maps is the objective of an ONA. The objective is actually to understand the nature of the relationships in the group being examine. That’s why demographic information is so important. [...]

March 8, 2006 by Patti

SNA/ONA Jumpstart Starts Next Week

Just a friendly reminder that our JumpStart starts jumping next week. If you haven’t already signed up, there’s still time to register for any of the four sessions. One of my colleagues in this webinar is Bruce Hoppe, who has provided a lovely introduction in his blog post of February 28th. The concepts of bridging [...]

March 1, 2006 by Patti

Keeping connections

My Google home page threw up the following quotation from Virginia Woolf one day this week: “I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.” It makes me think hard about the times that I’ve been unable to respond quickly enough to an email message, or that I’ve not [...]