February 2008 archives

February 28, 2008 by Patti

From The Edge: Social Networks are Like the Eye

Via my friend Art Hutchinson this morning, I followed a link to an article in The Edge, a conversation with Nicholas Christakis. Dr. Christakis, with his colleague James Fowler, were the authors of the research paper published last year on the spread of obesity in networks in the New England Journal of Medicine. The research […]

February 23, 2008 by Patti

Connections Rule

I have blogged before (but not for quite some time) about the Digital Equipment/Stone Center project (the Stone Center for is now a part of Wellesley College’s Centers for Women)which includes the Jean Baker-Miller Training Institute. It was from the experience of working (in 1991) with a remarkable set of women that I first understood […]

February 8, 2008 by Patti

Ketchum Partners is catching the SNA wave with Rob Cross

An interesting press release: “Ketchum Partners With Leading Social Network Expert Rob Cross to Enhance Social Network Analysis and Activation for Clients.” The headline mostly says it all. Ketchum is a PR firm, Rob Cross the master of bringing social/organizational network analysis initially to a host of KM practitioners (moi aussi) and since, via the […]

February 2, 2008 by Patti

News with Context: Silobreaker Search

I’m afraid I won’t get much work done today. In a post in the mailing list for KMG Philadelphia, a member posted a quick reference to Silobreaker, a news aggregator and search engine that generates context. Right on the home page you can see what’s possible when a news from many sources is digested, analyzed […]