http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/archives/001533.html schrieb / wrote: Introduction to Social Network Analysis: Over the past decade or so significant restructuring efforts have resulted in organizations with fewer hierarchical levels and more permeable functional and organizational boundaries. While hopefully promoting efficiency and flexibility, a byproduct of these restructuring efforts is that coordination and work increasingly occur through informal networks of relationships rather than through formal reporting structures or prescribed work processes: http://gates.comm.virginia.edu/rlc3w/sna.htm

http://www.elearningpost.com/archives/cat_knowledge_management.asp schrieb / wrote: ReferralWeb: This is not a new site, but well worth a visit if you are exploring social networks. The PPT slides are especially useful in understanding the theory and the need for social network analysis. ‚The ReferralWeb system lets you search and explore social networks – the networks of friends, colleagues, and co-workers – that exist on the WWW. It lets you find trusted information from trusted experts, who are likely to help because they are friends of your friends!‘ http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/kautz/referralweb/

http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/archives/001552.html schrieb / wrote: “Online communities are old-skool. The heat these days is around social networks, buddy lists & blogs — all bottom-up social tools that place the individual at the center, and grow outward from there. This is a very different design model than message boards, chat rooms and virtual worlds, which are virtual places where where like-minded people congregate.“ Comment: Actually, online communities aren’t ‚old-skool’…just some of the tools used to create communities. Community creation and fostering is the end goal, now we have more social tools available (blogs, buddy lists) than we’ve had in the past (message boards, chat rooms). http://partnerships.typepad.com/civic/2004/03/online_communit.html

http://www.elearningpost.com/archives/cat_knowledge_management.asp schrieb / wrote: The social enterprise: Nice article by Jon Udell. He talks about the changing social landscape with regards to social software. His main point: ‚If individuals agree to work transparently, they (and their employers) can know more, do more, and sell more.‘ This transparency it seems, is a necessity for social software to work. This kind of conformance to technology may seem blasphemous at first, but as Udell points out, can serve a common good. But even then, transparency must be volunteered, not conscripted (to borrow Dave Snowden’s often used phrase). http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/03/26/13FEsocial_1.html

http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/archives/001567.html schrieb / wrote: Google to find place for Orkut network in search: ‚One of the problems with search is you can’t find people,‘ said Schmidt. ‚We believe that these social networks will have a tremendous amount of information.‘ http://news.com.com/2100-1026_3-5177233.html

http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/archives/001565.html schrieb / wrote: Geek War on Terror: Very few concepts in learning and knowledge managment have more potential than networks. How we learn, share, interact…how knowledge flows in an organization, how critical values are communicated – these all function on the backbone of some type of network concept. In learning, the concept of each learner as a node, the tools (and fellow learners) to ‚transmit‘ learning as the connections, and the content itself as the substance in the pipes, makes more sense than almost any other description of the process. The study of these networks reveals surprising results…allowing people to adjust and improve processes for maximum impact. Geek War on Terror offers an example of the potential value of network study. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4486823/

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