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Monday, February 15, 2010
I recently tweeted an observation of David Weinberger' s on how our language has shifted: Over the past decade, we’ve gone from talking about social circles to social networks. A circle draws a line around us. Networks draw lines among
 
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Chris Brogan writes about his strategy for deepening his personal networks . He starts off his list of tips with this one: "Devote two hours a week to this effort. If, out of the 60 hours an average person works, you can’t find two for this, reconsider how you’re running your day. This is not the only new year's resolution I've seen along this line.
 
Thursday, December 31, 2009
A few months ago, I posted a series of blogs on theAppGap on what I called the "three KMs:" Big KM Little KM Personal KM (I also followed these with one of my latest themes, Personal Net Work .) These 3KM blogs were picked up on by the folks over at InMagic , who were kind enough to asked me to do a podcast with them. You can listen to it now: " Today's collaboration imperative ." If you do have the time to listen, I would be happy to hear your comments.
 

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Value Network Analysis (VNA) is one of the sense-making tools that I emphasize in my book, Net Work . I have had the privilege of working with and learning from its inventor, Verna Allee , and have internalized the mapping of value exchanges into my consulting practice. Whether shared or created with the client or not, it's how I make sense of how a network of actors (inside an organization, or across multiple organizations) gets work done.
Via Beth Kanter , I am reading today an essay on network leadership by Bill Traynor , executive director of Lawrence Community Works . I had the pleasure of meeting Bill last fall at a regional nonprofit event, and was literally blown away by his success building a network of stakeholders and small groups in Lawrence, MA focusing on community development and civic engagement.
I was recently invited to participate in a published "panel" on the topic of heterarchies for the People and Strategy Journal , a quarterly publication of the Human Resource Planning Society. The lead article "An Argument for Heterarchy: creating more effective organizational structures" was written by Karen Stephenson, who has a gift for describing network concepts, in this case, the emergence of what she describes as a new network form, the heterarchy.
A re-posting on the Value Networks blog of a list of research centers in social network analysis reminded me to take a look at what's happening at the University of Kentucky's International Research Center on Social Networks in Business which nabbed Steve Borgatti away from Boston a year and a half ago. I
You know you've been touched by a powerful idea or theory when it keeps coming back to mind, and begging you to apply its perspective to other ideas you encounter or read about. I've been touched by the Strauss and Howe theory of generations. Deb Gilburg, of the Gilburg Leadership Institute introduced the idea (first described in the 1991 book Generations ) to a recent meeting of our local idea network Gennova.

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Thursday, March 18, 2010
A great, smart video from the UK (h/t Gerard VanderLeun )...watch watch the whole thing.
 
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Forwarded to me by my colleague Ray Gordezky, with whom I am part of a team looking convening people around polar bears in Northern Labrador and Quebec. The Moon Speaks of Polar Bears Hailey Leithauser Some things are better defined
 
Thursday, March 18, 2010
It isn’t too late for entrepreneurs to become early adopters of social media . Use of the social web is still trying to find its way into mainstream business culture. I first learned about Web 2.0
 

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Managing staff who participate in social networks. This list also includes policies called; Staff blogging policies, enterprise social network guidelines, Employee Blogging Policies, Staff engagement in online communities, and so on. I’ve done a few press (radio, print) interviews this week re: Telstra so I thought I should have another look at how Enterprise, Government, Corporates, Not for Profits  are handling the fact that their staff are members of social networks too. 
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