Accepted in Typepad’s Journalist Bailout Program. Being incurably nosy, I went off to look at Typepad’s “ Journalist bailout program “. Now called Typepad for Journalists. Typepad is a blogging platform, white label (hosted) service, extremely wellknown and used by all sorts of famous people and sites. Typepad Sacked journalists take to blogging? I was on Twitter’s party line for the Monday night (USA time) chats on journalism #journchat, and was a little taken aback to see the number of journalists tweeting about losing their job,

Day: Peripheral Vision: Detecting the Weak Signals That Will Make or Break Your Company Subscribe to this blogs feed « Facebook For Business: A Win Even If Its Not | Main | Intel launches a company-ranking site: CoolSW » October 07, 2007 More On Formalizing Informal Networks Jay Cross brings up some specific (and valid) cautionary points related to a recent McKinsey article on " Harnessing the Power of Informal Social Networks " that I also commented on here . disagree however that

Day: Peripheral Vision: Detecting the Weak Signals That Will Make or Break Your Company Subscribe to this blogs feed « Building a Culture of Collaboration | Main | Facebook For Business: A Win Even If Its Not » October 05, 2007 Harnessing The Power Of Informal Employee Networks Registration is required but the registration provides free access to this particular article. would offer some cautionary advice - informal networks are - well - informal. Collaborative Thinking Perceptions on collaboration and social software by Mike Gotta See how were connected Connections February 2009 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Enterprise strategists have long been aware that the “informal organization” has tremendous influence on business success or failure. Hierarchy and formal controls can inadvertently result in compliance policies, decision-making roles, and work handing rules that constrain the ability of people to effectively communicate, share information, and collaborate. Breakdowns in information sharing and collaboration and a poor sense of community within Collaborative Thinking Perceptions on collaboration and social software by Mike Gotta See how were connected Connections February 2009 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

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Loyd Warner (1898–1970): Warner’s involvement in two key research studies highlighted the need for structural analysis, graphical representation and analysis of social patterns to understand the influence of informal links, cliques and relationships. what was once referred to as a sociogram is now labeled a social graph) Social structures influence diffusion of information Certain actors can dominate communication networks (leading to concepts later referred to as “centrality”) Social networks can include sub-groups (e.g., Collaborative Thinking Perceptions on collaboration and social software by Mike Gotta See how were connected Connections February 2009 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11