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Updated Leaders of the Revolution One leading indicator of the enormous importance of networks and value network analysis to knowledge, people, business, government, intelligence, the environment, and civil society is the explosion of network research centers at major universities. Below is an updated list of important university research centers, programs and initiatives. Centers for Network Research Australian National [link] Carnegie Mellon [link] Central European [link]

While exploring this theme as part of the content of my research was somewhat expected, I did not realise how much reflecting on practices of others and my blogging experiences in that respect would challenge my research methodology-wise. Blogging research not only turned into participatory research and involving others as co-researchers . In my dissertation I describe uses of weblogs as a sense-making instrument that provides a way to deal with unexpected or complex ideas by supporting articulation and organising ideas at a personal level combined with distributed collaborative thinking in “ sense-making networks “.

Wave 4 of UM’s research into the facts behind the hype of social media reveals that social networks are becoming the dominant platform for content creation and content sharing. Although the explosive growth of social media has attracted a lot of media coverage and hype only ‘Power to the People’—which began in 2006 and now has four waves of comparable data—has been able to track actual usage and consumer uptake,” says Glen Parker, Research Director at UM EMEA. UM’s latest “Power to the People” survey - the largest global analysis of social media usage to date - has revealed dramatic changes in the way that consumers are using the internet to create and share their thoughts,pictures and videos.

The Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) is an online community of open study groups for short university-level courses. Stian Håklev is a Toronto-based activist for open access to research and open education , and one of the founders of P2PU. There is a huge amount of Open Educational Resources “out there”, with MIT OCW and the other OCWs, Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative, Open University UK, WikiEducator, Wikiversity Article from Chris Watkins : Think of it as online book clubs for open educational resources.

The reality is that there is an ever expanding universe of online touchpoints that an organization’s community members are participating in off-domain. An ecosystem research exercise should be conducting as part of a strategy development (or strategy course correction) exercise in order to discover where the off domain centers or activity are, and who the most vocal and active participants are. It’s also important to research This post is part of an ongoing series about developing an online community strategy . As a reminder, all posts are being tagged #ocb2b .

Excerpt from a debate on our p2p-research list, about the future of universities in a p2p world. In this excerpt, Ryan Lanham responded to Nottingham Trent University network theory sociologist Andreas Wittel. Ryan Lanham: “I think your answer was right on the money with regard to what I was getting at…universities are unlikely to succeed by being more “business-like” because that is not their mission. Efficiency is a reasonable objective, but is it achieved by being more business-like? I doubt it…unless your mission is to do the things

Mendeley is a new online tool to share, aggregate, organize and discover research papers. It allows researchers to search for papers but also to connect with other researchers, invite them to join a group and then share ideas and documents. In an article in the Guardian there is a description of thin new facility, which is growing fast and attracting more and more universities, research groups and libraries. Via Alessandro Delfanti : It has been compared to Last.fm, the popular website to share music, or to iTunes, since it is an application you can

Today, we formally announced our findings from the field research project on social networking conducted August-November 2008. SALT LAKE CITY, UT - Burton Group , a research and consulting firm focused on in-depth analysis of enterprise information technologies, has conducted a detailed field study analyzing social networking within the enterprise. Almost universally, organizations participating in the study felt they were behind their competitors The press release is below. Also, we are making the initial project summary document available as a free download (the link

Handbook of Research on Socio-Technical Design and Social Networking Systems ISBN: 978-1-60566-264-0; 1,034 pp; March 2009 Edited by: Brian Whitworth, Massey University, New Zealand and Aldo de Moor, CommunitySense, The Netherlands The Handbook of Research on Socio-Technical Design and Social Networking Systems provides a state-of-the-art summary of knowledge in this evolving, multi-disciplinary field distinctive in its variety of international Published under the imprint Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference) [link] reference/details.asp?ID=3