Hi Carl,
I'm using Netminer since two years too. I am not an SNA expert but a good end
user ;-)
Truly,
Diane Mercier
Ph.D. candidate in IS

Cai W Kjaer a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> I have been using Netminer from Cyram for the last couple of years, but
> still haven't found other people who use it. It has some great smarts,
> e.g. the way is graphs centrality (like a dart board). Also, the graphical
> quality of the maps are better than what I have seen elsewhere. However,
> the end user guide is less than optimal and I have spent many weekends
> trying to sort out how it works. So, I'd be keen to share lessons learned
> with other users...
>
>
> Regards
>
> Cai
>
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"GANs are distinguished from traditional NGOs and intergovernmental and business organizations because they are formed by diverse stakeholders who are interested in a common issue, and who agree to work together to achieve extraordinary results. The critical contribution that they can provide global issues is their ability to create consensual knowledge and action among diverse stakeholders." http://gan-net.net/ 

Kathleen,

There is a relevant article in the Summer 2006 issue
of "strategy+business" magazine published by Booz Allen Hamilton.
It is entitled "The Megacommunity Manifesto" and is by Mark
Gerencser, Fernando Napolitano, and Reginald Van Lee.  "A
megacommunity is a public sphere in which organizations and people
deliberately join together around a compelling issue of mutual
importance."  One such has been organized by the Forest Stewardship
Council to deal with the issue of rain forest conservation.  Other
issues around with megacommunities have organized include energy,
HIV/AIDS, and small business vitality in Harlem.

Hope this helps.

Peter S. Gadzinski
Office of eDiplomacy
gadzinskip@...

--- In ona-prac@yahoogroups.com, "pattianklam" <patti@...> wrote:
>
> Hi, Kathleen,
>
> If you haven't encountered the GAN-net work yet, I recommend
taking a
> look there. GAN = Global Action Network:
>
> "GANs are distinguished from traditional NGOs and
intergovernmental and
> business organizations because they are formed by diverse
stakeholders
> who are interested in a common issue, and who agree to work
together to
> achieve extraordinary results. The critical contribution that they
can
> provide global issues is their ability to create consensual
knowledge
> and action among diverse stakeholders." http://gan-net.net/
> <http://gan-net.net/>
> Especially the recent article by Steve Waddell,
> http://www.gan-net.net/pdfs/Multi-Stakeholder_Networks.pdf.
> <http://www.gan-net.net/pdfs/Multi-Stakeholder_Networks.pdf.>   The
> section on the process of Developing GANs includes insights into
the
> network structure.
>
>
> /patti
>
> --- In ona-prac@yahoogroups.com, "Kathleen Marvin" <kathmarv@>
wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm doing a paper on transorganizational development, focused on
the
> building and maintenance of networks in alliances, with partners,
and
> among NGOs. Can anyone refer me to any good articles/papers/urls
on this
> subject?
> >
> > Thank you
> > Kathleen Marvin
> > www.marvincoach.com
> >
>

Dear ONA practicioners,

today I discussed the ONA approach with a colleague in the office. He
asked me a pretty interesting question I was not able to answer. He
wanted to know what to do if people have to protect their information
sources. He told me a personal example where he got an important
information from an informal contact that he got officially more than
a week later. How would you deal with this situation? Just ignore? I
guess, that such a "black" network is at least as important as the
normal informal network, isn't it?

Ciao,
Steffen

http://www.steffen-mazanek.de
http://informatik-praxis.blogspot.com

it's very common for people to  seek out others to help make sense of rumors, things like corporate announcements that surprise us such as promotion or departure of key people or unexpected press announcements.

Hi, Yuval,

What you are looking to do is to extract the ego network for node A. I
don't use Pajek so I can't help you with the particulars of how to do
it in that tool. I notice that there is a Pakek user group,
http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/mailist.htm. Have you
asked your question there?

/patti

--- In ona-prac@yahoogroups.com, "yuval_millo" <yuval_millo@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have recently begun to use SNA in my research, so I'd like to
> apologise in advance, because this is probably a question of a
> complete beginner. I need to extract a sub-network that includes only
> the nodes and the arcs directly leading to a specific node (it's a
> directed network), and the arcs leading to those nodes. That is, the
> network should have only node A's immediate neighbours and their
> immediate neighbours.
> I am using Pajek, I have the book and I could not find how to do it.
> Maybe it's just that I somehow missed it in the book, but I am sure
> Pajek can do this, because it looks like it's a very basic procedure.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated,
> Yuval
>
> ________________________________________
> Dr. Yuval Millo
> Dep. of Accounting, Finance and Management
> University of Essex
> Wivehnoe Park
> United Kingdom
> http://www.essex.ac.uk/afm/staff/millo.shtm
>

Hi,

Has anyone developed good questions and techniques for locating the
opinion leaders in a large organization? This might be precursor to an
organizational network analysis; the primary goal at this point is to
do a broad-brush survey of say, 3,000 people asking them to name the
people they most rely on for understanding changes in the organization.

Has anyone done this kind of survey, and with what results? What
questions. I assume questions on the order of:

**List the names of up to five people you go to when you want to make
sense of changes in the organization.

**List the names of those you trust in the organization to be frank in
discussing organizational issues

Any other ideas?  Practical experience in administering a survey like
this and managing the results, especially thoughts about the validity
of the responses?

thanks,

patti

-----Original Message-----
From: ona-prac@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ona-prac@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of pattianklam
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 9:35 AM
To: ona-prac@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ona-prac] ONA for change management: locating opinion leaders

Hi,

Has anyone developed good questions and techniques for locating the
opinion leaders in a large organization? This might be precursor to an
organizational network analysis; the primary goal at this point is to
do a broad-brush survey of say, 3,000 people asking them to name the
people they most rely on for understanding changes in the organization.

Has anyone done this kind of survey, and with what results? What
questions. I assume questions on the order of:

**List the names of up to five people you go to when you want to make
sense of changes in the organization.

**List the names of those you trust in the organization to be frank in
discussing organizational issues

Any other ideas? Practical experience in administering a survey like
this and managing the results, especially thoughts about the validity
of the responses?

thanks,

patti

Hello Everyone, Several weeks ago Seth Earley suggested I look
at "How
Buildings Learn" by Stewart Brand - and I eventually got a second-
hand
(read cheap!) copy on Amazon. Seth was generously steering me
towards
an intersection of Social Networks and Space Planning; how our needs
for work and living spaces are shaped by the buildings we inhabit
and
how buildings, in turn, are evolved to meet changing needs. It's a
great book.

This line of reading brought me to a couple of overlapping jumping
off
points -
"Karen Stephenson's Quantum Theory of Trust" -
http://www.shambhalainstitute.org/Fieldnotes/Issue8/I8_Kleiner.pdf
"Designs for Working - Gladwell" -
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller/bpw/37-45.pdf#search='designs%
20for%20working%20gladwell'

And best of all,

Stewart Brand's Listmania list - lots of used bargains
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/DWFDVS1620RO/103-
0919017-5243861?%5Fencoding=UTF8

Happy browsing!

Wally Clausen
64 Westland Road
Weston, MA 02493
781-894-0793 (phone/fax)
781-801-8778 (cell)
wclausen@...

Wally Clausen
64 Westland Road
Weston, MA 02493
781-894-0793 (phone/fax)
781-801-8778 (cell)
wclausen@...

-----Original Message-----
From: ona-prac@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ona-prac@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of G & K Danis
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 1:03 PM
To: ona-prac@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [ona-prac] ONA for change management: locating opinion leaders

I appreciate the value of questions that probe “discussion partners.”  What about the leaders with whom we don’t have direct contact, but whose points of view carry a lot of weight in the organization…..are you also trying to identify them??  These folks may or may not be in formal positions of authority—and when they are, they may be “unattainable” for purposes of dialogue due to their social/organizational distance.

Thus, if this fits within your survey objectives, you might want to include a question like, “Name the top 5 people in your [organization/line of business/bureau/whatever limitation] who can announce a change, and you know with certainty that it will take place.”

HTH,

Karen

Karen T. Danis, CKM/CKEE

-----Original Message-----
From: ona-prac@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ona-prac@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of pattianklam
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 8:35 AM
To: ona-prac@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ona-prac] ONA for change management: locating opinion leaders

Hi,

Has anyone developed good questions and techniques for locating the
opinion leaders in a large organization? This might be precursor to an
organizational network analysis; the primary goal at this point is to
do a broad-brush survey of say, 3,000 people asking them to name the
people they most rely on for understanding changes in the organization.

Has anyone done this kind of survey, and with what results? What
questions. I assume questions on the order of:

**List the names of up to five people you go to when you want to make
sense of changes in the organization.

**List the names of those you trust in the organization to be frank in
discussing organizational issues

Any other ideas? Practical experience in administering a survey like
this and managing the results, especially thoughts about the validity
of the responses?

thanks,

patti

From: pattianklam

To: ona-prac@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 11:35 AM

Subject: [ona-prac] ONA for change management: locating opinion leaders

Hi,

Has anyone developed good questions and techniques for locating the
opinion leaders in a large organization? This might be precursor to an
organizational network analysis; the primary goal at this point is to
do a broad-brush survey of say, 3,000 people asking them to name the
people they most rely on for understanding changes in the organization.

Has anyone done this kind of survey, and with what results? What
questions. I assume questions on the order of:

**List the names of up to five people you go to when you want to make
sense of changes in the organization.

**List the names of those you trust in the organization to be frank in
discussing organizational issues

Any other ideas? Practical experience in administering a survey like
this and managing the results, especially thoughts about the validity
of the responses?

thanks,

patti

OK, this is a little off topic but I saw something wonderful today
that anyone interested in Collaboration, Creativity, and/or
Organization Development should know about...here
http://www.imaginationcubed.com/LaunchPage

No special software, no memberships, etc required!

Our fellow ona-prac member Seth Earley will be giving an interesting
Webinar on Organizational Network Analysis taking place next week
through the SharedInsights networks.

http://www.sharedinsights.com/events/webseminars/overview.aspx?
e_id=37FB08E2E3C74D51AFFB64BC9136F912&pcode=DIYXMPC
(make sure to copy all on one line)

Organizational Network Analysis - Making Hidden Knowledge Networks
Visible July 20, 2006 - 11am-12pm (EST)

After this session, attendees will:

     * Learn about new ways to map content processes
     * Understand how maps of interactions can lead to improved design
     * See an example of ONA in action in a large global organization

Stephanie

Thank you Wally, Paul, Victoria, and Karen,

It was great to have this meaty discussion. I am not going forward with
this project because of my own time constraints (gotta get this book
done!), and also because the scope (3,000 people) was beyond my
capacity. I did summarize and offer back combined insights of ONA-prac
to my requestor, which I am happy to share, below.

-----------------------

Some questions you might pose in the survey:

1. If you wanted to learn how an organizational change would affect you
personally, who would  be the five people you would contact first to
learn more?

2. You receive organizational announcements and communications from many
different people. Of the people who send these announcements, list up to
five whose messages are consistently the most credible.

3. What are the corporate communications vehicles you rely on most to
get more information about changes that affect you (multiple choice:
intranet, newsletters, etc.)?

4. (if appropriate). Who are the people you rely on most to help you
understand changes in policies and procedures?

Obviously, the questions need to be phrased in the language of the
target group.

Collecting demographics is the most important. You'll want to know the
geography (region, office location, whatever), job function, position in
hierarchy, and so on if you are going to end up with a representative
advisory/teaching group or council. Because it's a merged organization,
you'll want to know the heritage (legacy company) each person is from.

Context.  When you ask people to fill out a survey, they would need to
know what the purpose is and what will be done with the results. If you
did the survey as part of a broader survey, it would be easier, but in
any event, people want to know the reason that a question is being
asked. In a time of great organizational uncertainty, I'm not sure you
would get valid answers. If people know that you are asking for the
names of people who can most influence them to accept change, then it
will be perceived as manipulative.

Interviews. I think the most important thing to do here is to have some
interviews with people in this target group and feel them out for how
they'd respond to questions like those above if they received them in an
interview. Some of the people I talked with suggested that you find the
opinion leaders entirely through an interview process, if there is a way
to segment the organization into meaningful clusters to identify people
to interview. Some names could also be generated by doing some "mining"
of corporate web sites, notes groups, newsletters, and so on, to
identify potential opinion leaders. Boston Consulting Group works with
opinion leaders quite a bit (though not in this particular context).
What they do is to get the "top" opinion leader from each of a set of
groups, take this group and ask "who's missing?" This snowball approach
could also yield good results.

-----Original Message-----
From: ona-prac@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ona-prac@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Bruce Hoppe
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 2:19 PM
To: ona-prac@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ona-prac] RE: Whiteboard and other wacky Internet collaboration

Thanks, Andy. That is fun!

Here is a list of some similar collaborative drawing tools: http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/36589

And the metafilter site itself may be of interest to folks as a massively successful case study in collaborative blogging.

The interesting thing about this sort of collaborative drawing is that, when researchers have looked at a lot of these, most of the drawings are pretty much determined by the first two lines drawn. So it’s a tricky kind of “collaboration.”

While we’re on the thread of wacky collaborative endeavors spawned by the Internet, Martin Demaine (MIT EE/CS Chief Artist in Residence(!)) is leading a project to write a paper with the most-ever number of co-authors. What this paper will be about, Marty did not tell me, nor do I suspect he cares—a luxury he has but the rest of us generally do not.

 -B

Bruce Hoppe, PhD

Connective Associates LLC

http://connectedness.blogspot.com

Bruce@...

---

From: ona-prac@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ona-prac@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of andymmcdermott
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 4:30 PM
To: ona-prac@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ona-prac] Whiteboard

OK, this is a little off topic but I saw something wonderful today
that anyone interested in Collaboration, Creativity, and/or
Organization Development should know about...here
http://www.imaginationcubed.com/LaunchPage

No special software, no memberships, etc required!

Hi I thought this would be interesting to ONA-Prac as well...

Join us for this month's Taxonomy Community of Practice Call on social
tagging and folksonomies!

Also, we invite you to visit Seth Earley's new blog: Not Otherwise
Categorized (www.sethearley.wordpress.com)

Social Tagging and Folksonomies
Date and time: Wednesday July 26th, 2006 at 2:00 PM EDT.
Format: Teleconference
Cost: $50 per attendee.
Register for the session
https://www.2checkout.com/2co/buyer/purchase?sid=314750&quantity=1&product_id=30

You will receive dial-in instructions and slides the day before the call.
Please register by July 25th to ensure that you receive the
instructions in time.

Description
Does "social tagging" and "folksonomy" obviate the need for a formal
taxonomy?
We don't think so, but they do have value in allowing emerging trends
to be recognized, as a source of candidate terms, and as a way to have
specific communities self aggregate.

We'll hear from several practitioners and case studies on social
tagging and show you what is possible and what is practical.

This session will present:

* Issues in social tagging and folksonomies
* The benefits of social tagging in an enterprise setting
* Advanced uses of social tagging
* The Onomi social bookmarking project at Mitre

Join us July 26th, 2:00PM EDT to learn more!

Presenters will include:

Seth Earley is the founder of Earley & Associates Inc., a consulting
firm specializing in knowledge, content and document management
systems with a focus on taxonomy development and workflow design.

Dr. Bill Ives is an independent consultant and writer who has worked
with Fortune 100 companies in knowledge management, portals, and
learning for over 20 years.

Rashmi Sinha is the founding principal of Uzanto (www.uzanto.com). At
Uzanto, Rashmi focuses on Customer Research and Social Technologies
such as Recommender Systems & Tagging.

Jim Smallwood is Lead Information Systems Engineer at MITRE Corp
(www.mitre.org)  in Bedford, MA. where he's responsible for managing
corporate intranet content.

For more on the presenters, visit www.earley.com/events.htm

Stephanie Lemieux

Hello ona people,

is there a reason why I cannot find most of you at
openbc (www.openbc.com)?
It is a nice place to make use of the contacts of
your contacts and would be especially interesting
for our little community. What do you think?


Best regards,

Steffen Mazanek

https://www.openbc.com/hp/Steffen_Mazanek/
http://www.steffen-mazanek.de

Hello ona people,

is there a reason why I cannot find most of you at
openbc (www.openbc.com)?
It is a nice place to make use of the contacts of
your contacts and would be especially interesting
for our little community. What do you think?

Best regards,

Steffen Mazanek

https://www.openbc.com/hp/Steffen_Mazanek/
http://www.steffen-mazanek.de