Hi, Has anyone developed good questions and techniques for locating the opinion leaders in a large organization? This might be precursor to an organizational...
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!)...
Hi Patti -- I've done this kind of inquiry, although for other purposes. "Make sense" is good, but I'd be inclined at least to augment it with something more...
The visionary architect Christopher Alexander's work takes it up a notch, at least in terms of page count. Major works: A Timeless Way of Building, Pattern...
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...
http://www.patternlanguage.com/leveltwo/townplanning.htm is relevant to what is being proposed as a virtual rendering of Taos New Mexico.. as a foundational...
I want to step in here with some discussion about the nature of measuring the social discourse. I designed the core part of a major measurement system...
Patti, I think you might want to parse out "opinion leader". Do you mean the "technical wizards", folks who really have a handle on the content or the "social...
OK, this is a little off topic but I saw something wonderful today that anyone interested in Collaboration, Creativity, and/or Organization Development should...
Very cool. I am sure there is an ONA angle in there somewhere. Seth _____ Andymmcdermott wrote: OK, this is a little off topic but I saw something wonderful...
Thanks for posting Stephanie. Just a note of qualification, I am sure that this material will be very basic for the ONA-PRAC members. It's an introduction to...
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...
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! ...
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...
You may find some of us in LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/) which is very similar to what openBC looks like. (I will register for openBC as well and find...
I also use LinkedIn for contacts. I had not heard of openbc before. Seth Seth Earley Earley & Associates, Inc 781-444-0287 781-820-8080 cell Next taxo...
Eric, I like your idea entering ona-prac as one of your organizations in openbc. I did the same. All ona-prac people could do this so that we are easy to find....
I did something similar for Linked In for the taxonomy CoP I am involved in. I am not sure if Linked In users are interested in replicating their contacts in...
I'm a bit worried by some statements such as "I'm not sure you would get valid answers" or "find the opinion leaders entirely through an interview process". We...
Hi ONA-prackers, Some time ago I created an Excel spreadsheet to help automate the process of collecting network survey data and feeding it into SNA software....
Dear All, We've <http://www.anecdote.com.au/archives/2006/04/3_big_problems.html> learnt that for SNA to be effective in group situations there is real value ...
Thanks for sharing this, Andrew. I agree that set-up is key. I noticed that you make a reference in step #1 to experiential sociometric "networks in action"...
Greetings! By way of a short introduction, I am new to the list, and brand new to SNA/ONA. I am currently a project manager, but I am also a recent graduate of...
Hello, I have questions on how to analyze and interpret the indicator network density. My data consists of two tables: people and relations. The relations ...