Hi, all, I am working on an article for "Inside Knowledge Magazine about SNA/ONA and knowledge management. I think of it as an update on my original 2002...
Patti One topic I would love to see covered is on the issue of ethics and privacy in using ONA. A few questions on it: - to what extent is it legitimate to...
Serge, thanks for adding this question to the inquiry. I'd like to hear from others as well -- have the ethical issues been barriers to successfully doing ONA...
I cover much of that in training/mentoring sessions... the answers to Sergio's queries are not quick and nor simple, and often need to be addressed in a...
Hi Patti, (Please apologize my english) I combined with other visualization techniques like Mind Mapping SNA/ONA approach; this since 1993 in both KM research...
I can’t say its ever been a show stopper once I’ve got started on a job, but I can imagine it has stopped a few getting started in the first place. I’d ...
Hello, Diane, this is very useful -- exactly the kind of information I'm looking for. I'm sure this whole group would be interested in your work, and I...
hallo everyone as i mentioned in january, we've just taken the wraps off metascope, a new tool for visualising and analysing networks of up to 10,000 nodes ...
Dear all After being a lurker for a while I decided to come back to a mailing list that I always find very interesting for my mind and professional life. I...
Hi Cai Usually a wicked problems arise when in a strategy planning process there are signs of confusion, discord and lack of progress. You could say that this...
Hello all, I'm posting as a new member of the ONA group. I'm mainly a sociology/survey research guy by practice, but I studied SNA briefly and am very...
[Apologize cross posting] Hi, Someone have comments about SONAR Suite and Metascope from Trampoline Systems (UK)? http://www.trampolinesystems.com/ Other...
Hi, all, Bruce Hoppe and Claire Reinelt have just published an article, Social Network Analysis and the Evaluation of Leadership networks, on Bruce's site, ...
There was an interesting conversation on the actkm list last week about "gaming an SNA." I thought it would be of interest to this group (those who do not...
Thanks for this Patti. As I was reading through it, I started to wonder how the practice of social network analysis sets into motion the forces that change...
Interesting comment Ed. I must say that at the end of doing an ONA exercise and then meeting some of the participants later, I felt a little like I was meeting...
Laurie, I think thisis an interesting point. How many organisations explicitly teach network competencies to their new joiners? And whilst getting a new joiner...
I think astute networkers informally do this anyway, they just don't map it. They would be asking people "whos who in the zoo". I agree that a good practice...
Thought that this as an interesting read. Does anyone have any other info on BSN? Best Buy social networking site a model for big firms Monday, May 05, 2008 ...
... Why does everybody assume the goal of gaming an SNA audit has to be to increase their apparent centrality? What if an individual wants to -decrease- it?...
Tim, The original question I posted was about the influence one person could have on the results. There was no assumption as to the goal they were trying to...
Dear friends, a large companies is about to analyse its information flows in order to identify the informal information brokers. The company include some 400...
Giancarlo, You CAN do a roster survey of 400... divide them up by department/ location and then alphabetically within the dept. We have done this and it works...
Valdis, Giancarlo, I know I probably butt in far to early being a freshman on this group How about using the companies computer mediated communication (cmc)...
Yeah, proxies are fine if they help answer your question. But often management wants to know specific things and therefore ask specific questions. Proxies...
There are email tools which can help answer at least some of Valdis' questions. They aren't so automated yet that you can just press one magic button and get...