... 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...
Hi Peter If you add DPI (deep packet inspection) to the email content you can conduct some very interesing job related social and ego net analysis. We are...
Thank you very much for your suggestions. I will probably ask both symmetric (whom are exchanging information about ...) and asymmetric (whom do you go to to...
Hi all, Did you know about the plugin for Excel which can analyse your own emails? http://cid-ae935b3cde8015dd.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Excel% ...
Hello, all, Just discovered (via online-facilitation group) a Yahoo! application that lets us place ourselves on a world map... we've long thought it would be...
Around the time this group got started, a wiki was also put into place to centralize resources. As a couple of folks who were involved are not as active due...
Dear All, I am looking for some information and materials on the correlation between being main info source in the network (based on high indegree) and main...
Hi Pawel, I would think if you were getting the same nodes with high indegree and betweenness centrality then I suspect your network looks like it has a dense ...
I just want to mention a point that is related to Pawel's original question and Laurence's response that I have found to be very insightful (i.e. made...
Andy -- thanks for sharing that post regarding individual personalities in relation to network scores. Mehra had a good article on personality and network...
Hello, I'm starting an analysis on a consulting firm (about 300 people across 5 offices). The purpose is to determine the nature of connectedness within and ...
Ric, I'm not sure that the email analysing approach is any quicker as you will have to spend time cleaning data, and then when you get the results you will ...
And to get email data, you may have an I/T dept to deal with that is not responsive... email often sounds like a good quick solution, but as LLL mentions below...
Ric, VK and LLL remarks are on the mark. Email analysis serves a different purpose than a quick, one time and then also low cost ONA. For a one time analysis...
I keep hoping someone will introduce email-based communication analysis applications that seamless to install and rapidly provide initial results. Clearly...
Andy McDermott said: Ø I keep hoping someone will introduce email-based communication analysis applications that seamless to install and rapidly provide ...
Bob, You may NOT be the only gateway between these two groups... but you are the only gateway *whose data you have*! If you had everyone's data, and the...
Valdis, I didn't claim to be the *only* gateway, but I take your point nevertheless. Hopefully, although a 'newbie', I am making the point I want to make to my...
hallo all thanks for the link andy! it's true that email analysis has been messy, technically complicated and time-consuming but there's no reason why this...
Atlas for Lotus Connections is a services asset that IBM offers http://www-306.ibm.com/software/lotus/services/socialsoftware.html Atlas uses email, instant...
Hi all, I am looking for your recommendations for ONA survey tools. Is it better to use an excel sheet or a web-based survey engine like surveymonkey or ...
Hi, Faith, I'm checking with Bruce to see if he'll re-share his template. Meanwhile, look at http://www.onasurveys.com/ for survey software designed especially...