... 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?...
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Cory Banks
twostoreycory
Jun 13, 2008 12:34 pm
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...
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Jan-Kees Buenen
jkbuenen
Jun 19, 2008 10:52 pm
Thanks to Patti for allowing me to enter your group. With my early stage company we are offering ONA and Dynamic NA to the fingertips of people and...
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Giancarlo Oriani
giancarlo.or...
Jun 25, 2008 5:04 pm
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...
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Valdis Krebs
orgnet9
Jun 25, 2008 10:12 pm
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...
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jkbuenen
Jun 25, 2008 10:40 pm
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)...
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Valdis Krebs
orgnet9
Jun 25, 2008 11:25 pm
Yeah, proxies are fine if they help answer your question. But often management wants to know specific things and therefore ask specific questions. Proxies...
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Peter Biddle
peternbiddle
Jun 26, 2008 9:57 am
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...
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Michael Brown
skillsnetman
Jun 26, 2008 12:32 pm
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...
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Giancarlo Oriani
giancarlo.or...
Jun 28, 2008 6:34 am
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...
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caikjaer
Jun 28, 2008 2:10 pm
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% ...
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pattianklam
Jul 23, 2008 1:54 pm
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...
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Seth Earley
seth_earley
Jul 31, 2008 2:51 pm
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...
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pstepka77
Aug 1, 2008 9:04 pm
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...
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Laurence Lock Lee
llocklee
Aug 2, 2008 2:04 pm
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 ...
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andymmcdermott
Aug 4, 2008 5:35 pm
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...
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Paul Burton
PaulB300
Aug 4, 2008 6:20 pm
Andy -- thanks for sharing that post regarding individual personalities in relation to network scores. Mehra had a good article on personality and network...
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caikjaer
Aug 5, 2008 2:11 am
Hi all, I just noticed this paper which was published by HBS (Working paper: Communication (and Coordination?) in a Modern, Complex Organization ...
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Rick Fowler
efowler01
Aug 7, 2008 12:39 pm
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 ...
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Laurence Lock Lee
llocklee
Aug 7, 2008 1:09 pm
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 ...
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Valdis Krebs
orgnet9
Aug 7, 2008 3:31 pm
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...
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Jan-Kees Buenen
jkbuenen
Aug 7, 2008 6:59 pm
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...
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andymmcdermott
Aug 8, 2008 5:13 am
I keep hoping someone will introduce email-based communication analysis applications that seamless to install and rapidly provide initial results. Clearly...
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Bob Bater
bbater2001
Aug 8, 2008 5:12 pm
Andy McDermott said: Ø I keep hoping someone will introduce email-based communication analysis applications that seamless to install and rapidly provide ...
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Valdis Krebs
orgnet9
Aug 8, 2008 5:35 pm
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...
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Bob Bater
bbater2001
Aug 8, 2008 6:43 pm
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...
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Charles Armstrong
c3circus
Aug 8, 2008 8:12 pm
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...
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Mahesh S Paradkar
mparadka
Aug 11, 2008 4:19 am
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...
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Fatih Taşkın
taskin.fatih
Aug 11, 2008 7:00 am
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 ...
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Patti Anklam
pattianklam
Aug 11, 2008 11:51 am
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...
