Invitation: The Plugged-In Manager
Join author and Santa Clara University professor Terri Griffith for an evening conversation on The Plugged-In Manager.
A collaboration of two top Bay Area graduate business schools brings you this valuable networking event.
Registration includes refreshments and your personal copy of The Plugged-In Manager. Registration is limited to assure quality interaction with Terri and networking with other delegates.
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Thurs 15 Dec 2011 - Evening Program Schedule - The Plugged-in Manager
Hult International Business School
1355 Sansome Street, San Francisco
Southern Room 2nd Floor
5:30 - 6:00 Networking, refreshments
6:00 - 6:45 Main program by the author
6:45 - 7:00 Questions
7:00 - 7:30 Book signing
7:30 - 8:00 More networking
8:00 End of Program
Review of The Plugged-In Manager
Get In Tune with Your People, Technology, and Organization to Thrive
Too often discussions of management practice focus exclusively on managing people and organizational issues. Rarely, however, do they incorporate a discussion about technology or address all three dimensions in a balanced way. When they do, the result is game changing. In our hypercompetitive environment, those managers who are outstanding at being plugged into their people, technology, and organizational processes simultaneously excel at coming up with effective business solutions.
The Plugged-In Manager makes the case that being plugged-in—the ability to see choices across each of an organization's dimensions of people, technology, and organizational processes and then to mix them together into new and powerful organizational strategies, structures, and practices—may be the most important capability a manager can develop to succeed in the 21st century. Step by step Griffith shows you how to acquire this ability.
- Shows what it takes for business managers to succeed as technology and organizations become more and more complex
- Profiles exceptional leaders and organizations who are plugged-in, such as Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com.
- Offers a fresh look at key management issues
Filled with compelling case studies and drawing on first-hand interviews, The Plugged-In Manager highlights this often neglected managerial capability and the costs of only focusing on one dimension rather than all three.
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The Plugged-In Manager
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Social Network Websites
Most Social Network Websites will fail. Some attempt to call themselves social network services (SNS). They’re not. Most all are actually application destinations, not services.
Application focus and centralization is the fatal flaw of them all. They are like the wall-cities and castles of Europe. Suitable at one point, but structurally failing over time. As people, culture and society transformed and evolved from slave, to serf, to subject, to citizen and, eventually, to individual, walled cities and castles became obsolete. Same for social network applications. The days of being a social information slave are winding down…
People are discovering their data are extremely valuable. They are resisting sharing it. It makes no sense to fork over all you personal data for nothing. Some ambitious sites even charge you for the privilege. What chutzpah!
Sidebar:
See how the change works at CommBank.
“Commonwealth Bank becomes just another customer of your services. Imagine a legion of individuals all trading their own worth on global futures markets, being rent takers instead of rent givers?”
All social media, services, data, platforms and applications will eventually be a 'dial-tone.' It will be like RFC 821 (1982) the first pervasive email protocol. This enabled hundreds of bespoke email clients applications to inter-operate and debuted the era of social computing. The loci of information control become individuals… not bespoke application monoliths.
Today's social media dial tone is the application program interface (API). Thousands of social APIs enable continuous social computing innovation. The 'Hot APIs' today are Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Google+, Maps, Flickr, LinkedIn and so forth. They enable perpetual, innovative social mashups delivering profound customer experiences. See -
http://www.programmableweb.com/apis
Remember, personalized social computing portals have been around for decades. They vary in their degree of freedom to adjust and adapt. Vast libraries of API-facing widgets propel customer-focused experiences. My Yahoo! is a current example.
Some destinations are correct, valid and worthwhile. However, the trend is towards users authoring, owning and creating their own social environments. In the future, sharing is discretionary, not compulsory. New offerings must provide benefits and advantages to access your personal information.
As usual, It is all a matter of degree. As the saying goes, "The future is already here, it's just not very evenly distributed." (Gibson)
Today's social media walled cities puts us, the users, somewhere right between slaves and serfs. Zuckerberg happens to be today's lord of the manor. It won't last.
Social Network Websites
Most Social Network Websites will fail. Some attempt to call themselves social network services (SNS). They’re not. Most all are actually application destinations, not services.
Application focus and centralization is the fatal flaw of them all. They are like the wall-cities of Europe. Suitable for a time, but structurally failing over time. As people, culture and society transformed and evolved from slave, to serf, to subject, to citizen and, eventually, to individual, wall cities became obsolete. Same for social network applications. The days of being a social information slave are winding down.
People are discovering their data are extremely valuable. They are resisting sharing it. It makes no sense to fork over all you personal data for nothing. Some ambitious sites even charge you for the privilege. What chutzpah!
Sidebar:
See how the change works at CommBank.
“Commonwealth Bank becomes just another customer of your services. Imagine a legion of individuals all trading their own worth on global futures markets, being rent takers instead of rent givers?”
All social media, services, data, platforms and applications will eventually be a 'dial-tone.' It will be like RFC 821 (1982) the first pervasive email protocol. This enabled hundreds of bespoke email clients applications to inter-operate and debuted the era of social computing. The loci of information control become individuals… not bespoke application monoliths.
Today's social media dial tone is the application program interface (API). Thousands of API enable the creation of continuous social computing innovation. The 'Hot APIs' today are Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Google, Maps, Flickr, LinkedIn and so forth. They enable perpetual, innovative social mashups delivering profound customer experiences. See -
http://www.programmableweb.com/apis
Remember, personalized social computing portals have been around for decades. They vary in their degree of freedom to adjust and adapt. Vast libraries of API-facing widgets propel customer-focused experiences. My Yahoo! is a current example.
Some destinations are correct, valid and worthwhile. However, the trend is towards users authoring, owning and creating their own social environments. In the future, sharing is discretionary, not compulsory. New offerings must provide benefits and advantages to access your personal information.
As usual, It is all a matter of degree. As the saying goes, "The future is already here, it's just not very evenly distributed." (Gibson)
Today's social media walled cities puts us, the users, somewhere right between slaves and serfs. Zuckerberg happens to be today's lord of the manor. It won't last.
Urban Network Analysis
MIT researchers create new Urban Network Analysis toolbox
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — MIT researchers have created a new Urban Network Analysis (UNA) toolbox that enables urban designers and planners to describe the spatial patterns of cities using mathematical network analysis methods. Such tools can support better informed and more resilient urban design and planning in a context of rapid urbanization. “Network centrality measures are useful predictors for a number of interesting urban phenomena,” explains Andres Sevtsuk, the principal investigator of the City Form Research Group at MIT that produced the toolbox. “They help explain, for instance, on which streets or buildings one is most likely to find local commerce, where foot or vehicular traffic is expected to be highest, and why city land values vary from one location to another.”
More on Urban Network Analysis and application download.
CFP: ION5
Intra-Organizational Network Conference (ION 5)
Hosted by:
LINKS Center for Social Network Analysis
University of Kentucky
April 13-15, 2012
The mission of the LINKS Center is to promote a social network perspective on the study and management of organizations. The ION conference brings together top scholars to present the latest research on social networks and management. On April 13-15, 2012, in Lexington, KY, the LINKS center will host the ION Conference for the 5th time.
Confirmed speakers for ION 5 include:
Stephen P. Borgatti - Chellgren Chair of Management, University of Kentucky
Daniel J. Brass - Professor of Innovation Management, University of Kentucky
Ronald Burt - Professor of Sociology and Strategy, University of Chicago
Martin Kilduff – Diageo Professor of Management Studies, Cambridge University
David Krackhardt - Professor of Organizations, Carnegie Mellon University
Open Submissions
The ION conference has been kept, in previous years, purposefully small to enable intense engagement and discussion. This year, we would like to invite up to five exceptional papers that focus on phenomena of relevance to the study of social networks in an organizational context. Authors of accepted papers will have the opportunity to present their work to noted scholars in the field and receive quality feedback.
Please submit a full paper for consideration to Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca by November 1, 2011. The authors of approximately 5 selected papers will be notified by November 15, 2011. There is no attendance or meal fee, but participants are expected to cover their own transportation and lodging expenses.
ION 5 conference organizers:
Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca
Ajay Mehra
Theresa Floyd
Brandon Ofem
For more information, please refer to ION Conference website at:
https://sites.google.com/site/ion5conference/
LINKS Center website:
Social Network Analysis and Organizations
Workshop October 24 - 28, 2011 @ VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
The Social Network Analysis and Organizations workshop is a comprehensive five-day workshop for PhDs, post-docs and other interested participants who would like an introduction to applying social network theory and methods to studies in and between organizations. The workshop offers the opportunity to get acquainted with the basic elements of social network methods with an emphasis on organizational network studies. We also offer a chance to gain hands-on experience with social network software with data provided either by yourself or us.
The Workshop includes an introduction to social networks for novices, followed by lecture and discussion sessions on network research in both intra-organizational networks and inter organizational networks. Within these topics, we will discuss specific issues including: defining social networks, basic network measures, types of relations and networks, types of measures of network position (including centrality and structural holes), homophily, network emergence and change, transitivity, hypothesis testing, QAP regression, reciprocity, modeling network structure, decision points in research design, data collection and methods, and issues with publishing and reviewing network research. A practical introduction to UCINET (basic social network analysis software tool) and SIENA (longitudinal network software package) will also be given. The workshop will conclude with a parallel mini-conference, where participants have the opportunity to present their current network-related work and have their work discussed in a group setting (including discussing possible analyses of network data).
Given by: Department of Organization Sciences on behalf of Graduate School of Social Sciences (GSSS) and the Amsterdam Business Research Institute (ABRI), VU University Amsterdam & University of Kentucky, LINKS International Center for Research on Social Networks in Business
Faculty includes: Joe Labianca (University of Kentucky), Dan Halgin (University of Kentucky), Gerhard van de Bunt (VU University), Peter Groenewegen (VU University), & Maurits de Klepper (VU University).
Practical Information:
Workshop website: http://sites.google.com/site/snaworkshop2011/
Dates: Monday 24 October - Friday 28 October 2011
Location: VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Cost: external PhD students €450, for other participants (e.g. faculty, consultants) a higher amount is set.
Deadline for application: 1 September 2011
Please send inquiries to: snaworkshop@vu.nl or contact (+31) (0)20 59 86665.
Fiscal Localism and Social Networks
The theory and practice of fiscal localism is expanding. Your local farmers market is an example. The Buy Local movement of ‘locarians’ is another example. Popular local community currencies have been expanding, with hundreds in the USA and thousands worldwide.
The specific purpose of fiscal localism is to open, nurture and advance local market structures and economies. This in turn helps these local markets and regional networks trade much more efficiently. Outcomes are diverse, open and prosperous economic ecologies.
Often, fiscal localism is confused with a closed economy or autarchy. Autarchy is when a political state creates closed economic policies. Creating deliberate market barriers, planned and closed economies, always eventually fails. Japan prior to 1850, Germany in the 1930s, Romania 1980s and North Korea today are typical examples of failed closed economies.
Some people perceive fiscal localism is a backlash to global economies. They are terrified by the mythical hegemony of global capitalism. They believe prosperous, local and open markets somehow diminish the chilling specter of evil global capitalism.
On the contrary, precisely the opposite is true! Greater economies prosper when lesser economies prosper. Fiscal localism propels distributed capitalism. In addition, it fundamentally advances the principle of distributism – where the ownership of the means of production is spread as widely as possible among the general population. In short, as the saying goes,
“Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists,
but too few capitalists!”- G.K. Chesterton
Prosperity, in all markets and economies, local and global, depends on perpetual, open interaction with the environment of suppliers, talent, capital, markets, etc.
Fiscal localism and distributism are important, expanding principles. They are some concerns however, particularly the notion of bounding, closing or worse, attempting to control markets and economies among strongly-tied or ‘like-minded’ groups.
The social network principle of homophily is simply that similarity breeds connection, i.e., ‘birds of a feather.’ It includes structures and network ties of every type, including marriage, friendship, work, advice, support, information transfer, race, exchange, membership, business and all other types of relationship. The result is that people's personal networks are homogeneous with regard to many sociodemographic, economic, behavioral and intrapersonal characteristics.
Homophily is deeply problematic and harmful to fiscal localism. ‘Closed’ networks sharply limits people's social worlds and opportunity space. It has powerful implications for limiting information they receive, the attitudes they form, and the interactions they experience. Beware. Closed networks breed ignorance.
Fiscal localism and distributism depend entirely on diverse, open hetrophilious social networks. Structures and patterns of fluid ‘weak ties’ fosters exchange and prosperity. For example, the thriving local milieu of farmers, craftsmen and shop owners, informs the local markets and creates the open social arrangements for exchange, markets and economic prosperity.
On the contrary, the ‘strong ties’ of narrowband, parochial and homophilious social networks limits diversity, limits market exchange and creates economic dysfunction. Strong ties are difficult and costly to maintain, sap energy, attenuate authentic exchange, alienate participation and sharply limit market viability.
The current revolution in social commerce and collaborative consumption like GroupOn depend entirely on radically open, fluid, diverse and emergent ‘weak-tie’ social networks.
Social commerce and prosperous localism depends on loosely connected ad hoc constituencies that form spontaneously for a uniquely configured market offering. Just look at the massive crowds at the tomato vendor’s table at the farmer’s market in late August when they are the best!
Fortunately, sheaves of research over decades reveal individuals have on average about 10 or 12 ‘strong ties.’ it is because they are so costly and difficult to maintain. The same people often have hundreds of ‘weak ties.’ Quite simply, this science makes fiscal localism and distributism the natural order. Besides, it’s a lot more fun to stroll the local farmer’s market than the aisles at Wal-Mart!
Social Flights on Bloomberg
Hi - Nice interview with Social Flights CEO, Jay Deragon.
The Social Flights social network service (SNS) is Travel Tribes. Join your California Tribe and start flying today! It is free, easy and fun.
2ND VIENNESE TALKS ON RESILIENCE RESEARCH & NETWORKS
New Perspectives on Growth, Development and Innovation in Unstable Times
We cordially invite you to participate in our second high profile workshop with international experts from the fields of resilience research & network theory organized by FAS.research, IIASA, Federation of Austrian Industries, Austrian Ministry for Science & Research.
Resilience is about the capacity to deal with change and continue to develop. To facilitate the emergence of resilient systems will become a main challenge for politics, economy, and society in our increasingly instable world (climate change, peak oil, currency and budget crises, geopolitical challenges).
Resilience research is an ascendant paradigm aiming to explore the structural features of adaptive and robust ecosystems, societies, enterprises, and economies. Network theory provides a robust language to better describe and understand those features. The workshop will bring together the fields of resilience research & network theory and will demonstrate their value for adaptive management and strategy development in politics, economy, environment, and society.
The talks of the speakers are focused around three guiding questions:
- What is the evidence of resilience within a specific system?
- What are the threats for resiliency in a specific system?
- What role do networks play in the design of decision making structures?
When? 26th May 2011, 09 am - 6.00 pm
Where? Haus der Industrie, Schwarzenbergplatz 4, 1031 Wien/Vienna - Austria
Language? English
Registration: Participation is free for all, but subject to registration.
Please register by sending an e-mail to: office@fas.at
Enigma
Alan Turing was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science and instrumental in the creation of the modern computer.
See the trailer for a new documentary on Alan Turing.
Short Course on Complexity
Exploring Complexity in Science and Engineering
from a Santa Fe Institute Perspective
Monday, May 23 – Wednesday, May 25, 2011
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
This two-and-a-half day course is an intensive, immersive tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts that seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals. This course, sponsored by the Santa Fe Institute, is specifically designed for professionals, faculty, students, and others who are curious to explore and apply this new interdisciplinary scientific approach.
This course has no prerequisites and requires no specific math or science background.
Course director: Melanie Mitchell, Professor, Portland State University and Santa Fe Institute
Faculty and Topics: :
Aaron Clauset: Networks
Uri Wilensky: Agent-Based Modeling
David Krakauer: Complexity in Biology
W. Brian Arthur: The Nature of Technology
J. Doyne Farmer: Predicting Technological Progress
Melanie Mitchell: Dynamics and Chaos, Genetic Algorithms and Biologically Inspired Computing, Information Processing and Computation in Complex Systems
Tuition: General: $1,200; Faculty/Postdocs: $800; Full-time; Students: $500
For more information, go to http://www.santafe.edu/education/schools/short-course/ or e-mail education@santafe.edu.
Clouds, big data, and smart assets
Ten tech-enabled business trends to watch
Excerpt
Making the network the organization
In earlier research, we noted that the Web was starting to force open the boundaries of organizations, allowing nonemployees to offer their expertise in novel ways. We called this phenomenon “tapping into a world of talent.” Now many companies are pushing substantially beyond that starting point, building and managing flexible networks that extend across internal and often even external borders. The recession underscored the value of such flexibility in managing volatility. We believe that the more porous, networked organizations of the future will need to organize work around critical tasks rather than molding it to constraints imposed by corporate structures.
At one global energy services company, geographic and business unit boundaries prevented managers from accessing the best talent across the organization to solve clients’ technical problems. Help desks supported engineers, for example, but rarely provided creative solutions for the most difficult issues. Using social-network analysis, the company mapped information flows and knowledge resources among its worldwide staff. The analysis identified several bottlenecks but also pointed to a set of solutions. Using Web technologies to expand access to experts around the world, the company set up new innovation communities across siloed business units. These networks have helped speed up service delivery while improving quality by 48 percent, according to company surveys.
Dow Chemical set up its own social network to help managers identify the talent they need to execute projects across different business units and functions. To broaden the pool of talent, Dow has even extended the network to include former employees, such as retirees. Other companies are using networks to tap external talent pools. These networks include online labor markets (such as Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk) and contest services (such as Innocentive and Zooppa) that help solve business problems.
Management orthodoxies still prevent most companies from leveraging talent beyond full-time employees who are tied to existing organizational structures. But adhering to these orthodoxies limits a company’s ability to tackle increasingly complex challenges. Pilot programs that connect individuals across organizational boundaries are a good way to experiment with new models, but incentive structures must be overhauled and role models established to make these programs succeed. In the longer term, networked organizations will focus on the orchestration of tasks rather than the “ownership” of workers.
Clouds, big data, and smart assets
- Jacques Bughin, Michael Chui, James Manyika
McKinsey Global Institute, August 2010
SNA and Leadership Networks
Abstract
Leadership development practitioners have become increasingly interested in networks as a way to strengthen relationships among leaders in fields, communities, and organizations. This paper offers a framework for conceptualizing different types of leadership networks and uses case examples to identify outcomes typically associated with each type of network.
The Leadership Learning Community is among the sponsors of the NorCal SNA Retreat 11 Mar 11.
The Network Mindset
To fundamentally advance the network mindset people must first understand what a network is. Unfortunately, most all the discussion about networks concerns conventional hierarchy, ordinary organizational structures, relationships in social networks and popular social network applications like Facebook. These have little or nothing to do with understanding networks or creating an authentic network mindset.
There is simply no way to achieve any degree of network comprehension or fluency without the basics. For example, totally absent from the popular network conversation are the very basic principles of networks such as centrality, degree, prestige, betweenness, reciprocity, etc.
While people’s motives are genuine, there is no apparent or useful competency in routine network principles, visualization or optimization. Trying to advance a network mindset and practices without the elemental concepts is just plain impossible. Some compare current network thinking to Victorian-era surgical practices…
That’s the bad news. The good news is that it is easy, quick and straightforward to gain a very effective working knowledge of networks. Network visualization, a network map, for example, has an immediate impact on the network mindset. When people see an empirical map of their networks it immediately changes their thinking. Seeing is believing, as the saying goes. In a moment they develop the essential cognitive bias to networks.
There is more good news. People don’t need to be graph theory (network math) scholars or a SNA geek to achieve immediate gains from network metrics. Just a basic understanding of centrality, for example, creates sharp improvements in community effectiveness, influencer networks and purposeful ecologies.
Striving to achieve an network mindset is absolutely critical and a noble activity. Bravo! Businesses, cause-based organizations and mission-oriented people will gain incalculable benefits from the network mindset. By far the best way to achieve the network transformation is to seek out existing practitioners and to connect with accomplished network leaders.
For the most part, the scholarly and academic side of networks is best avoided because it is overly pedantic and is research focused. For example, the sole mission of the Network Singularity and the Future of Networks is to achieve fundamental advancements in network thinking, comprehensions, visualization, optimization and mastery for all network inhabitants.
Recall, the network mindset is natural. Our natural worlds, from DNA to the cosmos, are all networks. Networks have specific immutable properties. Basic fluency in key network principles will propel people and organizations to achieve greater impact and positive outcomes overall.
"Look deep into nature, then you will understand everything better."
-Albert Einstein
Organizational Network Analysis
The Network Singularity, the Future of Networks, and KM Silicon Valley are delighted to invite you to your next leadership retreat on Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) in San Francisco. Details are below.
What: Organizational Network Analysis
Where: San Francisco, California USA
When: 11 March 2011, 9AM – 5PM
Who: Valdis Krebs - http://www.orgnet.com/
How: Organizational Network Analysis (Register by 11 February for a 20% discount)
Who Should Attend Organizational Network Analysis Retreat?
Forward-thinking business and technology leaders, representing finance, life sciences, manufacturing, biotechnology, service and support, energy, aerospace, government, non-profit and educational institutions, organizations and markets. Your practice-based experience is tuned for enterprise executives, leaders, professionals, consultants, developers, engineers, scholars, students, researchers, investors and entrepreneurs. There are no prerequisites.
Long a critical research tool of anthropologists, sociologists, economists and scientists, social network analysis (SNA) is now an essential organizational capability and practice. Entrepreneurs, investors, organizations, even Hollywood studios, know the incredible importance and impact of the social graph and its analysis. Over the years, organizational network analysis (ONA) has emerged as the leading, practical application of SNA for business and organizations.
In this popular, guided tutorial, you will gain practical understanding and skills in applied ONA. The focus is on practices and ONA Case Studies. Using InFlow 3.1, your community event will equip you with the tools, know-how and relationships to achieve deep network comprehension, mastery of network analysis and improved outcomes overall.
About Valdis Krebs and InFlow
Valdis Krebs is the Founder, and Chief Scientist of OrgNet. Valdis is the world’s foremost authority on ONA. Krebs is an accomplished researcher, trainer and author. He is also the developer of InFlow software for social and organizational network analysis [SNA/ONA]. Since 1987, Valdis has led over 500 SNA/ONA projects.
The easy to use InFlow 3.1 software measures and visualizes organizational networks. InFlow makes knowledge exchange, information flow and emergent communities visible. InFlow reveals networks of alliances and other connections within and between organizations and communities. The visual and analytic advantages of InFlow inform improvements in organizational networks to achieve impact, business performance improvements and positive outcomes. Valuable links…
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Event Details and Registration
Futures of Networks and KM Silicon Valley leadership retreats are not lofty or theoretical. Rather, they provision the essential practices and specific expertise to prosper in today’s network organizations and economies. The focus is on authentic conversation, collaboration and building relationships critical to success. Participation is limited to optimize conversation and relationship building.
See a decade of Future of Networks and KM Silicon Valley Testimonials –
http://futureofnetworks.com/futureofnetworks/Testimonials.htm
Early-bird registration is open.
Registration: Organizational Network Analysis (Register by 11 February for a 20% discount) (http://www.regonline.com/SNA2010)
Tuition includes materials, refreshments, luncheon, InFlow 3.1 discount and the Future of Networks post-event reception. All are welcome. There are no prerequisites. Secure, low-cost, online registration in advance required. There is no on-site or day-of-event registration. Photo identification is required for building access. This event will reach capacity so early registration is recommended.
Group registration is available and recommended for intact teams and delegates the same organization. Contact the Future of Networks for special academic and non-profit discounts - info@futureofnetworks.com.
Future of Networks
Mail: info@futureofnetworks.com
Web: http://www.futureofnetworks.com
Blog: http://networksingularity.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/fonetworks
Networks, Crowds, and Markets:
Reasoning About a Highly Connected World
Over the past decade there has been a growing public fascination with the complex "connectedness" of modern society. This connectedness is found in many incarnations: in the rapid growth of the Internet and the Web, in the ease with which global communication now takes place, and in the ability of news and information as well as epidemics and financial crises to spread around the world with surprising speed and intensity. These are phenomena that involve networks, incentives, and the aggregate behavior of groups of people; they are based on the links that connect us and the ways in which each of our decisions can have subtle consequences for the outcomes of everyone else.
Networks, Crowds, and Markets:
Reasoning About a Highly Connected World
Networks, Crowds, and Markets combines different scientific perspectives in its approach to understanding networks and behavior. Drawing on ideas from economics, sociology, computing and information science, and applied mathematics, it describes the emerging field of study that is growing at the interface of all these areas, addressing fundamental questions about how the social, economic, and technological worlds are connected.
By David Easley and Jon Kleinberg 
7th UK Social Networks Conference
| University of Greenwich, London Thursday 7th July – Saturday 9th July, 2011
The UK Social Networks Conference offers an interdisciplinary venue for social and behavioral scientists, sociologists, educationalists, geographers, political scientists, mathematicians, computer scientists, physicists, practitioners and others to present their work in the area of social networks. The primary objective of the conference is to facilitate interactions between the many different disciplines interested in network analysis. The conference provides a unique opportunity for the dissemination and debate of recent advances in theoretical and experimental network research. Keynote Speakers:
Important dates:
Sponsored by:
Call for Papers: We invite submissions of extended abstracts on theories, methods, or applications of social network analysis. Extended abstracts should be of no more than three pages and clearly indicate either the research purpose, methodology, and findings, or the discussion area and implications for the field. Topics include, but are not limited to:
Organisers:
Academic Committee:
Presentation Format
Additional Short Courses (Students £50; Other £100):
Registration Details: Authors will be notified of acceptance by late-April. All accepted extended abstracts will be made available to delegates prior to the Conference. Speakers may wish to bring paper copies of their articles for distribution during the Conference. Location: This conference, hosted by the University of Greenwich Business School, is being held in the magnificent UNESCO World Heritage Site Old Royal Naval College Park Row, London, SE10 9LS. Registration Fees:
Cancellation Policy: If you wish to cancel your registration please contact businessevents@gre.ac.uk
Accommodation: A 10% discounted rate is available for conference participants at the following hotels, both adjacent to the campus. Simply quote University of Greenwich when booking:
Other nearby accommodation venues are: Devonport House and Holiday Inn Express, Greenwich. Exhibition and Trade Displays Please contact Cathy O'Kane below.
For more information, booking details and paper submissions: Tel: 020 8331 9083 E-mail: businessevents@gre.ac.uk Web Page: https://sites.google.com/site/uksocialnetworksconference2011/ |
The Words of the Year
In the communicating section, Grant Barrett offers these key words.
coffice: In South Korea, a coffee shop habitually used as an office by customers, who mooch its space, electricity, Wi-Fi and other resources. Presumably, they pay for the coffee.
halfalogue: Half of a conversation, like an overheard phone call. The term was coined in the research paper “Overheard Cell-Phone Conversations: When Less Speech is More Distracting” in the journal Psychological Science.
sofalize: A British marketing term created for people who prefer to stay home and communicate with others electronically.
mansplainer: A man compelled to explain or give an opinion about everything — especially to a woman. He speaks, often condescendingly, even if he doesn’t know what he’s talking about or even if it’s none of his business. Old term: a boor.
social graph: The structure of personal networks, who people know and how they know them, especially online. The term probably came from the internal lingo at Facebook, but it has spread widely among technology companies.
Social Media Research Foundation
The Social Media Research Foundation is dedicated to Open Tools, Open Data, and Open Scholarship.
Social media is the term for all the ways people connect to people through computation. Mobile devices, social networks, micro-blogging and location sharing are just a few of the ways people engage in computer-mediated collective action.
Mapping, measuring and understanding the landscape of social media is our mission. We support tool projects that enable the collection, analysis and visualization of social media data. We host data sets that are relevant to social media research. And we will support graduate students studying and building research related to social media.
Today, in addition to NodeXL we are expanding to include data collection tools for additional social media sources, better support for exploring the changes in networks over time, and web based applications to expand access to network analysis services and insights.
- Marc Smith, Director
Social Media Research Foundation
http://twitter.com/marc_smith