Just returned from KnowledgeNets 2003 (part of InfoToday 2003). I gave my talk on SNA to a small but interested audience. Made some good connections, learned some new things, walked around New York City a lot from my hotel room a block away from the 53rd Street branch of the NY Public Library, where I worked for six months during my college years.

Heard a good talk by Ross Dawson. His talk on Living Networks included a wonderful set of slides demonstrating the weightlessness of the GNP. He’s into networks, intensely. We spoke, later, about emerging networks and social network analysis. Just finishing David Gurteen’s latest knowledge-letter, I see that he has connected with Ross as well. It’s nice when networks circle around like that.

Also at Knowledge Nets, I discovered that I am connecting two individuals from the same company, who unbeknownst to each other have been promoting social network analysis within that company. (Different geographies, different groups and roles.) I’ve been exchanging phone and emails with one of them, who found me via my ASIS article, and just met the other at the conference. Yes, the connection is in progress!

Hubert St Onge talked about communities, and appears also to be concerned about the persistence of knowledge objects in certain software products.