July 2006 archives

July 30, 2006 by Patti

Visualization and Sensemaking

I should be working on Net Work, but just came on a co-incident point between my writing and a research project I’m working on for a client. For the book, I include visualization as one of the means by which we make sense of our networks. Obviously, organizational network analysis and value network analysis are [...]

July 26, 2006 by Patti

Building “Virtual” Networks in Corporations

I’ve just had the pleasure, over the past couple of months, to collaborate with Nancy Settle-Murphy on articles for the Chrysalis newsletter, Communique. The second of two articles, Real-time conversations crucial for networking in a virtual world, was posted today. The first article, Networking in a virtual world an essential skill for success, was published [...]

July 22, 2006 by Patti

A regional dis-advantage

I spent some time today looking at a book chapter, “Silicon Valley Networks,” from The Silicon Valley Edge. This chapter is by Emilio J Castilla, Hokyu Hwang, Ellen Granovetter, and Mark Granovetter.They analyzed the social networks in Silicon Valley and how they contributed to the success of the Valley over time, with the kinds of [...]

July 17, 2006 by Patti

Relatedness and BlogHer

One of the reasons I used the word relatedness in my blog title when I began it is because of a women’s task force I participated on in the early 1990s, when I was at Digital Equipment Corporation. The basis for the task force was a concern about the retention of talented women in the [...]

July 13, 2006 by Patti

Intellectual capital, knowledge management, and value networks

I was doing fact checking for Net Work yesterday and wanted to confirm the timeline for the work on intellectual capital and knowledge management. I discovered a short history of the idea of intellectual and its evolution on Karl-Erik Sveiby‘s web site. Two interesting tidbits: Fall 1990: Term “Intellectual Capital” coined in Stewart’s presence Jan [...]