May 2008 archives

May 24, 2008 by Patti

Net Work as Visualized by Nancy White

To continue the visualization theme, I’m thrilled to show you the visualization that Nancy White did of my talk at Community 2.0. In addition to vislogging the conference, Nancy did a marvelous interactive session wherein she created and developed a timeline and future for collaboration. I’ll be writing up and sharing my notes from the [...]

May 9, 2008 by Patti

The News Story in Value Network Maps

From John Maloney on the Value-Networks group this week, a link to a wonderful blog post, Value Network Maps at NewsTools2008, from an unconference-style mashup of journalists, technologists, and entrepreneurs. The event included the unveiling of value network maps that showed “the Old News Story” and the “emerging News Ecology.” This is the first time [...]

May 6, 2008 by Patti

Networks and Governance

Governance is a word with many fine distinctions. Most definitions use terms like power, authority, decision-rights, policy, management, control. Governance is applied to political entities, corporate institutions, increasingly, IT. While writing Net Work, I chose to define governance from the perspective of the word’s root, which means “steering:” “Governance is the fine art and delicate [...]