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[1108.4361] The relationship between acquaintanceship and coauthorship in scientific collaboration networks
"This article examines the relationship between acquaintanceship and coauthorship patterns in a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional, geographically distributed research center. Two social networks are constructed and compared: a network of coauthorship, representing how researchers write articles with one another, and a network of acquaintanceship, representing how those researchers know each other on a personal level, based on their responses to an online survey. Statistical analyses of the topology and community structure of these networks point to the importance of small-scale, local, personal networks predicated upon acquaintanceship for accomplishing collaborative work in scientific communities."
academic-culture  network-theory  citation  social-networks 
august 2011 by Vaguery
[1106.0296] The Emergence of Leadership in Social Networks
"We study a networked version of the minority game in which agents can choose to follow the choices made by a neighbouring agent in a social network. We show that for a wide variety of networks a leadership structure always emerges, with most agents following the choice made by a few agents. We find a suitable parameterisation which highlights the universal aspects of the behaviour and which also indicates where results depend on the type of social network."
minority-game  social-networks  sociology  agent-based  network-theory 
august 2011 by Vaguery
Towards a Theory of Corporate and Financial Sector Solidarity | Rortybomb
"Speculation: There’s a critique of the regulators and key decision makers during the crisis that invokes cultural capital and the idea that regulators are socialized with Wall Street in a way that it is difficult for them to exercise any type of power over them, to see their interests in conflict. I wonder if the same is true for the corporate sector. As the firm goes global, and as the white-collar workforce is broken by computerization and globalization, more and more elite corporate positions will be filled by those leaving Wall Street. (Has this already happened? Data/Studies?) If so, you’ll see an even more lucrative revolving door between corporate elites and financial elites. As such, any natural checks to financial sector power coming from the corporate market space is less likely to happen."
its-the-unnatural-checks-that-will-be-interesting  banking  financial-crisis  public-policy  regulation  corporatism  financialzation  social-networks  cultural-assumptions 
july 2011 by Vaguery
Private nonprofit foundations & Public Health: Potential conflicts of interest in corporate links « Biofortified
"They leave us with some strong statements and suggestions:

A private foundation clearly has the legal right to spend money however it wishes within the limits of the law; yet, in an environment where private foundations influence the future direction of, for example, what programs will be introduced into a foreign community, in a manner that does not necessarily involve directorship or voting from the community members themselves, it is reasonable to subject the decision-making processes of these entities to public debate, especially if these funds were to have otherwise been collected for public redistribution through federal taxation."
nonprofit  conflict-of-interest  network-theory  social-networks  governance  law  propriety 
may 2011 by Vaguery
Embedding Collaboration from the Start - Jimmy Guterman - Our Editors - Harvard Business Review
"At Nokia, informal mentoring begins as soon as someone steps into a new job. Typically, within a few days, the employee's manager will sit down and list all the people in the organization, no matter in what location, it would be useful for the employee to meet. This is a deeply ingrained cultural norm, which probably originated when Nokia was a smaller and simpler organization. The manager sits with the newcomer, just as her manager sat with her when she joined, and reviews what topics the newcomer should discuss with each person on the list and why establishing a relationship with him or her is important. It is then standard for the newcomer to actively set up meetings with the people on the list, even when it means traveling to other locations. The gift of time — in the form of hours spent on coaching and building networks — is seen as crucial to the collaborative culture at Nokia."
collaboration  management  Workantile-ideas  social-norms  social-networks  organizational-design 
may 2011 by Vaguery
[1103.0086] A generic trust framework for large-scale open systems using machine learning
"… As a departure from such traditional trust models, we propose a generic, machine learning approach based trust framework where an agent uses its own previous transactions (with other agents) to build a knowledge base, and utilize this to assess the trustworthiness of a transaction based on associated features, which are capable of distinguishing successful transactions from unsuccessful ones. These features are harnessed using appropriate machine learning algorithms to extract relationships between the potential transaction and previous transactions.…"
machine-learning  social-networks  emergent-design  trust  agent-based  from delicious
april 2011 by Vaguery
The Revolution Reaction Rate - Ideas Are Cheap
"No wonder they shut down the internet. It's more powerful than guns. Smart mobs with online capabilities are defeating status quo organization ruled by hierarchy and unfamiliar with coordinating technologies. These mobile smart mobs can be built on the fly in a matter of hours or days and they will continue to get smarter. Reaction rates are getting much, much faster."
social-networks  social-dynamics  disintermediation-in-action  workantile-exchange  entrepreneurship-as-pathology  from delicious
february 2011 by Vaguery
[1008.1004] Identification of Overlapping Communities by Locally Calculating Community-Changing Resolution Levels
"…We tested our algorithm on a small benchmark graph and on a network of about 500 papers in information science (weighted with the Salton index of bibliographic coupling). In our tests, this approach results in characteristic ranges of resolution where a large resolution change does not lead to a growth of the natural community. Such stable modules were also obtained by applying the LFK algorithm but since we determine communities for all resolution values in one run, our approach is faster than the LFK reference. And our algorithm reveals the hierarchical structure of the graph more easily."
network-theory  communities  social-networks  citation  algorithms  exploratory-data-analysis  heuristics 
august 2010 by Vaguery
[0901.4407] A dynamic model of time-dependent complex networks
"We have embarked on a research program designed to develop universal models that can recreate empiri- cally observed phenomena in dynamic complex networks. We have shown that, using a suitable reinforced random walk on a “long-term” underlay network, one is able to produce instantaneous networks which reproduce qualitatively characteristic features of real world dynamic networks. This includes, in particular, the construc- tion of scale-free sub-networks of a scale-free “underlay” network, whose local hubs substantially differ from sub- network to sub-network and from those of the underlay.…"
network-theory  complexology  social-networks  preferential-attachment  models  nudge-targets 
july 2010 by Vaguery
[1006.4622] A High-Resolution Human Contact Network for Infectious Disease Transmission
"… Using wireless sensor network technology, we obtained high-resolution data of CPIs during a typical day at an American high school, permitting the reconstruction of the social network relevant for infectious disease transmission. At a 94% coverage, we collected 762,868 CPIs at a maximal distance of 3 meters among 788 individuals. The data revealed a high density network with typical small world properties and a relatively homogenous distribution of both interaction time and interaction partners among subjects.…"
epidemiology  network-theory  social-networks  real-data  complexology  sociology 
june 2010 by Vaguery
[0902.0878] Backbone of complex networks of corporations: The flow of control
"We present a methodology to extract the backbone of complex networks based on the weight and direction of links, as well as on nontopological properties of nodes. We show how the methodology can be applied in general to networks in which mass or energy is flowing along the links. In particular, the procedure enables us to address important questions in economics, namely, how control and wealth are structured and concentrated across national markets. We report on the first cross-country investigation of ownership networks, focusing on the stock markets of 48 countries around the world. On the one hand, our analysis confirms results expected on the basis of the literature on corporate control, namely, that in Anglo-Saxon countries control tends to be dispersed among numerous shareholders. On the other hand, it also reveals that in the same countries, control is found to be highly concentrated at the global level, namely, lying in the hands of very few important shareholders. …"
network-theory  economics  globalization  social-networks  corporatism  transparency  algorithms 
june 2010 by Vaguery
USPTO Bulk Downloads
"Google and the USPTO have entered into an agreement to make the following USPTO products available to the public at no charge:

Patents (grants, applications, assignments, classification information, and maintenance fee events)
Trademarks (grants, applications, assignments, and TTAB proceedings)

All data originated from the USPTO. Google is hosting this data unchanged, except for repackaging into zip files."
patents  intellectual-property  open-access  raw-data-now  government2.0  social-networks  law  datasets  nudge-targets  natural-language-processing  manfred-macx-approves 
june 2010 by Vaguery
[1005.5444] Eugene Garfield and Algorithmic Historiography: Co-Words, Co-Authors, and Journal Names
"Algorithmic historiography was proposed by Eugene Garfield in collaboration with Irving Sher in the 1960s, but further developed only recently into HistCite^{TM} with Alexander Pudovkin. As in history writing, HistCite^{TM} reconstructs by drawing intellectual lineages. In addition to cited references, however, documents can be attributed a multitude of other variables such as title words, keywords, journal names, author names, and even full texts. New developments in multidimensional scaling (MDS) enable us not only to visualize these patterns at each moment of time, but also to animate them over time. Using title words, co-authors, and journal names in Garfield's oeuvre, the method is demonstrated and further developed in this paper (and in the animation at this http URL). The variety and substantive content of the animation enables us to write, visualize, and animate the author's intellectual history."
social-networks  citation  history  quantitative-criticism  influence  academic-culture 
june 2010 by Vaguery
[1005.4376] Characterizing the community structure of complex networks
"Community structure is one of the key properties of complex networks and plays a crucial role in their topology and function. While an impressive amount of work has been done on the issue of community detection, very little attention has been so far devoted to the investigation of communities in real networks. We present a systematic empirical analysis of the statistical properties of communities in large information, communication, technological, biological, and social networks. We find that the mesoscopic organization of networks of the same category is remarkably similar. This is reflected in several characteristics of community structure, which can be used as ``fingerprints'' of specific network categories.…"
social-networks  network-theory  classification  empirical-economics  physics  sociology  complexology 
may 2010 by Vaguery
[1005.4006] Temporal Link Prediction using Matrix and Tensor Factorizations
"…Through several nu- merical experiments, we demonstrate that both matrix- and tensor-based techniques are effective for temporal link prediction despite the inherent difficulty of the problem. Additionally, we show that tensor-based techniques are particularly effective for temporal data with varying periodic patterns."
nudge-targets  prediction  social-networks  sociology  marketing  recommendations  linear-programming 
may 2010 by Vaguery
Mapping GitHub – a network of collaborative coders | FlowingData
"GitHub is a large community where coders can collaborate on software development projects. People check code in and out, make edits, etc. Franck Cuny maps this community (with Gephi), based on information in thousands of user profiles.
The above is a map colored and sorted by the main language of each person (PHP, Python, Perl, Javascript, or Ruby)."
GitHub  social-networks  community  software-development  visualization 
april 2010 by Vaguery
Stanford Large Network Data Sets
data  networks  network-theory  datasets  social-networks  Nudge 
march 2010 by Vaguery
A Time to Trade, A Time to Look -- Seeking Alpha
"It is at the three or four times in a 24 hour period that forex traders are well advised to switch tack and reverse near-term directional thinking. The European and NYMEX close are the U.S. based things to get under our belts, because then, maybe, the equity markets can reveal where they really want to go. Traders looking for moves outside of 06:00 and 11:00 EDT, and maybe 14:30 EDT may just find themselves sitting and waiting, wondering why they just bought the high of the day that then reversed.
As the global economy travels through the contraction phase of its business cycle the leaning is towards looking at S&P futures trade to confirm sentiment. The speculators are never too far away from the S&P in times of fear; either selling into the fear of loss, or buying into the fear of missing profits. That is the reason for so much near-term volatility, and that is how things will stay until signs of GDP expansion are seen globally."
finance  trading  complex-systems  dynamics  economics  models  social-networks 
march 2010 by Vaguery
Media Curation Is Now Consumer-Generated
"…each time you log a return visit to an establishment, you're registering a de-facto vote in favor of that good or service (an endorsement). Chances are you're not checking in at a restaurant that served you undercooked chicken last week. So establishments with the highest ratio of return visits by the same person are being collectively curated as well liked."
curation  publishing  social-networks  social-media  advertising  credentialing  marketing-as-dangerous-contagious-failure  crowdsourcing 
march 2010 by Vaguery
PeteSearch: How to split up the US
"Stretching from New York to Minnesota, this belt's defining feature is how near most people are to their friends, implying they don't move far. In most cases outside the largest cities, the most common connections are with immediately neighboring cities, and even New York only has one really long-range link in its top 10. Apart from Los Angeles, all of its strong ties are comparatively local."
social-networks  cultural-norms  sociology  American-cultural-assumptions  Facebook  geography  network-culture  visualization  GIS 
february 2010 by Vaguery
Seeing a Twitter #Hashtag Spread « Giladon-line
"Every user who participated in the meme is represented by a gray circle (Matt, whom first started the meme, is shown in yellow). Edges represents the person who most likely influenced the other to first participate."
visualization  meme  social-networks  social-dynamics  Twitter  social-media 
january 2010 by Vaguery
Contrary Brin: The betrayal of the smart sons
"It doesn’t have to be science, though that is where I found these refugees from the aristocracy, most often. It might also be the arts, or starting a new company from scratch, in a completely different field. Any way you look at it, this trend has to be viewed with admiration.

Alas, it may also be one of the principal reasons that American capitalism is going down the toilet. Because... who is left behind, minding the store? Oh. Yeah. I already answered that question. "
politics  cultural-norms  aristocracy  elitism  American-cultural-assumptions  Babbittism  survivorship-bias  testable-hypotheses  sociology  social-networks 
december 2009 by Vaguery
Email as a habitat: an exploration of embedded personal information management - PARC (Palo Alto Research Center)
"Email has become more like a habitat than an application. It is used for a wide range of tasks such as information management and for coordination and collaboration in organizations. Our research shows that email is the place in which a great deal of work is received and delegated and is a growing portal for access to online publications and information services. Indeed, users have been seen to co-opt email as a personal information management (PIM) tool. This follows from what we have found to be a common tendency of knowledge workers, which is to embed personal information management directly into their favorite workspaces. In this article, we explore further these new and unanticipated uses that are made of email, and suggest potential design ideas to support them better. We present the findings from four months of fieldwork conducted at three companies."
email  knowledge-management  social-norms  social-networks  worklife  communities-of-practice  communication-infrastructure  cyberinfrastructure 
december 2009 by Vaguery
Hustle and Flow: A Social Network Analysis of the American Federal Judiciary [Repost from 3/25] | Computational Legal Studies
"Scholars have long asserted that social structure is an important feature of a variety of societal institutions. As part of a larger effort to develop a fully integrated model of judicial decision making, we argue that social structure-operationalized as the professional and social connections between judicial actors-partially directs outcomes in the hierarchical federal judiciary. Since different social structures impose dissimilar consequences upon outputs, the precursor to evaluating the doctrinal consequences that a given social structure imposes is a descriptive effort to characterize its properties. Given the difficulty associated with obtaining appropriate data for federal judges, it is necessary to rely upon a proxy measure to paint a picture of the social landscape. In the aggregate, we believe the flow of law clerks reflects a reasonable proxy for social and professional linkages between jurists...."
law  court  social-networks  graph-theory  influence  culture  it's-people  the-law-as-community 
november 2009 by Vaguery
Global Guerrillas: BASIC SYSTEMS DISRUPTION
"System disruption leverages network structure and dynamics to turn small attacks into large events. Selection of the best point to attack is based on an analysis of the network's design and flows. The term to describe this point is: the systempunkt. Essentially, the systempunkt is the point in the network, that if attacked, will yield the maximal possible impact."
networks  social-networks  infrastructure  war  terrorism  military  disruption  defensive-networking  diversity-as-defense 
november 2009 by Vaguery
What CouchDB brings to HTML5 : Daytime Running Lights
"In a CouchDB-enabled web, data-flows don't have to be centralized, which means friends can communicate without going through a fixed domain. This makes the web more efficient. It also means I can make data available to my social network without relying on 3rd-party services."
CouchDB  HTML5  standard-setting-play  distributed-processing  openness  open-access  grid-computing  social-networks 
october 2009 by Vaguery
Seth's Blog: Creating sustainable competitive advantage
"The reason the internet is such a home to wow business models is that it's easier to create a network here than any other time in history."
business-culture  business-model-failure  branding  networks  social-networks  entrepreneurship  strategy 
october 2009 by Vaguery
http://arxiv.org/pdf/0910.3529v1
"This mystical belief in the magic of citation statis- tics can be found throughout the documentation for research assessment exercises, both national and in- stitutional. It can also be found in the work of those promoting the h-index and its variants."
academic-culture  citation  social-networks  statistics  misapplied-statistics 
october 2009 by Vaguery
iFoundry
"Made possible by an $8 million gift from the entrepreneurs for whom the program is named, the Rajendra and Neera Singh Program in Market and Social Systems Engineering, MKSE, will be the first course of study to fully integrate the disciplines needed in this emerging science. The intellectual core of the program will encompass network science, algorithmic game theory and other disciplines relevant to engineers and scientists as they consider human incentives and behavior in developing modern technological systems."
social-networks  social-engineering  academia  pedagogy  interesting 
october 2009 by Vaguery
Building Web Reputation Systems: The Blog: The Dollhouse Mafia, or "Don't Display Negative Karma"
"Even eBay, with the most well-known example of public negative karma, doesn't represent how untrustworthy an actual seller might be-it only gives buyers reasons to take specific actions to protect themselves. In general, avoid negative public karma. If you really want to know who the bad guys are, keep the score separate and restrict it to internal use by moderation staff."
reputation  social-engineering  economics  community  community-design  psychology  games  social-networks 
october 2009 by Vaguery
Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus
"The machine translates words of a text into patent drawings. Seven million patents — linked by over 22 million references — form the vocabulary. By using references to earlier patents, it is possible to find paths between arbitrary patents. They form a kind of subtext."
art  conceptual-art  social-networks  machine  makers  Markov-chain  illustration  nanohistory 
september 2009 by Vaguery
RSS never blocks you or goes down: why social networks need to be decentralized - O'Reilly Radar
"rssCloud is meant to carry more frequent traffic and more content than the original RSS and Atom. It maintains an XML format (making it relatively verbose for SMS, although Winer tries to separate out the rich, enhanced data). Perhaps because of the increased traffic it would cause, it's less decentralized than RSS, storing updates in Amazon S2."
peer-to-peer  community  infrastructure  rssCloud  centralization  protocols  p2p  collaboration  social-networks  via:timoreilly 
september 2009 by Vaguery
Rands In Repose: Your People
"When I’m talking about Your People, I am not thinking of your best friend. Sure, your best friend might be Your People, but I’m talking about a larger population who aren’t necessarily your friends and who isn’t your family. These are a strange lot of people you’ve discovered in a motley array of places because you were searching for them."
via:mitten  social-networks  community  self-definition  advice  networking 
september 2009 by Vaguery
YouTube - Shocking 1950's Commercial!
nanohistory  video  commercial  benchmarking  social-networks 
august 2009 by Vaguery
T N T — The Network Thinker: Fireside Chat with Ed & Valdis
"First of a series of chats on leading edge ideas in regional economic development with Ed Morrison and Valdis Krebs. "
social-networks  visualization  exploratory-data-analysis  planning  public-policy  economic-development  business-culture 
august 2009 by Vaguery
Thought Gadgets: What blood-powered cell phones mean for the future
"Advertisers face a barrier because in social media, human bonds do not require third-party sponsorships. There is no external content to sponsor. Data collectors, who now hope to turn Facebook's social streams into the Experian of the future, also may hit a wall when human connections can no longer be intercepted."
futurism  marketing  social-networks  social-media  technology  cyborgs  transhumanism-is-humanism-still 
july 2009 by Vaguery
http://agileroots2009.confreaks.com/videos/16-jun-2009-09-00-artisanal-retro-futurism-team-scale-anarcho-syndicalism-brian-marick-small.mp4
video  conferences  agility  agile-management  revolution  social-norms  social-networks  propaganda  history-is-a-feature-not-a-bug  kawgooshkawnick  not-an-employee 
july 2009 by Vaguery
iPhone 4G, Google Wave, Google Voice; Collaboration Transformed | iPhoneCTO
"I find it humorous to watch as IT organizations debate the merits of iPhone in the enterprise. CIOs and CTOs of major companies cite a plethora of reasons why iPhone isn’t ready for the enterprise; they bat these notions about like a piñata at a Cinco de Mayo celebration. But few of these uptight C-level naysayers seem concerned about hungry competitors and organizations with disruptive products and business philosophies who will adopt iPhone as if their future depends on it. In fact, for many, their future does depend on technological alchemies surrounding the iPhone as a mobile application platform."
disintermediation  collaboration  technology  iPgibw  iPhone  business-models  social-norms  social-networks  cultural-dynamics  project-driven-life 
july 2009 by Vaguery
Ze Frank at Webstock 09 on Vimeo
community  engagement  internet-culture  social-networks  experiments  no-matter-what-happens-it's-everything-personal 
june 2009 by Vaguery
NKill Blog: NKill in PC World
"One of NKill's objectives is to catalog every referenced public machine or network. Starting with all .com, .net, .org domains, www.DOMAIN, mail exchange records, nameservers, etc. and grab the version banners of the software they are running.

Nkill will be really useful for profiling a target during a security assessment because IP4 transforms are hard to perform without a database. Given an IP4 address, shitty sites like domaintools will tell you which virtual hosts are sharing the same address, that's it and they will charge you a fee for that information. They won't tell you which organisations (domains) are trusting this IP address for their mail, nameservers, etc.

With NKill, when a new vulnerability is discovered (e.g. IIS, postfix, apache, php...) we can instantly known which domains are vulnerable; you can pull that information for a whole country and we can also monitor how long it takes for people to react and patch their boxes."
security  search-engines  database  networks  social-networks  system-administration  malware  transparency 
june 2009 by Vaguery
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0902/0902.0878v1.pdf
via:spangledrongo  business-culture  social-networks  management  finance  politics  financial-crisis  nice-work-if-you-can-get-it 
june 2009 by Vaguery
Gene Expression: The geography of online social networks
"If Facebook were being used to talk anonymously to a bunch of strangers, as with the early AOL chatrooms, then the adoption of this technology wouldn't show such a strong geographical pattern -- who cares if no one else in your state uses a chatroom, as long as there are enough people in total? This shows how firmly grounded in people's real lives their use of Facebook is; otherwise it would not spread in a more or less person-to-person fashion from its founding location."
geography  social-networks  Facebook  data-analysis  networks 
may 2009 by Vaguery
The Other Panic of 1819
"... Moreover, in order to raise capital and extend their credit over the long, unpredictable term of [an item's] market life, they often endorsed or guaranteed each other's promissory notes, in this way creating elaborate networks of mutual dependence. As a result, when one firm became insolvent, it often took several others down with it. But to make things even worse, many [brokers of these items] estimated their net worth based on unsold (and devalued) inventory rather than on a more realistic accounting of their assets. This meant that, at any given time, it was difficult for a [broker of these items] to know either his own true financial position or that of the firms whose notes he'd endorsed. Thus, by 1819, with many thousands of worthless [items] circulating as inflated currency, the bankruptcy of a [broker of these items] was a frequent occurrence."
financial-crisis  books  bookselling  this-has-all-happened-before  nanohistory  history  cause-and-effect  social-networks  economics  gales-of-derisive-change 
april 2009 by Vaguery
Open Monologue » Unintended consequences
"A couple of good thoughts about those unintended consequences we create out here on the social side of the internet. I think that many of us are putting ourselves online in a very open and honest way because we want to connect to people. I’m surprised how many people I’ve connected with online who describe themselves as introverts. Having some tools that allow people to connect, including those who find it difficult to connect in their analog lives, is a tremendous social good."
social-norms  social-networks  social-dynamics  personality  enabling-technology  consequences 
april 2009 by Vaguery
@FredericBaud on short-lived money | Culturing
"Participants list what they need, and fill mutual needs. Each person maintains a “reputation” that is based on a “thank you” that is received from the person they have donated to. A tracking system monitors the “carrying capacity” of donations. “thank you” assignments to participants are monitored, and so too are receipts of donations. Optionally, each participant may also register their own satisfaction with the system as a whole.
Total satisfaction, plus a “thank you” (which is seen in the system as individual satisfaction with what is donated) compared against satisfactory receipt of donations (where you “thank” the other person, and thus add to their rating), and a certain base level of overall needs met, would then give feedback to each user, showing that they may need to donate more, or improve the quality of what they are giving to others, in order to maintain total “health” of the system. The system should also reward those who give to those with higher total reputations."
charity  philanthropy  nonprofit  community  support  economics  social-networks  altruism  balance  idea 
march 2009 by Vaguery
About Us | Polymeme
"Polymeme helps you navigate the new networked public sphere and keep your fingers on the intellectual pulse of the blogosphere.

Polymeme helps you discover intelligent content that lies beyond the usual echo chambers of tech news, celebrity gossip or American politics.

Our site uses a unique buzz-tracking approach to identify what's currently hot in 20 areas, ranging from economics to evolution, and present it to the reader along with all sources that are currently talking about it. Thus, you can track how ideas – or memes – propagate through this new emerging networked public sphere. We would consider our mission a success if we expose you to the maximum number of new ideas on every 100 news items you read!"
social-software  social-networks  marketing  madness-of-crowds  blogging  media  data-mining  trends  aggregation 
march 2009 by Vaguery
Network Weaving: Transformative Philanthropy Network - the parts
"In the next series of posts, I'll use examples to describe the 4 (maybe 5) sub-networks in a truly transformative philanthropy network. I'll offer a graphic that will show each part and then how they all fit together."
philanthropy  social-networks  social-engineering  nonprofit  business-plan 
february 2009 by Vaguery
Network Weaving: Providing support for learning/policy communities among "grantees"
"So again, the foundation can help the collaboratives process what is happening - in real time as they "rapid prototype" - and make sense of what is happening. Does what they are doing feel like its going in the right direction? What have they been surprised about? What did they notice? What do they need to learn about? Who can they learn that from? For this kind of learning to lead to breakthroughs, the foundation as network guardian will need to make sure the reflection process includes participants and observers as well as the organizational staff. "
philanthropy  social-networks  institutional-design  sustainability  social-engineering 
february 2009 by Vaguery
Web 2.0 Expo NY: Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure.
It's still fun when I hear important people saying stuff I said years ago, and having people listen to them ad think it's so cool and insightful. Really.
information-overload  filters  social-networks  community-formation  design  cultural-dynamics  disruption 
february 2009 by Vaguery
Worldchanging: Bright Green: Common Security Clubs: Finding Support in Hard Economic Times
"“What becomes clear to participants is we are facing some major economic and ecological changes,” said Andree Zaleska from the Boston office of Institute for Policy Studies, who is coordinating clubs in the Northeast. “We are not going back to some golden age of economic growth based on empire, unfettered capitalism, and cheap energy—nor do we want to! We have to prepare ourselves and our communities for transformation.”"
economics  localism  communitarianism  community  self-help  activism  social-networks  cultural-norms 
february 2009 by Vaguery
Network Weaving: Self-Organizing Kickoff
"In upcoming posts, we'll review some of the ways people are starting to organize online and look at the key design elements of self-organizing, whether online or off.

Jean pointed out that some of you are already experimenting, so please let us know what you are doing by responding to this post!"
social-networks  social-engineering  organizing  activism 
january 2009 by Vaguery
A Caring Collaborative - The New Old Age Blog - NYTimes.com
"I’m single. I’m childless. I cared for my mother at the end of her life and for a friend, years before, through 10 months of brain cancer. If, as the saying goes, everything that goes around comes around, someone will do the same for me.

But that’s magical thinking, not a sensible plan for the future. I’ll still have to ask a friend to take me home, or hire a car service, after my next colonoscopy. After almost a decade, I still shudder at the memory of my reconstructive wrist surgery, alone in a hospital where they mixed up my chart with someone else’s. Before the operation and after, I couldn’t even open a bottle."
community  collaboration  caregiving  healthcare  social-networks  innovation  service  aging 
january 2009 by Vaguery
AltSearchEngines » Blog Archive » How to Search for Influencers with Datanetis
Be braced:

"For someone that has been working building software for the marketing automation industry over 8 years now and is familiar with multiple solutions for finding the right prospect out of many, it was an eye opener. I’m evidencing the progression from mass email campaigns through marketing to target individuals with a matching/relevant offers (data mining, behavioral pattern, collaborate filtering, recommendation engines) to finding customers that can market for you - agents."
social-networks  marketing  influence  advertising  data-mining  networks  search-engines 
december 2008 by Vaguery
T N T — The Network Thinker: Influencer Targeting
"The value-added for Google is to place the electronic ad with the most influential person(s) in the network. Pharmaceutical firms have been doing social network analysis within physician networks since the mid-1960s. Big Pharma has always recruited the most influential doctors to suggest brand new drugs to other doctors in their social circle. And, companies like Visible Path have been selling social network discovery to clients for many years.

So, what makes this Google patent novel and non-obvious???"
patents  social-networks  Google  Bilski  old-reading  analytics  influence  attention 
december 2008 by Vaguery
the reclaiming of arbcamp
"I think it’s incredible work you’ve been doing lately, and I wholeheartedly endorse it" YAY!!!
via:mitten  amusing  tribalism  prejudice  Santayana-effect  local  social-networks  insular  a-group-is-its-own-worst-enemy 
november 2008 by Vaguery
making a scene: what silicon valley programmers have in common with punk rockers " orgtheory.net
va:tsuomela  social-networks  community  formation  activism  emergence  social-dynamics  localism  kawgooshkawnick 
october 2008 by Vaguery
The Cramer Crash? - Seeking Alpha
herd-following  behavioral-finance  mavens  influence  social-networks  market  crash  crisis  trading  investing 
october 2008 by Vaguery
naked capitalism: Mussolini-Style Corporatism in Action: Treasury Conference Call on Bailout Bill to Analysts (Updated)
"Various readers wrote us, and it was confirmed by a detailed report on the call at DealBreaker, that the Treasury Department held a conference call this evening for analysts on the bailout bill. A memo was evidently sent to SIFMA members; others may have been contacted by other means. But the report I got from one person who was on the call was the the questions came from financial services industry members. In other words, this was most assuredly not intended to be a call open to the public at large. If anyone from the media or other member of the great unwashed was listening in, it was by accident."
finance  Bushism  economics  politics  due-diligence  social-networks  public-policy 
september 2008 by Vaguery
Economist's View: Connectedness
"A key element here, though, is the connectedness of generations. Not everyone has children, for example, and Barro's mechanism works by putting the utility of children as an argument in the parents utility function. In the 1980s, in response to Barro's paper, I remember seeing a seminar given that attempted to estimate intergenerational connectedness. I can't remember exactly what the paper found after all these years, but the main point is that measures of connectedness exist. [In answer to the question, are bonds net wealth?, many people who have examined the empirical work take an intermediate position and use 50% as a rule of thumb, i.e. that 50% of bonds are net wealth, the other 50% is offset through anticipated tax liabilities)."
public-policy  social-networks  cultural-norms  economics  planning  long-range-effects  generational-effects  inheritance  cohort-effects  models 
september 2008 by Vaguery
The Ann Arbor Chronicle » Meeting Watch: UM Regents (18 Sept 2008)
"They gave President Mary Sue Coleman a 4 percent raise, bringing her salary to roughly $553,500, effective Aug. 1, 2008. They said she’s doing a great job. She said thanks. Everyone clapped."
local  Ann-Arbor  University-of-Michigan  regents  news  meeting  social-norms  social-networks  transparency 
september 2008 by Vaguery
‘Alaska Women Reject Palin’ Rally is HUGE! « Mudflats
politics  Bushism  protest  election  activism  video  women  social-capital  social-networks  MSM 
september 2008 by Vaguery
Network Weaving: Weaving the Electric Grid
Thinking about the network of publishing and print media distribution, as well.
networks  social-networks  physics  power  sustainability  distribution 
august 2008 by Vaguery
indexed: This is what 2.0 means.
web2.0  social-networks  summary  cartoon  visualization  metaphor 
august 2008 by Vaguery
Thingology (LibraryThing's ideas blog): Future of Cataloging
crowdsourcing  catalog  cataloging  library2.0  LibraryThing  tagging  social-networks  classification 
july 2008 by Vaguery
SSRN-The Wiki and the Blog: Toward a Complex Adaptive Intelligence Community by D. Andrus
intelligence-gathering  coordination  community  article  government  intelligence  social-networks  crowdsourcing 
june 2008 by Vaguery
Vacuum - Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104: beer, barbeque, urban alienation and intranets
community  collaboration  networking  discovery  social-norms  sociology  social-networks 
june 2008 by Vaguery
/Message: Overload, Schmoverload: The Myth Of Personal Productivity
"The old school thinking is about individual productivity: but the social revolution has moved past that into network productivity, which entails connectedness and social meaning. The personal hit on productivity is real, but it's not a cost: it's an inve
productivity  Taylorism  worklife  attention  social-networks 
june 2008 by Vaguery
/Message: Fred Wilson on Leaving The Instigator Out: Small Worlds v Big World
"I maintain that small world ethics will trump big world ethics everytime."
blogging  social-norms  social-networks  web2.0  etiquette  credentials  social-capital  community 
may 2008 by Vaguery
Roger Ebert's Journal: Fanzines beget blogs
blogging  fanzines  fans  social-networks  nanohistory  social-publishing 
may 2008 by Vaguery
Vacuum - Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104: What do you wish you were doing?
hacks  Twitter  community  visualization  Firefox  browser  social-networks  modification  amusing  correct 
march 2008 by Vaguery
The Point
collaboration  activism  campaign  charity  community  competition  crowdsourcing  donation  experiment  finance  fundraising  innovation  marketplace  progressive  philanthropy  networks  social-networks 
march 2008 by Vaguery
How to Save the World
via:tsuomela  networks  collaboration  social-norms  social-networks  social-engineering  cultural-norms  openness  worklife 
march 2008 by Vaguery
academhack » Blog Archive » Twitter for Academia
twitter  blogging  community  social-norms  social-networks  cultural-norms  tools  examples  academic 
february 2008 by Vaguery
My Space vs Atheism? (Johnny Logic)
atheism  MySpace  religion  community  commons  social-norms  cultural-norms  social-networks 
february 2008 by Vaguery
Wondermark by David Malki ! - 368: Facebook, Distilled.
Bears. Hats.
via:logista  Wondermark  Facebook  advertising  marketing  social-networks  satire  amusing 
january 2008 by Vaguery
SocialAction
Somebody should do a Distributed Proofreaders social network visualization
social-networks  analytics  graph  networks  research  visualization  statistics 
december 2007 by Vaguery
Official Google Blog: Encouraging people to contribute knowledge
Redisintermediating the collective since 2008 or so.
wikipedia  Google  collaboration  collective  expertise  credit  social-networks  reputation  authority 
december 2007 by Vaguery
JCMC Vol 13 Issue 1
social-norms  social-networks  sociology  academia  journals  community  scholarship  academic  open-a 
november 2007 by Vaguery
Mathemagenic: learning and KM insights - 14 November 2007
"Information overload exists, but mainly inside our heads."
collaboration  academia  blogging  social-norms  cultural-norms  networking  community  social-networks  writing 
november 2007 by Vaguery
FundCamp | Sun shines on seed accelerators
We will be having a FundCamp here, soon. Or so I predict.
funding  entrepreneurs  social-networks  open-space  collaboration  community  business-culture  local  development 
november 2007 by Vaguery
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