via the syllabus finder

This on-line textbook introduces many of the basics of formal approaches to the analysis of social networks. The text relies heavily on the work of Freeman, Borgatti, and Everett (the authors of the UCINET software package). The materials here, and their organization, were also very strongly influenced by the text of Wasserman and Faust, and by a graduate seminar conducted by Professor Phillip Bonacich at UCLA. Many other users have also made very helpful comments and suggestions based on the first version. Errors and omissions, of course, are the responsibility of the authors.

visualization of book relationships

Research interests: Social, economic and technological change, particularly in mature industrial economies; historical social network analysis.

Increase in Size of Network , Increase in internal network connectivity , Increase in connections to valuable third parties , Increase in projects formed with all of the above

crunches through pubmed to find the expertise; compare, for a moment, with social search.

For example, sharing a single class had roughly the same effect on developing a new relationship as sharing a single mutual friend. Curiously, additional mutual friends counted for more than additional shared classes. And shared activities and friends cou

via Shannon Clark

cash flow positive as a result of monetizing the recruiter/headhunter roles. not as cool as myspace and not as valuable. commenters suggest that many users never touch the site and can't unsubscribe easily.

bridging ties = access, profit; bonding ties = trust, community. pick your networks carefully.

the analysis of delicious here isn't quite right - the objects in the system are not just URLs but also tags. flickr likewise has several axes of connectability.

from harvard

lada adamic teaching pajek to her students. (hint: try graphviz too, analytics are not good but it makes pretty graphs fast - or omnigraffle)

high res scan of mark lombardi drawing

tonight

what the astrodome needs is bare bones social network software to have people find each other through friends

from dan cooney

Valdis Krebs now speaking at Meshforum

arguing for bipartite networks - people linked to each other through objects

dogster is another one

the value to bridging structural holes does not extend to those a step away from the bridge

an example of a Rob Cross SNA deconstruction of a network of senior managers

lead by Dragomir Radev

social networking services are not revolutionary

looking for people in networks who are "energizers"

Rob Cross papers

an account of lunch at the Red Hawk

includes Spoke architecture white paper

a book review

from Semantic Studios, an account of Peter's introduction to SNA

he says this a few times: "people have to die". which is a funny way to value the human relationship

review of Sunbelt conference

sna blog from bruce hoppe

network diagrams as political art

Janine Wedel, associate professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University, is writing a book tentatively titled "Chameleons in Command: Shadow Power in an Ambiguous World."