People ask a lot about structural holes. Here is professor Burt’s paper linked below. The concept changed...
Monthly Archives: August 2013
Social Network Websites
Most Social Network Websites will fail. Some attempt to call themselves social network services (SNS). They’re not. ...
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Frontier Foundation Save the date and join us for this year’s Electronic Frontier...
Narcissus Loves Facebook
Often the narcissism of social technology can be a great nuisance. The everyday minutiae of individual daily...
Managerialism
Managerialism is the belief and practice that organizations have more similarities than differences. Managerialism holds the performance...
Collective Intelligence 2014
Collective Intelligence 2014 Collective Intelligence 2014 is an interdisciplinary conference seeks to bring together researchers from a variety of...
Enterprise Educrats
It is a relief that enterprise educrats are finally realizing and accepting that learning is socially mediated....
Hastily Formed Networks
http://www.nps.edu/ Monterey, California USA As network science, social networks and network analysis expand rapidly and become the...
Mr. Simplicity
The Courage Within Us by Mr. Simplicity aka Bill Jensen is recommended by your Colabria Action Research...
The Weakness of Strong Ties
We all know about The Strength of Weak Ties. What’s also very important is The Weakness of...
The Use of Knowledge in Society
Friedrich August Hayek is positively central to 21st Century knowledge management (KM). It is puzzling why the moldering KM...
Visual Insight Chat
Visual Insight Tweet Chat: “Language of Imagination” We would be honored and delighted if you would join...
UnManagement
Colabria supports and recommends UnManagement by Charles (Kalev) Ehin. Dr. Ehin coined the term “UnManagement” in 1995....
Technology Zombies
In an excellent 2004 essay titled, “Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die,” author Eric Scigliano makes observations...
The Production and Distribution of Knowledge
It is often amusing to hear knowledge management (KM) speakers, consultants and so-called thought leaders give their...
Visual Complexity
http://www.visualcomplexity.com Colabria Action Research sponsors and recommends VisualComplexity.com. Colabria also recommends, “Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information”...
KM Sins
Kudos to Dave Snowden for revisiting 1998’s KM Sins. It recalls the famous “Teenage Sex” CIO Quote...
KM Evolution by Nancy Dixon
KM Evolution by Nancy Dixon Common Knowledge Associates Since the term “knowledge management” came into...
Centers for Network Research
Centers for Network Research are aiding the transformation from a function and process model to the...
Business SNA
The Business SNA (social network analysis) list started by Roberto Dandi now has over 100 entries. It is...