Social Network Analysis People Patty Anklam Steve Borgatti Shawn Callahan Rob Cross Alistair Gibbons Bruce Hoppe Valdis Krebs Steffen Mazanek smiley-good Jacob Moreno Andrew Parker Karen Stephenson Many, many more Resources Books Robert Hanneman, Mark Riddle: Introduction to social network methods Albert-László Barabási: Linked Rob Cross, Andrew Parker: The Hidden Power of Social Networks Communities International Network for Social Network Analysis YAHOO! ONA-prac Weblinks Wikipedia Many, many more Practice

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Interventions cross-discipline projects job shadowing communities of practice 'skunkworks' mentor/apprentice schemes self-descriptive awareness 'grandfathering' knowledge fairs knowledge 'speed-dating' Organizational Network Analysis Theory Relations Attributes Intensity Kind Source Sink Nodes Position in network Boundary spanner

Boundary spanners are connected to different clusters, they are probably even the single point of contact

Peripheral Player Central Players Degree

Number of ties to others

Closeness

Distance of a give node to all other nodes

Betweenness

How many shortest pathes pass this node?

Eigenvector Centrality

Links from central nodes are more important and weighted higher

Ethics thumb-up no innocence no harm Data collection automatically from email flash

violation of data protection and privacy?
filtering relevant data nearly impossible

collaboration in projects survey thumb-up easy to complete strive for a particular goal narrative capture/analysis

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Tools Network visualization/analysis netdraw thumb-up netminer inflow pajek Data collection network.mdb thumb-up Excel Web survey Many, many more