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Bob Bater | August 23, 2002 7:47 PM

I am a consultant in knowledge organization in the UK. I've realized the relevance of SNA for some time, but only just got around to researching the topic. Of the dozens of sites I've visited regarding Social Network Analysis, yours has provided by far the best insight.
Thanks!
Bob

ML | August 30, 2002 6:37 PM

I'm curious to learn more about how SNA could be implemented from the IA standpoint. I'm looking at LDAP being one mechanism for handling people information as well as object information and then linking the two(to actually do the SNA part). Know of anyone who is doing this or plans to do it?

Peter Morville | September 29, 2002 7:26 PM

I'm not sure who's forging ahead in applying these ideas; you're on the bleeding edge; might be worth posting a question on sig-ia and/or asking Valdis Krebs (valdis@orgnet.com).

ben HyDe(Sign) | December 6, 2002 12:14 PM

Peter

You should also check out the smg group at MIT mediaLab.
http://smg.media.mit.edu/ Some of the recent thesi (sp?) are very interesting.

Also, Matt[IC] has been writing about such things with his usual interesting slant... http://interconnected.org/home

I have added a couple of links to my blog http://hydesign.blogspot.com recently about this subject. And some made it here:
http://www.iawiki.net/wiki.pl?SocialInformatics

Susan Fox | December 22, 2002 9:31 PM

As an association executive I believe social network analysis is critical to the future success of associations, in particular professional associations. I, too, am searching for a way to apply this idea to my work. I'm confident there is a breakthrough waiting to happen here, especially after reading Barabasi's "Linked."

Peter Morville | December 24, 2002 11:49 AM

If you're interested in social network analysis, check out Ryze at http://www.ryze.com/

Lots of SNA pioneers such as Valdis Krebs and Ed Vielmetti are hanging out here.

You can find me at http://www.ryze.com/view.php?who=PeterMorville

IVANCIR | February 13, 2003 12:52 PM

I have been studying network and I would like to know more about how can I see a organization
as a open system and social networK?
thanks
Ivancir

Luccy | February 19, 2003 3:56 AM

Hi
I just want to know the information about Network Analysis. Since I 'am now studying it and I want to know more. Can you pls sent me the URL which explain it in detail you can sent it to my E-mail thank's.

Aby | February 19, 2003 6:35 PM

I think this is a very interesting article. I feel that highlighting the effect of SNA is also very critical. I have read many other SNA articles which are excellent on the technical frontier but talks very little about the implementation and ROI. I think this articles give a very good picture of where SNA could be applied. Good job!

aby

Valdemar Johnson | February 20, 2003 8:28 PM

Very interesting article.

I have followed Peter's musings from the days of ACIA and thoroughly enjoyed the polar bear book.

I have somewhat mixed feelings about "mere" web designers capturing the moniker of "Information Architects" because I see it as a much broader calling to improve the usability and utility of information systems in general, not just web sites of web enabled applications.

Bill French | March 28, 2003 8:43 AM

Recently we deployed a new capability in our knowledge-blogging tool (MySmartChannels) that encourages authors to invite new users without friction, but we noticed something unusual about the use case - a natural capability to understand who weblog authors are inviting to view their secure weblogs, and who is accepting and reading weblogs.

This is our first step in the direction of using knowledge weblogs as the basis for better understanding social computing and influence mapping - truly an exciting space.

The URL

http://myst-technology.com/mysmartchannels/public/item/3651

provides additional architectural details about how we achieved this.

bf

Dan Haught | June 10, 2003 10:50 AM

I have been working on a project to apply SNA principles to track, quantify and visualize terrorist networks, such as al Qaeda. You can see more at http://www.trackingthethreat.com.

Perry Dyball | July 3, 2003 7:48 AM

CakeHouse Systems have developed a network storage and visualisation/analysis product called antology.

antology has been used in many business sectors including e-commerce web sites, data integration, criminal and investigative analysis, knowledge management and social network analysis. antology can be used to represent any networked business data model and its highly intuitive query and exploration facilities make it easy to construct visual representations of your data where link analysis is required.

For further details and to download evaluations go to http://www.cakehouse.co.uk

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