Here’s an interesting question. Let’s say you use an instant messanger at least once-a-month. How far are you removed from any other person who sent an IM across the network that month?
Leskovec and Horvitz, two researchers at Microsoft, conducted a planetary-wide study of MSN Messenger traffic for a single month (over 180 million users). They [...]
Archive for August 8th, 2008
Swapping IMs in Milgram’s Ever-Shrinking Small World
Written by: Bill Sherman on Friday, 8 August 2008, 3:07 PM
Social Networks and Software Code
Written by: Bill Sherman on Friday, 8 August 2008, 6:17 AM
This week, I’ve three different ways of looking at social networks–are they like fisheries, software, or muscles.
For the moment, I’d like you to forget about digital social network tools like LinkedIn, Facebook, MyYearbook, FriendFeed, etc. That’s not what I’m talking about. Today, we’re discussing the actual social network itself and not the digital tool. What [...]
2010/03/27: What Senior Leaders Want to Know about Social Learning
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2010/03/17: Followers or Friends?
by Bill Sherman
2010/03/13: Bi-Directional Collaboration
by Bill Sherman
2010/03/10: The Social LMS
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Planned Books
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Social Capital: A Multifaceted Perspective by Unknown |
Current Books
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Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Ins by Elinor Ostrom |
Recent Books
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Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive by Noah J. Goldstein |
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Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition by Ronald Burt |
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Strategy and the Fat Smoker; Doing What’s Obvious But Not Easy by David H Maister |
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The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures by Dan Roam |
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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim |