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**Welcome.**
This wiki assembles resources researched and created by Jenny Ambrozek and Victoria Axelrod related to our presentations and workshop explaining how understanding and operating organizations as networks is critical for sustaining a 21st Century Organization. Please visit [|our blog]for current thinking or join us on Twitter as [|SageNet]and [|VAxelrod.] Pointers to new approaches and research we've missed are welcomed. JA & VA.

**2013 Resources**

 * [|Business SNA List]** started by Roberto Dand in a Google Site is now crowd curated. It lists over a 100 SNA tools and practitioners.

"Many of the targeted drone strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen, for example, relied on social network analysis that included cell phone call data in combination with human intelligence." Daniel B. Prieto Source: wwww.foreignpolicy.com via Valdis Krebs SOCNET SNA and Drone Strikes posting 2013-08-13
 * The Classifieds . [|Are American spies the next victims of the Internet age]?**

=Resources for Thomas Falconer's NYU Advanced Seminar Social Media Management Class March 27, 2013= It was a pleasure spending time with you. Please explore this wiki general to discover network thinking and analytics. Here are some additional resources mentioned in our talk:

Her [|Social Network Analysis course] offered at Coursera. See a [|sample lecture on YouTube] Adamic teaches network analysis tool [|Geph]i. Also look at [|NodeXL] as a tool for social media network analysis.
 * Lada Adamic's work at the[| University of Michigan] and as a visiting fellow at Facebook**. Find Adamic on Twitter at [|@adamic]


 * Cameron Marlow** Head Data Scientist at Facebook http://cameronmarlow.com/


 * Lars Backstrom,** Data Scientist at Faceboook, [|Anatomy of Facebook] Scan some of his [|publications] to see the kind of social network research that will impact your work as social media managers.


 * James Governor's** @monkchips post on [|Critical Mass: Bringing Physics to Social Network Pablum]


 * Nicholas Christakis** TED Talk [|How social networks predict epidemics]

=Resources for Enterprise 2.0 Summit Paris talk [|Social Group Analytics] March 21, 2013=

Social Network Analysis History and Basics
Jacob Moreno Sociograms Browse references to sociograms in "The Essential Moreno" [|available at Google Books] Leonard Euhler, graph theory foundations http://www.amt.edu.au/euler.html

Organizational Network Analysis Developments- Short List
David Krackhardt 1993 [| Informal Networks: The Company Behind the Chart] Harvard Business Review

Bernardo Huberman & Lada Adamic 2004 [|Information Dynamics in a Networked World] HP Labs Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg Add German Flickr study

Patti Anklam, Rob Cross & Vic Gulas, 2005, [|Expanding the Field Vision]

Rob Cross, Peter Gray, Shirley Cunningham, Mark Showers & Robert J. Thomas//,// 2010 [|The Collaborative Organization: How to Make Employee Networks Really][|Work] MIT Sloan Review October 1

Sinan Aral, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, 2011 [|The Diversity-Bandwidth Tradeoff] American Journal of Sociology

Personal Network Development to Grow Social Capital
Ron Burt & Don Ronchi, 2006 [|Teaching Executives to See Social Capita]//[|l]//

Big Network Data Analysis
Facebook Research Team- [|Eytan Bashky]Research on influencers, information diffusion, influence and content. See for example [|Rethinking Information Diversity in Networks]

Books
David Easley and Jon Kleinberg, 2010 [|Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World] Rob Cross & Robert J. Thomas, 2009, [|Driving Results through Social Networks] Ranjay Gulati, 2007,[| Managing Network Resources] Yochai Benkler, 2006 [|Wealth of Networks], Rob Cross & Andrew Parker, 2004, [|Hidden Power of Social Networks] Duncan Watts, 2004, Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age 2 Ron Burt,1992, [|Structural Holes]

Network Analysis Tools
//**NodeXL**// Marc Smith and colleagues http://nodexl.codeplex.com/ //**Inflow** from Valids Krebs **[|www.orgnet.com]** // **Ucinet** from Steve Borgatti http://www.analytictech.com/ucinet/
 * Gephi** Open Source Network & Systems Visualization & & exploration [|platform] https://gephi.org/


 * Note:**[| Wolfram Research] added social networks analytics to their[| Mathematica]platform

Academic Researchers and Social Network Analysis Courses
**Steve Borgatti, PhD** [|International Center for Research on Social Networks and Businesss] [|Links Center] - University of Kentucky, Lexington Kentucky Both Victoria and Jenny have taken the one week summer workshop on SNA and can attest to the caliber of the material and the participants. This is a rigorous program at a great price AND come prepared to work.

Teaches [|"Strategic Business Leadership: Driving Results through Social Capital"]as part of the Booth School executive development programs Here are the Winter 2011 syllabus and main slide decks for the Chicago Booth Executive MBA course, "Strategic Leadership" and its full-time equivalent, "Network Structures of Effective Management:" http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/ronald.burt/research/
 * Ron Burt, PhD University of Chicago **

Join his list for the latest research papers on networks and social capital here nep-soc@lists.repec.org
 * Fabio Sabitini, PhD** world class economist and organizer of [|Social Capital Gateway]


 * F. Other Items of Interest**

Joseph Cloonan 2007 [|Supply Chain Team Relationship Management Guidelines for the Knowledge Enabled Engineer]r.


 * To learn more about //Executive Networks// who kindly hosted this webinar, please go to http://executivenetworks.com/**

Mapping Industry Networks
**a. Optimice Australia analysis including:**

__[|__Global IT Industry Map__]__ __[|__Global Media Industry 2006__]__ [|__Insurance Industry IT Contractual Alliances 1996-2005__] [|__Health Industry IT Contractual Alliances 1996-2005__] [|__Corporate Interlocks - Australian Stock Market - 2006__]

b. **FAS Research-** An array of network analysis applications http://www.fas.at/caseshttp:www.fas.at/cases

//Victoria Axelrod and Jenny Ambrozek welcome participants in our KMWorld [|Open Networks for Co-Generating Knowledge Workshop] **(** 2008-09-23). Thanks for participating and contributing to a rich conversation.//

//As promised here are links to records from the event as well as related resources that underpin the approach.//

//Please don't hesitate to contact us with questions or reflections on the workshop and how you take the ideas forward in your organizations.//

//Discussion starting slides from Enterprise 2.0 Open June 10 are [|on Slideshare].//

WELCOME
Thank you for visiting this wiki devoted to gathering resources that help us understand how networked organizations work. Our premise is organizations today reflect the relationship networks enabled by computer networks on which they increasingly operate.Organizational design choices are expanded by understanding and influencing social networks (how the work gets done). Promoting organizational, group and individual skill development around collaboration and effectve personal networking positively impacts productivity.

PLEASE CONTRIBUTE
//This// is an open wiki. Please add information to enrich this shared space. Just hit the "edit button" and an editing window opens. Try it. If you have any questions or thoughts to offer privately please email Jenny Ambrozek, the wiki starter, at "jenny at sageway dot com".A good wiki practice is adding your name to the contributor list below to indicate your participation. Our goal is building a collection of resources to aid thinking about organizational and personal networks, and design for productive and healthy places for people to contribute and learn.//To join an ongoing conversation about evolving "21st Century Organizations" please visit our [|blog].//

Materials are posted here to promote discussion and move forward thinking and the practice of organizations as networks. Your contacting us regarding any interest in reusing our materials in advance of doing so is appreciated. Please contact: Jenny@sageway.com or vaxelrod@axelrodbecker.com.

Jenny Ambrozek//

Resources
Organizations as Networks

Organizational Network Analysis

Collective/Connected Intelligence

Participatory Media

Technology

Empower Network

Thought Leaders to Watch

Related Disciplines

Examples: Organizations Leveraging Networks

**Contributors**
[|Jenny Ambrozek] [|My del.icio.us tags] [|Victoria G. Axelrod] [|My del.icio.us.tags]