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is Mark Granovetter’s ‘Strength of Weak Ties’ argument in 1973, revisited in 1983. Essentially, weak ties are those ties ‘outside’ the core connections that any one actor has. Granovetter uses the example of acquaintances and friends, where the former are more structurally crucial to a network than the latter. In other words, if you operate solely within your group of ‘close-knit’ friends, then there is little or no expansion of that network and hence the proliferation of linear thought; a process known as homophily. Heterophily then is when networks are predicated on difference, or by exploration of ‘weaker’ ties to any given individual – a phenomenon which discourages linearity, and embraces rhizomatic thinking.

Wer sich online vernetzt, hat auch im echten Leben mehr Sozialkontakte“

Virtuelle Freunde aber könnten keine echten menschlichen Kontakte ersetzen – so mahnen immer wieder vor allem jene, die in den Netzwerken gar nicht dabei sind.

Soziale Kommunikation und Interaktion, aber auch soziales Engagement sind generell im Aufwind, nicht auf dem Rückzug

We need to demystify the complexity of learning in some areas and make it accessible to everybody by presenting it in different shapes and colors, in different terms and formats so that people in all level take advantage in developing their learning

The lady of wisdom has so much unwritten knowledge and experience that it could fill a library when ‘unveiled’ Same thing will happen for “Unwritten Knowledge when it become Written”.

Interactions with one’s artifact increase intrinsic motivation and create connection between people and knowledge.

I have introduced in the Plearn blog the principle of ELIS Wheel : Explore, Learn, Interact and Socialize in the learning process. We need to create something and share it with others in the cloud and we need to interact to enhance intrinsic and extrinsic motivations in the crowd’s spirit.

I must admit that I struggled with some of the basic concepts when I first read Siemens’ paper, and I found the lack of practical examples frustrating.