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A recent MIT study found that in one organization the employees with the most extensive personal digital networks were 7% more productive than their colleagues - so Wikis and Web 2.0 tools may indeed improve productivity. In the same organization, however, the employees with the most cohesive face-to-face networks were 30% more productive.

Businesses are learning that social networking, used properly, can be an effective business tool. Having your employees involved in the community can enhance the company's reputation and bring in more business - so long as it's done right. Thus many large firms, especially in the technology industry, are actually encouraging their employees to blog, tweet, and participate in forums and social sites on company time.\n\nEven so, you still need to exert some control over how these sites are used. You can't just give employees free rein and hope they'll all exercise common sense. And you can't, in all fairness, blame them for violating rules that don't officially exist. You need a social networking policy that explicitly lays out what is and isn't permissible, both on the company's network and outside of it if they're presenting themselves as representatives of the company.

Businesses are learning that social networking, used properly, can be an effective business tool. Having your employees involved in the community can enhance the company's reputation and bring in more business - so long as it's done right. Thus many large firms, especially in the technology industry, are actually encouraging their employees to blog, tweet, and participate in forums and social sites on company time. Even so, you still need to exert some control over how these sites are used. You can't just give employees free rein and hope they'll all exercise common sense. And you can't, in all fairness, blame them for violating rules that don't officially exist. You need a social networking policy that explicitly lays out what is and isn't permissible, both on the company's network and outside of it if they're presenting themselves as representatives of the company.

"Value Networks and the true nature of collaboration meets this challenge head on with a systemic, human-network approach to managing business operations and ecosystems. Value network modeling and analytics provide better support for collaborative, emergent work and complex activities."

Interesting discussion on the difference between Social Networks (Facebook, Twitter) and Collaboration Networks (Wiki, Enterprise Social Software)

In the parlance of social network analysis, density is the percentage of people in your network connected to each other that could be. By increasing density, new things spread more quickly through it.

"A striking aspect of the Steve Borgatti network analysis workshop at University of Kentucky was how his talk relied heavily on early network analysis, especially that done with Rob Cross at IBM's Institute for Knowledge Based Organizations where Andrew Parker also worked. Their research inside Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and with BCG clients at the turn of the century, was central to his presentation"

"Discussion led by Michael Mol of proposed KIN Innovation SIG framework. This should be used in conjunction with Michael's slides available at http://members.ki-network.org/innovation/SIG%20Document%20Library/Forms/DispForm.aspx?ID=18&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fmembers.ki-network.org%2Finnovation%2FSIG%2520Document%2520Library%2FForms%2FAllItems.aspx&RootFolder=%2Finnovation%2FSIG%20Document%20Library"

innovation is combination. The story of another KIN network in education.

New behavioural norms and constructs for successful organisational networks

" Innovation Culture - MIT Sloane talk by the charismatic CEO, Terri Kelly. The top things I took from this inspiring talk are: - Staff turnover only 5% (the new hire process is lengthy and rigorous to ensure cultural fit) - CEO is elected by staff (CEO is one of the few job titles in the organisation - Costs are regarded as 'investments' - Every individual has a sponsor or coach - Leaders get there through others wanting to follow, not their power - Innovation culture is the MAIN driver of business results - Business units are no larger than 250 people (the founder talked about divide to multiply) - 'Give them the right tools, minimal bureaucracy, responsibility for P&L, expect people to lattice (network), organise around small teams'. Lastly, the culture at Gore has evloved of 50 years - it takes huge effort (equal to strategy and business development) and a lot of time to change culture I screen grabbed some of the culture survey questions that staff fill out about their leaders (not the other way round) http://members.ki-network.org/innovation/Innovation%20SIG%20Picture%20Library/Forms/DispForm.aspx?ID=1"

"Take a look at this site - the group leading the "Social Network Analysis: On-line Roles, Community & Network Weaving". Jenny Ambrozec is leading this study and will reveal the results of their findings at the KIN event"

This is a blog sponsored by Intuit to promote their Quickbase product and yes I am a contributor. However the blog has a diverse array of contributors tackling the topic "The Future of Work" from many angles. The blogging team includes Bill Ives who you may know as a blogger from his Portals and KM blog and also Patti Anklam who also posts to her home blog "Networks, Complexity, and Relatedness" Patti is a serious social network analyst having worked with Rob Cross at IBM's IKO in the late 90's.

The aim of this project is to enable organizations to improve the performance and business impact of their networks and communities by providing feedback and benchmarking against other firms and sectors.

To work like a network means more than knowing who people are or what they are doing. It means being able to leverage relationships to get work done and build relationships through shared work.

" Rob Cross, KIN Associate for the Social Network Analysis SIG is co-author of this presentation. It is relevant for organisations who are considering the transition elements of knowledge retentio"

"This website provides a host of resources relating to SNA, many of which available to non members. The Network Roundtable is run by Rob Cross at the University of Virginia."

"This recent study shows some differences between the most used social networking sites including Face-book, Linked-in, My Space etc."

"This recent study shows some differences between the most used social networking sites including Face-book, Linked-in, My Space etc."