SNA for lost knowledge

Rob Cross has a piece at Visible Path on Knowledge Loss in Organizations that suggests the use of social network analysis to assist in the growing question of what to do as people leave jobs for retirement or simply in high-turnover industries.

Living SNA bibliography by Jonathon Cummings

Bruce Hoppe points to Living SNA bibliography by Jonathon Cummings, which is another nice bibliography of SNA practitioners.  This kind of effort is why we at MeshForum decided to take down our "experts" section which was becoming difficult to maintain.  (It also made it sound like those people were attending the conference, which had the potential for misleading people.)

Jonathon Cummings, professor of management at Duke University, has assembled a nice academic bibliography on social network analysis, which includes a form at the bottom so that anyone can add new entries. He also maintains a comprehensive list of network visualization software.

Another SNA primer

Andrew Rixon of Anecdote gives us A quick primer on Social Network Analysis

Given that I’m right in the middle of a social network analysis, I thought I’d throw together a very quick, very brief primer on Social Network Analysis.

What is Social Network Analysis? A social network is a map of the relationships between individuals, the analysis involves a study of these relationships.

How do you do a Social Network Analysis?

And presents five steps to the analysis.  I like his emphasis on working with the decision makers on the analysis, rather than simply writing up a report.