efios     Efios home Weblog     The efios blog: "It's all about people and networks"       23 July 2003 It's Not What You Know, It's Who You Know: Work in the Information Age "It's Not What You Know, It's Who You Know: Work in the Information Age" is a paper by Bonnie Nardi, Steve Whittaker and Heinrich Schwarz (circa 2000). We discuss our ethnographic research on personal social networks in the workplace, arguing that traditional institutional resources are being replaced by resources that workers mine from their own networks. Social networks are key sources of labor and information in a rapidly transforming economy characterized by less institutional stability and fewer reliable corporate resources. The personal social network is fast becoming the only sensible alternative to the traditional "org chart" for many everyday transactions in today's economy. This is a great paper by very respectable researchers, revealing some of the reasons that there is such motivation to empower individual's use of their social network. NB : It also has an extensive list of references at the bottom of the paper. From: zephoria weblog entry here This happened at 12:01:10 PM  Ideas and comments to this [] or trackback [] Becoming a member of this community requires a learning agenda In CP Square, the coordinator community practice group is being relaunched ("v2") and will focuse much more around creation of a group around debate than gathering and making assets and a learning agenda. George Pór proposes a good idea for the community: why does not everybody that wants to become a participant in this community bring an item to the learning agenda? That way, the community way the community can establish the learning agenda based on the needs of the participants, foster discussion (around perhaps online fishbowls) and spark energy between the members. This happened at 8:16:34 AM  Ideas and comments to this [] or trackback [] © Copyright 2005 Erik van Bekkum. July 2003 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat     1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31     Jun   Aug Blog categories: (All) Innovation Social Networks Blogging Knowledge Garden: Communities Social Networks Blogroll: Daily reads Blog of CI Patti Anklam Andy Boyd Georg Siemens Lilia Efimova Debby at Pepperdine Renee Hopkins Dave Pollard on BI Ton Zijlstra (Engish) Ton Zijlstra (Dutch) Social software channel Stephanie Allen's COP^2 Matt's blog Joe Corthrel Ross Mayfield Sam Ruby Staurt Henshall Terry Frazier Chris McRae David Gurteen 25 most recent: Double - loop learning and social learning Systems... Social networks and country-to-country transfer: d... Efios launched Rail Safe The Google Legacy Yahoo! patents (parts of) social networks: Method ... Social Capital in Virtual Learning Communities The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving The reciprocity of innovative capabilities Knowledge Garden and Research whiteboard to RSS Social Network Analysis at BHP Intervision and communities of practice Weak ties in communities of practice Corporate SNA in CIO magazine Introduction to UCINET and social network methods The navigational aspects of social networks Blended Learning in KM Supporting Pioneering Leaders as Communities of Pr... WHO uses communities of practice to achieving univ... Communities for Project Offices Power struggle in radical innovation communities Xwiki, the MT of Wikis? Workshop Report on the Theory and Practice of Phys... Inquiry: Learning begins with Questions Deadline for VC2005 on the 30th of May Learning for development (Organizational Learning) ICTs and Social Capital in the Knowledge Society: ...