efios     Efios home Weblog     The efios blog: "It's all about people and networks"       27 November 2003 Created connectedness though social networks Jon Husband in his blog points to an interesting article that appeared in the NY times yesterday on Decoding the New Cues in Online Society, about the power and improper or misues of social network tools - as a semi-interview with Danah Boyd (see her blog, too). But friendship develops in social contexts, Ms. Boyd says; it doesn't just flow through the pipes of a network. "Just because you're friends with somebody doesn't mean their friends are similar in the type of context you are with your friends," she said. Unless the social networking sites adapt to how people need to use them, she said, the sites will not succeed This happened at 8:16:04 PM  Ideas and comments to this [] or trackback [] Online Information 2003 Next week in London the event Online Information 2003. Don't miss the highlights of this three day event (2-4 December): Richard McDermott's workshop on sustaining communities and his keynote on the 4th The track on "the impact of weblogs" on Wednesday afternoon The track on "innovation and communities of practice" on Thursday morning in which we speak as well On top of that, Wednesday at 12:00 David Gurteen is giving a knowledge café which he assured me was going to be very interesting and challenging! He says on his site: A knowledge café is a simple means for a group of people to have an open, creative conversation on a topic of mutual interest to gain a deeper collective understanding of the subject and the issues involved. This 30 minute talk by David Gurteen, founder of the Gurteen Knowledge Community will explain: The concept of a knowledge café The different types of knowledge cafés Their benefits How to run a knowledge café This happened at 6:52:03 PM  Ideas and comments to this [] or trackback [] © Copyright 2005 Erik van Bekkum. November 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             Oct   Dec 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: ...