2. Social Networking!!!
Connecting Communities…
Interdependent People
Friend of a Friend Social Networking (FOAF)
“To Discover How A, Who is in Touch with B and C,
Is Affected by the Relation Between B & C”
-John Barnes
3. Problems
Personal Relationship issues
Identifying the Bottlenecks
Identifying Key information brokers
Identifying the Leaders
Identifying Groups
Identifying suspicious Information flow
4. Why SNA?
Examines the social relationship structures
Uncovers Information flow
Who Knows Whom?
Who calls whom?
Who does What with whom?
Conducting SNA
Groups
Interactions
Attributes
5. SNA for Organizational issues
Smarter Decisions
Increased Innovation
Increased Productivity
Insight - challenges of integration
Productive discussion