This document discusses the importance of networks for health and well-being. It introduces the concept of "social health", which is defined as maintaining a balance between activity, mindset, connections and connectedness to enhance productivity and well-being. The document discusses how networks are everywhere and examines different types of networks like hubs, nodes, routers and connections. It also discusses the power of diverse networks and weak ties for accessing new information and opportunities. Finally, it presents a hexagon model of social health that involves factors like knowledge networks, time, and pace/process/performance.

1. THE POWER OF NETWORKS:
How Networks Keep You Healthy in the
Age of Overload: Introducing Social Health
JULIA HOBSBAWM

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3. Networks Are Everywhere.

5. THE TRIPLE REVOLUTION
Rainie & Wellman

7. LOUISE KAMANO
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12. Networks: Hubs, Nodes,
Routers – Connection points

13. SUPERSPREADERS

14. Good and Bad Networks

15. Collaborative Networks

16. "Interconnection" Power Networks

17. The Chaos of Closed Networks

18. Social Networks, Social Capital, SOCIAL HEALTH

19. "Health is a state of
complete physical, mental
and social well-being and
not merely the absence of
disease or infirmity" –
World Health Organisation
1946

20. SOCIAL HEALTH:
What Does it Look Like?

21. "SOCIAL"

22. "some of the oldest social
wiring dates back over 100
million years"
- Matthew Lieberman in Social
Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, UCLA

23. Face-Face
Written Word
Broadcast
The Communications Hierarchy
© Julia Hobsbawm 2014

24. Social Health: “To Maintain a balance between activity, mindset,
connections and connectedness which enhance well-being and
productivity” – © Julia Hobsbawm
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25. The Hexagon of Social Health
© Julia Hobsbawm 2016
KNOWLEGDE
NETWORKS
TIME
Pace, Process & Performance

26. The power of diverse and "weak ties"

27. " Network Out and Across"
Professor Herminia
Ibarra, INSEAD and
LBS

28. Jazz Ensembles or Orchestras?

30. "We have approximately
one-point five million
volumes and an active
interlibrary loan system" –
Nate to Harry in "May We Be
Forgiven" by A.M. Homes

31. The Knowledge Dashboard:
Read Long; Read Short;
Watch; Listen; See Live

32. THE DUNBAR NUMBER: HOW MANY FRIENDS DO YOU
NEED?

34. Diary = "Body"

35. "In a world of big powers,
media and monopolies,
networking is the new
freedom, the new democracy"
- Dr Robert Muller 'Decide to
Network'

36. www.juliahobsbawm.com
@juliahobsbawm
julia@thefullyconnected.com
© Professor Julia Hobsbawm. Presented to
VISION CONFERENCE 2016