Here is an amazing report on the applications of network mapping, analysis and weaving to assist and facilitate human rights work. It is ...

In going through some my old articles, I ran across a tribute to my late friend and colleague, Bob Stambaugh. He was a network weaver in the...

In addition to my blogging here, I am starting a new blog which will expand beyond "network weaving". The new blog is named: TNT ...

You don't need network mapping software to get groups started with Social Network Analysis. All you need is some large chart paper, a fe...

Last week I was in Barbados, one of the many island jewels scatted throughout the azure waters of the Caribbean. The United Nations has hire...

One of the pleasures of selling social network analysis software and services is seeing what clients do with the new knowledge and tools we ...

One of the more interesting questions I get about social networks is the question of whether we find networks where everyone shares common v...

I continue to be amazed at the common confusion of network building with networking. The difference is a significant one. I netbuilding, our...

Valdis' brilliant reminders here about the capacity for resilience through net diversity remind me of a point I made in " Accidenta...

Birds of a feather flock together... so do entrepreneurs. Ed Morrison found some interesting research that examines the dense clustering of...

In today's NY Times , NYU's graduate program's new ad headline/tagline: "I'm earning my Master's, and joining a pow...

I am continuously innovating in the development of questions that can evoke netawareness (awareness of your own networks) without necessaril...

I think Jack is bringing up a really key point when he discusses positional value! A Network Weaver needs to be aware of where he or she is ...

Early on in this blog, I offered a list of characteristcs of network weavers. This list has now been expanded into the Network Weaver Checkl...

In my work with social network development, we're talking about 3 kinds of value people bring to their networks, that shape the quality ...

In his July 25th post , Valdis mentioned the social network mapping of obesity networks in The New England Journal of Medicine paper by Nic...

"So important are these social skills that it is females with the best social networks, not those most senior in the hierarchy, who lea...

This is a symbolic progression of generative relationships in part of a network. I like to use it to sharpen people's sense making about...

There is an etiquette to connecting with people we don't know (people in our 2nd and 3rd circles). In conversation with June and Valdis,...

Breakfast conversation today with two amazing women who are innovating in building and connecting intentional communities in Africa and her...

You may have seen the recent stories in the New York Times that described the wonderful successes of the Pittsburgh Veterans Administration...

72 Look at the history of any culture or nation, and find that whole groups and communities can be collectively conscious or unaware. And it...

This is my prodigal return to the NetWeaving blog, post promise to Valdis and June in our agreement to step up our engagement here. The only...

Steve "Habib" Rose Nov. 12, 1957 - Sept. 26, 2007 Habib , our friend and colleague, passed away yesterday. He was the biggest fan ...

Innovation happens at the intersection... of two or more different, yet similar, groups. Where... one technology meets another one discipli...

Attended the Defrag conference at Lorain County Community College [LCCC] these past two days. What a wonderful facility LCCC has! Just l...

The most exciting part of my consulting this last year has been realizing how many "natural" network weavers are already at work ...

Thought leader, entrepreneur and management academic, Karen Stephenson, talks about the “quantum theory of trust” in organizations, which r...

When we're helping build trust in network relationships, we need to work from two distinctions: earned and unearned trust. Unearned trus...

Valdis and I have been having this conversation about the quality of relational transactions in networks. We're thinking outside the us...

weave better networks... for myself and others. But, be careful whose advice you follow! Here are two contrasting pieces of advice emanatin...

Good things are happening in the Cuyahoga Valley. People and organizations are connecting, and money is pouring in. Connections, Cognition,...

Today I attended a conference on digital media at the Cleveland Institute of Art -- affectionately called "CIA" on the North Sho...

Riffing of our Plexus Institute conference call yesterday: when we want to create a broader set of connections around any project we have on...

June and I chatted this morning about the centrality of innovation in our network weaving work. Everyone we work with is after one or both k...

Local network weaving is great, but global network weaving is better! I am blogging from Riga, Latvia , where this week I participated in so...

patternHunter observes ... One of the challenges with "social networking" sites is that most are more correctly "social linki...

In an adaptive, networked environment, the primacy of location moves from geography to netography . In the netography, it matters whether w...

I continue to get good traction from the distinction of our 3 circles. Our first circle includes people we know well - we and they have a ...

We had a productive day today, getting our web site up, preparing for our next conference , and accomplishing quite a bit around Jack's...

This is a 1.0 version of a formula for measuring trust in relationships. It's intended to use a formula for assessing the complex and in...

Many people think that all post-Katrina recovery efforts are fragmented and failing. Although many of the formal organizations are falling...

I got an email today from a dear friend who is promoting sustainable development in small remote Mayan villages in Belize. She has done a ma...

Weaving Smart Networks: Building Capacity for Positive Change in Organizations and Communities will be held in Washington, DC on October 12-...

When it comes to making change in communities and organizations, there are a few key roles that make change possible. One group is the group...

Interesting discussion recently with a health care organization about designing new programs. They liked the idea of different strategies fo...

... to a very loud "You Suck!" Wow. The Cleveland Plain Dealer, the last major paper in town, used to write about the "quie...

One of the powerful dynamics of successful entrepreneurial networks is the use of complex reciprocity (or what anthropologists call a gift e...

One of the most exciting frontiers of this decade is the place where Social Network Analysis and Complexity Science are cross fertilizing. T...

One of the critical characteristics of Smart Networks is that they have expanding, very productive peripheries. If we look at where we’ve go...

Interesting conversation today with friend and colleague Tom Carlson who's fast becoming a raving social network fan. Actually, it's...

One of the basic building blocks of weaving networks is "closing of triangles". A triangle exists between three people in a socia...

Entrepreneurs for Sustainability[E4S] is a NE Ohio network of entrepreneurs and change agents from business, government, academia and non-pr...

June 29 & 30 Open Source Economic Development: New Practices and Tools for Economic Development - an invigorating curriculum for leaders...

In training with a few hundred health care staff this week focused on relationship building, we had them closing triangles, after a few minu...

The work we do with organizations and communities introduces many of them for the first time to the value of social capital. It is a whole n...

Maybe it was because of my lens, but I noticed that trust was one of the threads running through the talks and panel in yesterday's KM c...

June, Valdis, and I participated in a day long Cleveland KM cluster conference yesterday on social and value networks and tools. It was a st...

I’m still trying to figure out what I loved about Ghana. Unlike most trips, I came back from there energized and feeling nurtured, not drai...

I just posted some things I have written on networks and/or entrepreneurship on my web page: www.networkweaving.com/june.html The first one ...

Just wanted to let people know that they can learn more about Smart Networks and Network Weaving at a workshop in Cleveland on Friday May 19...

As I travel around the country--and now the world--I'm starting to see some very interesting and provocative economic shifts--part real,...

The more I observe and reflect on the quality of connections in community networks, the more interested I become in the question of how to a...

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I've been in Ghana working with a United Nations project that is bringing together West Africans to w...

I'm sitting with Valdis at Talkies who's been contacted for a project of marsupial mapping. I flinched until he explains a project a...

Network Weavers are individuals who take responsibility for creating healthy networks, what we call Smart Networks. Anyone can learn to be a...

Some places you go... you always meet someone you know. And even better, someone you should know, but don't yet! These places are magn...

We are seeing more and more interest in "regional economies" all over the world. One of the key players in regional economics are...

The first step in Network Weaving is mapping the existing networks in your organization/community/region. • What are our strengths? • What a...

E4S , one of the premier entrepreneurial learning communities in Ohio [if not nationally!], held their annual network building meeting at th...

Next week I'll be flying to Ghana to work on a United Nations project. They will be bringing together non-profit and government leaders ...

1 / Intracommunity assessment People within communities work together to create a common understanding of the opportunity landscapes. We’re...

This is a graphic we use to show our 3 circles of connections in our networks. Our 1st circle are people we know well. In our 2nd circle are...

Networks build through introductions and not all introductions are equal. They are distinguished by the quality of the introduction. If peop...

The Network Weaving experience of ACEnet is described in a white paper [PDF] by Valdis and June. The paper steps you through the network w...