Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 14, 2007

Below is the Extinction Timeline created jointly by What’s Next and Future Exploration Network – click on the image for the detailed timeline as a pdf (1.2MB). For the most current insights and trends in the living networks, follow @rossdawson on Twitter! Also see Richard Watson’s blog post on the extinction timeline.

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

Future Exploration Network. Many companies will take advantage of the downturn to use technology in innovative ways. Our attitudes to what is acceptable behavior by the government and companies will rapidly evolve. Companies become social. In 2009, companies will truly embrace social networks, blogs, and other Web 2.0

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NOVEMBER 5, 2007

For the most current insights and trends in the living networks, follow @rossdawson on Twitter! This seems like a useful study in getting more detail on what organizations can do to enhance collaboration, in a world where collaboation drives organizational performance more than just about any other factor.

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APRIL 22, 2008

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Launch of Living Networks - Anniversary Edition! For the full Table of Contents and free chapter downloads see the Living Networks website or the Book Launch/ Preface to the Anniversary Edition.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2007

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « The state of Enterprise 2.0: About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « The state of Enterprise 2.0:

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JANUARY 30, 2007

This has always been true, but in our hyper-connected world the fundamental networked nature of our world is coming to the fore. In my book Living Networks I described how these networks are now coming to life. Organizational network analysis (ONA) has been adopted as a powerful management tool by many leading organizations.

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AUGUST 3, 2007

From the very beginning of the social networking space, with the launch of sixdegrees.com in 2000 (which gave up the ghost in January 2002), the fundamental underlying issue was whether social networks would be entirely exclusive and competitive, or whether they would in some way integrate to create a global social networking space.

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MARCH 28, 2008

Among other activities, it actively encourages interactive media companies, gaming ventures, and content development. For the most current insights and trends in the living networks, follow @rossdawson on Twitter! Initiatives include media education , supporting PC games , and developing a research ecosystem.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Successful Enterprise 2.0 About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Successful Enterprise 2.0

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APRIL 10, 2008

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Mobile social networking, meaning virtual networks bringing people physically together, will inevitably be a pervasive application | Main | More media coverage of Enterprise 2.0

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MAY 7, 2008

I first came across his work in the mid-1990s, when he was one of the first people in world applying social network analysis approaches to organizations, for his then-employer BHP. Many other great reports and industry network maps are available from the Optimice website. Laurie says on his inaugural post : Now to the governance bit.

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AUGUST 27, 2007

For now, I thought I’d post an article I originally published 10 years ago in the October 1997 issue of Company Director magazine. Information overload is a fact of life for company directors, senior managers, and all professionals. Everything I wrote is still completely valid. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is."

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APRIL 15, 2008

He is Founding Chairman of four companies: professional services and venture firm Advanced Human Technologies , future and strategy consulting group Future Exploration Network , leading events firm The Insight Exchange , and influence ratings start-up Repyoot. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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MAY 7, 2008

For the full Table of Contents and free chapter downloads see the Living Networks website or the Book Launch/ Preface to the Anniversary Edition. For the full Table of Contents and free chapter downloads see the Living Networks website or the Book Launch/ Preface to the Anniversary Edition.

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AUGUST 15, 2007

While this is still a relatively new field, we are beginning to uncover some very specific approaches and applications to industry network analysis. This new network analysis goes considerably deeper, analyzing the change in industry structure before and after a significant acquistion, by Macquarie Media Group of Southern Cross Broadcasting.

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APRIL 13, 2007

Yet social networking is not just about friends and personal networks. Applying social networks in the enterprise is a sweet spot that has massive potential value. Spoke had a unique model at the time, providing both social networking applications inside the enterprise, as well as a public version of their application.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2008

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « The power of Enterprise Mashups | Main | Interview on SkyBusiness TV: the state of the Yahoo! Microsoft battle » What is Enterprise 2.0? – Executive Forum.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2008

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Lloyds TSB pilots social media | Main | BRW Digital Edition: new-style journalism and some insights into Web 2.0 » Will libraries disappear in 2019? Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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AUGUST 7, 2006

I have broken this out as a separate piece here, as many people interested in industry network analysis may not have delved into the report. I have broken this out as a separate piece here, as many people interested in industry network analysis may not have delved into the report. Diagram explanation Each circle represents a company.

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APRIL 22, 2008

Free download of entire book Ross Dawson, April 22, 2008 4:42 AM US PT Living Networks has just been relaunched in an Anniversary Edition, to mark five years since its original publication by Financial Times/ Prentice Hall in November 2002. So just come back to the blog or Living Networks website regularly or subscribe on your RSS reader.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2008

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Great review of Enterprise 2.0 However there are occasional compensations for the work of going through many resumes. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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JUNE 11, 2007

I’ll be doing a keynote titled: We, Evolved: networks of influence: The power of the social network - word of mouth, buzz, curation – has never been stronger. Can we, the marketer, influence these networks overtly or only covertly? Can we, the marketer, influence these networks overtly or only covertly?

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AUGUST 1, 2007

For the most current insights and trends in the living networks, follow @rossdawson on Twitter! Details below - click through to get the invitation and registration details. Ill provide some of the content on this blog around the time of the speech. Hope to see you there! Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

[Editor’s Note: Akhtar Badshah, who led Microsoft’s philanthropic efforts from 2004 to 2014, writes about the roots and impact of the company’s giving campaign in his new book, “Purpose Mindset: How Microsoft Inspires Employees & Alumni to Change the World.” This excerpt is reprinted with permission.]. Akhtar Badshah.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 1, 2007

The author is Mark Pesce , noted for being the co-inventor of VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language) (which I was a big fan of when it came out – I wrote about it in my first book which came out in 2000) and his immoderate thoughts on the future of media – in other words an extremely credible commentator on an often muddied field.

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MARCH 3, 2008

It quotes me as follows: According to Ross Dawson, chairman of the Future Networks think tank, other obstacles will also frustrate users looking for a portable mobile computing solution. examines how mobile phones, PDAs, portable computers and more are converging. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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AUGUST 25, 2007

International networks in accounting, law, consulting, and other professional services have flourished over the last years as small to mid-sized firms have sought the benefits of belonging to a network. Yet the reality is that the degree of collaboration within most of these networks is, to put it kindly, far less than it could be.

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OCTOBER 2, 2006

This harkens back to Canadian gold mining company Goldcorp’s initiative , whereby they publicly released the geological data on their properties, and set up a competition with prizes for whoever could give them the best recommendations on where to dig for gold. More and more energy and resources will be going into this space.

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MAY 12, 2006

I have no doubt that the analysis techniques used on this data were primarily network mapping, using software such as Netmap , which I described in an earlier article on social networks and intelligence applications. Searching for patterns in this data is a network analysis application, and the state of the art is pretty good now.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2007

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Announcing: Web 2.0 Part of my presentation covered how effective organizational networks underpin the ability to create value. Without them, communication can break down.

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JANUARY 28, 2008

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « DataPortability looks set to massively increase the value of the Net to users | Main | Digg, DataPortability, and business models » 2008 will be the year of Enterprise 2.0

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MAY 10, 2008

MySpace and Facebook are providing ways to open out users’ access to their data on those social networks. I wrote last year about how the dominant platform in technology is shifting to social networks , and the inexorable trend to openness in social networks. Permalink | View blog reactions Categories : Social networks , Web 2.0

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DECEMBER 18, 2006

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Speaking about corporate innovation and the future of business | Main | Happy holidays! Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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APRIL 16, 2008

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Techcrunch donates party proceeds to DataPortability and OpenID | Main | Is one web ratings black box better than another black box? Why should we believe Alexa is better?

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AUGUST 22, 2007

story and some of the more balanced media response , Sophos, another internet security company, has released survey results saying that half of all companies restrict access to Facebook. The issue for now is more whether it is appropriate to allow staff access to Facebook on company time.

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MAY 22, 2006

This squarely puts Microsoft into a space – enterprise social network software – that has previously been populated by Spoke , Visible Path , Contact Networks , and Tacit. Many organizations seem to think the enterprise social network software will provide an immediate solution, and many have stumbled already in applying these tools.

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Galido

MAY 1, 2019

The deeper we dive into modern technology terms, the more it seems we try to blend physical and virtual worlds together. These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. TechCrunch.

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