Sunday, November 21, 2004

I, too am greatly interested in SNA and have followed the discussion for 3 1/2 years. Although it has not made the radar screen in my graduate IAKM program, studying the information flow between people is really of upmost interst and I think that this is reflected in my list of subscribed KM related blogs. That aside this post has a link to the National Library of Health (UK) that has a good general discussion of the aspects, commercial and academic of KM today

Social Network Analysis.

As I've mentioned previously, I'm currently enthralled with the concept of social network analysis (SNA). An understanding of information/knowledge flow through an organization would seem to be as vital to the information age as creating oil pipelines in the manufacturing age. A quick overview of SNA: "In the context of knowledge management, social network analysis (SNA) enables relationships between people to be mapped in order to identity knowledge flows: who do people seek information and knowledge from? Who do they share their information and knowledge with?"

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