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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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OCTOBER 14, 2006

One of the many insights on this fascinating trip was how mobiles are leapfrogging the Internet across Africa. Across the continent, and even in relatively developed South Africa, fixed broadband Internet is difficult to access, expensive, and unreliable. Mobiles have already leapfrogged fixed line telephony across the continent.

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JULY 21, 2006

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « The social nature of Search 2.0 | Main | Mobile traffic data will pressure local radio » Being in two places at the same time Ross Dawson, July 21, 2006 5:02 PM US PT I really like this.

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

Future Exploration Network. It is due to a phenomenon called Constant Partial Attention, or CPA, in which our attention is constantly divided between a massive array of channels now including mobile Internet, video screens on buses, and more. In 2009, companies will truly embrace social networks, blogs, and other Web 2.0

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JULY 30, 2007

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Are virtual worlds an over-hyped waste of time for marketers? However the speed of Internet access varies substantially, by a factor of almost five across the countries covered.

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OCTOBER 2, 2006

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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FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Drawing on a new Pew Internet report on Social Media & Mobile Internet Use Among Teens and Young Adults , The New York Times headline is: Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter. Third , young people under 18 are certainly not drifting to Twitter, but to social networks such as Facebook.

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DECEMBER 11, 2007

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Corporate Australia (finally) engages in Web 2.0 For the most current insights and trends in the living networks, follow @rossdawson on Twitter!

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2005

On one-level “network-centric warfare” (see for example the US Department Defence report to Congress on this) has grown to prominence – or even predominance – in military strategic thinking over the last four years. However social network analysis has been applied by intelligence agencies and law enforcement for decades.

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MARCH 28, 2008

For the most current insights and trends in the living networks, follow @rossdawson on Twitter! The issue of how countries can support productive media activity is something I will spend considerably more time on over the next years, as this is one of the fundamental drivers of national economic success.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

I have long believed that location-based mobile social networking is central to how technology will connect us. The advent of next generation phones including the iPhone combined with people’s familiarity and engagement with social networks means that the space is – finally – ready to take off. The Present.

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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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NOVEMBER 30, 2005

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « The heart of professional services strategy | Main | Best books of 2005 » What is the future for newspapers? newspapers showing a circulation drop of 2.6% for weekdays (after falling 1.9%

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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 13, 2006

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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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 24, 2008

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « The next phase of the Internet will be about creating value from the WOW (Wide Open Web) | Main | After Web 2.0: WOW (Wide Open Web) - enough of version numbers for the web!!

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AUGUST 21, 2006

Although the mobile phone offers an "extremely appropriate platform for social networks," he said current pricing structures were holding back the market. The first is that a large proportion of social networking will shift to mobile platforms. In most cases there is unlimited data and Internet access on an attractive plan.

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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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OCTOBER 16, 2007

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Implementing Web 2.0 And how much as advanced technology like the internet added to the development of professional services? RD: Well, the internet has changed it in many ways.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2007

WiMax has the potential to offer high speed roaming Internet access over large areas. As importantly, 3G mobile technologies that require less power and thus can be used for extended periods by handheld devices will enable access to the Internet by anyone anywhere. Pipes , while Ning allowed people to set up their own social networks.

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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? Harvards stacks arent going anywhere.

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MARCH 4, 2006

and Microsoft of the 53 companies that are members of the Network Roundtable. and Microsoft of the 53 companies that are members of the Network Roundtable. I am the research leader for this last category of external connectivity work at the Network Roundtable, though I apply ONA across a broader range of areas with my clients.

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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. The book is available for purchase on Amazon.com and other major booksellers.

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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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OCTOBER 22, 2021

No one needs low-rise jeans to come back. Or capri trousers. And though they were supremely comfortable for their time, the Juicy Couture tracksuit can stay in the vault we put it in. Time has to stay synced precisely to the second, to prevent there from making a comeback. But a bug in the time rollback checking code… Read more.

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MARCH 19, 2008

For the most current insights and trends in the living networks, follow @rossdawson on Twitter! Of course there is never a substitute for human interaction and genuine love. But if that is complemented by other stimulating and engaging interaction, that’s all for the good. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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FEBRUARY 17, 2006

Continued: : The Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services - #1 Client Sophistication For the most current insights and trends in the living networks, follow @rossdawson on Twitter! Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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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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APRIL 18, 2006

To address this critical issue, CNET asked me to do a research study on this topic, which I did with Rob Cross of the Network Roundtable at the University of Virginia, Andrew Parker of Stanford University, and key CNET executives. Here is the link to the full CNET report on technology purchase influence networks.

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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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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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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. New media companies such as Yahoo!,

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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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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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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. The same recommendations still apply.

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MAY 5, 2006

Influence networks are at the heart The article then goes on to discuss emerging opportunities for the PR profession. It is far more about being engaged in the flow of messages through an intensely networked world than it is about formal communication. The six facets I identify are: 1. Clients expect more 2. Media is transformed 3.

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