Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 27, 2007

How long you should spend reading each day will vary tremendously for each individual, though most directors would benefit enormously from spending at least two hours each day learning more about developments in their industry and the broad social, economic and business environment.

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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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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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MAY 11, 2010

When I started writing my book Living Networks in early 2002 I thought that it was important to demonstrate that the concept of 'living networks' was not just a metaphor, but a reality: we, together with the networks that connect us, are literally a new life form. This is happening on two levels. THE SUPERORGANISM.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Today we are releasing our next major report, which distils - through unattributed verbatim quotes - what senior executives REALLY think about social networks inside organizations. Download the Executive Insights into Enterprise Social Networking Strategy report. a report released today says. a report released today says.

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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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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Download Chapter 10 of Living Networks on Liberating Individuals. Every chapter of Living Networks is being released on this blog as a free download, together with commentary and updated perspectives since its original publication in 2002. Living Networks – Chapter 10: Liberating Individuals.

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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 was the gold sponsor for the Living Networks Forum I ran with Business Development Institute in New York in December 2003.

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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. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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FEBRUARY 28, 2010

It is intriguing that mobile social networking, which I have written about since its early days in 2002 , has only taken off when Foursquare made it into a game. Tags: Future of media Social networks Social trends Technology trends foursquare games jesseschell. Xbox 360 Games - E3 2010 - Guitar Hero 5.

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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 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. There are a few critical points to add here.

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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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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. It will then allow people to request to be connected to others in their organization that have specific expertise. See some screenshots here.

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JUNE 28, 2006

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Announcing the Future of Media Summit 2006 | Main | Will mainstream advertising die? Mainstream media and social media feed off each other.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2011

In Chapter 1 of my 2002 book Living Networks I wrote: When did you last say or hear someone say “what a small world”? A paper just submitted to arXiv titled Four Degrees of Separation , says that a study of the entire network of 721 million Facebook users with 69 billion relationship links shows an average distance of 4.74

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NOVEMBER 7, 2012

My first post on the Trends in Living Networks blog was on October 5, 2002, beginning: The emergence of the “living web”: In just the same way as the networks are coming to life, the language that we use to describe this new world is emerging and evolving. I just realized I missed my 10th anniversary of blogging.

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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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SEPTEMBER 12, 2006

I talked about how social media is unleashing our latent humanity, by providing us with new ways of interacting and relating. We are exploring and discovering who we become as individuals and a society through using the new tools of social media. MySpace is a specific manifestation of how young people’s attention is shifting.

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APRIL 9, 2008

I wrote about proximity dating in my 2002 book Living Networks and on this blog in early 2003 , at the time referring to Imahima, an early player in this space in Japan. I see a parallel path to browser-based social networking. For the most current insights and trends in the living networks, follow @rossdawson on Twitter!

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

Future Exploration Network. Social change tends to be faster in a downturn. Sophisticated and with a social conscience, Gen Z has never lived without the internet or mobile phones. Companies become social. In 2009, companies will truly embrace social networks, blogs, and other Web 2.0 About Ross Dawson.

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MARCH 28, 2008

Moreover, the educational and social structures required to support them are dramatically different to those that support the creation of an industrial and manufacturing powerhouse. For the most current insights and trends in the living networks, follow @rossdawson on Twitter! All of these flow easily across boundaries.

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APRIL 21, 2008

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « The joys of self-employment: 7 reasons to love being your own boss | Main | Launch of Living Networks - Anniversary Edition! My Enterprise 2.0

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JULY 15, 2010

Back when I wrote Living Networks in 2002 the idea that we were all part of a global brain was hardly mainstream, though a community of people were actively engaged with the idea. Tags: Future of humanity Social media globalbrain whattechnologywants. Today the idea of the global brain seems to be very much alive.

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AUGUST 28, 2007

It’s another issue to uncover which are the most relevant social networks for your professional life, and to use these effectively. As such, it often makes sense to belong to specialist social networks. Reuters networking. Open network to discuss advertising and the latest ads. INmobile.org.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2008

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Interview on the state of applying Web 2.0 In a recent post New ways of collaborating at the bank , James writes about how Lloyds TSB is piloting social media such as blogs.

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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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NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Here's my piece: Recent data shows Australians spend more time engaging with social media than any other nation. And yet few Australian companies have tapped the power of blogging and social media. Companies should establish a governance process for engaging with social media; in essence, thinking through how to go about it.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Value is increasingly seen as shifting to social networks. Media – as in the flow of information – is increasingly between people rather than in a hub and spoke arrangement, which makes social networking platforms central to value creation. Social networking platforms have figured out what works.

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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 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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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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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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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.

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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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DECEMBER 13, 2010

What we knew as media has exploded far beyond its traditional boundaries to encompass most social activity, how organizations function, and indeed the creation of almost all economic value. Every business and social activity is a form of media. Our social lives are manifestations of media. ORGANIZATIONS TO NETWORKS.

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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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