I find it hard to believe that any real-world employees anywhere will ever accept Reality Mining the Organization–tracking, recording and analyzing every spoken conversation for Social Network Analysis purposes.

Judith Meskill has put together The ‘Perfect’ Corporate Weblogging ‘Elevator Pitch’ Competition. Here’’s the scenario:
A business executive, with whom you have been trying to arrange a meeting, is available for a condensed pitch from you on a one minute elevator ride.
It is your goal to convince this attentive business leader — who has heard [...]

After a conversation with Charles Kadushin, I just read the pre-print of his Too Much Investment in Social Capital?.
In this piece, he reviews a number of prominent books related to the topic of social capital. It is a good introductory piece to the topic (albeit written in somewhat academic language).
In the most [...]

Keith Ferrazzi> has something to say on this topic.

In this InfoWorld Interview with Valdis Krebs and Gerry Falkowski , the line I like is:
Valdis: People have a wrong impression about what a weak tie is. It’s not just a casual acquaintance. A weak tie used to be a strong tie; there was trust and shared knowledge. If I go to a conference today [...]

Following are my notes on Jeff Meshel’’s recent talk at the
International Executives Resource Group (IERGOnline.com)
Jeff Meshel
CEO, Mercury Capital
at International Executives Resource Group (IERGOnline)
3/16/04
Three lines of business at Mercury Capital
• Bridge lender to real estate sector
• Buy & operate buildings
• Mercury Capital Group–Nasdaq B/D—investment banking group
He owns 1 Exchange Place.
Sample deal: On board of Broadband Capital (microcap focused i-bank). [...]

Following are some of my notes from the 3/26/04 KMCluster event on social networks ( http://www.kmcluster.com/nyc/NYC_Spring_2004.htm ) in New York
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Social networks over the decades (Robin Athey)
30s
Jacob levy Moreno (sociometrics / sociograms (early SNA)
Kurt Lewin: group dynamics
Fritz Heider: balance theory (when group is thrown out of balance , we work to correct it)
70s: Ron Burt [...]

If the online social networking is getting to be a bit too much for you, then maybe you should try Introvertster.
From their website:
Introvertster is an online community that prevents stupid people and friends from harrassing you online.
You can use Introvertster to:

Avoid invites to chat, filter out annoying invitations for Meetup, birthday parties, or after-hours [...]

Tribe released some major upgrades to their site yesterday, including:
1) New home page, featuring a more CSS oriented layout which should make it faster loading, plus some layout enhancements to make the page less cluttered.
2) Events tab, miscellaneous enhancements to Events module.
We have been working for quite some time on an Events module [...]

I just finalized an agreement with LinkedIn to deliver teleclasses for them beginning in April.
The title of the class will be “LinkedIn Unleashed: Leveraging Your Network on LinkedIn for Business Effectiveness and Career Success”. The first class is tentatively scheduled for April 21 at 12pm Pacific / 3pm Eastern.
Watch here for more details and [...]