The Office Chart That Really Counts

Mapping informal relationships at a company is revealing — and useful
Two years ago, Ken Loughridge, an information technology manager living in Cheshire, England, uprooted his family and moved to the other side of the world. His company, engineering and environmental consulting firm MWH Global, was reorganizing its various information technology Read More...

I recently had a chance to have a conversation with Pamela Walker Laird, a History professor with the University of Colorado at Denver, and author of the new book Pull: Networking and Success Since Benjamin Franklin, a history of networking and mentoring in American business, published by Harvard University Press, 2006.
She was kind enough to Read More...

I sent out the link to New York magazine’s article on Social Network Diagram of the Top 50 Bloggers to the Socnet mailing list, which generated a lot of interesting discussion.
Elijah Write pointed to this older picture of the blogosphere:
http://www.blogninja.com/hicss05.blogconv.pdf

Valdis Krebs pointed to these links:
Stan Wasserman’s comments on this topic in his blog “Centrality”…
http://www.centralityjournal.com/archives/what_is_a_technorati_ranking.html

Eszter Hargittai’s Read More...

We finally did it: we have made our new book, The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online, available for free download. Of course, we encourage you to buy the bound book at your local bookstore. It’s much easier to read that way (and actually cheaper than printing out Read More...

From New York magazine, the “Haves and the Have-Nots” of the blogosphere.
Of most interest:
“There are upwards of 27 million blogs in the world. To discover how they relate to one another, we’ve taken the most-linked-to 50 and mapped their connections. Each arrow represents a hypertext link that was made sometime in the past 90 days. Read More...

Last year, our ex-employee A.J. Al-Fayez introduced me to two current Harvard MBA students, Matthew Chun and David Morland. Matthew and David are both former engineers and management consultants, with an interest in internet and technology businesses. As a part of John Wells’ class entitled “Strategic Agility: Competing On The Edge,” they wrote Read More...

New federal rules will make job hunting online trickier
Federal regulations kick in today that will make Internet job hunting more complicated. Here’s what candidates need to know – and change — now.
link…
Via Jim Conley

Guy Kawasaki devotes a lot more time than I seem to have handy to write thoughtful, well-organized pieces, like his list of tips for The Effective Emailer.

I love blog carnivals – they’re probably the very best way to keep up with the best of the blogs with a minimum of effort. Amazingly, there is not yet a blog carnival about entrepreneurship – marketing, capitalism, and many related topics, but not entrepreneurship. Inspired by helping launch the Carnival of Marketing, I’ve decided Read More...

Next Wednesday, February 8, from 1:00-2:30 Pacific (4:00-5:30 EST), I’ll be doing a free teleseminar with Steven Van Yoder, author of Get Slightly Famous (review), on how to use blogs, social networking sites and online communities to increase your exposure and position yourself as a thought leader in your field.
Some of the topics we’ll cover Read More...