Network+Building+and+Weaving+Tips

=Readings on Communities and Networks= =What are your best tips for mapping, building and weaving networks?= See also
 * Network Theory
 * Network Exercises
 * [|Emerging Presentation on using Networks] (google preso)

Network Building

 * map your personal networl
 * map your organizational or project network
 * do a Value Map (Verna Allee)
 * Nancy's notes from [|Patti Anklam's book], Net Work http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ajjhrxn6x7mb_95fn2rxm
 * [|Orgnet - Valdis Krebs]
 * Communities of Practice for Building Social Networks The [|action-oriented community of practice] approach fosters new networks. See the last step of the process.
 * Barry Wellman on Twitter []

Network Weaving and Nurturing

 * [|Network Weaving] - June Holley and Valdis Krebs**==**

Network Theory and Networks in General

 * Network models in monitoring, evaluation and program design (great basic reading) [|http://mande.co.uk/special-issues/network-models/__]
 * [|networks4newbies: A non-technical introduction into social network analysis]. by Barry Wellman. Undated. 116 slides
 * [|Organisational Network Analysis.] Encouraging Knowledge Sharing in Professional Services Conference 2007, Sydney, Australia[|,] Chris Fletcher. 30 Slides
 * Rick Davie’s great list of papers on social networks [|__http://mande.co.uk/2008/lists/social-network-analysis-and-evaluation-a-list/__]
 * [|NetWork:][|A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining Networks at Work and in the World]by Patti Anklam
 * [|http://www.networkroundtable.org] University of Virginia Network Roundtable, source of research reports showing various applications of network analysis for enhancing knowledge sharing and organisational effectiveness.
 * *[|ONA-prac.] The online community for learners and practitioners in the emerging field of Organizational Network Analysis. []
 * Patti Anklams page about organizational network analysis []
 * International Network for Social Network Analysis []


 * " [|A Practical Guide to Social Networks,] " by Rob Cross, Jeanne Liedtka, and Leigh Weiss. //Harvard Business Review,// March 2005, Reprint R0503H.
 * "[| Making Invisible Work Visible: Using Social Network Analysis to Support Strategic Collaboration], by Rob Cross, Stephen P. Borgatti, and Andrew Parker. //California Management Review,// Vol. 44, No. 2, Winter 2002
 * "[|The People Who Make Organizations Go--or Stop] ," by Laurence Prusak; Rob Cross, //Harvard Business Review// June 2002 Reprint R0206G
 * "[|Knowing What We Know] ," by Rob Cross, Andrew Parker, Laurence Prusak, and Stephen P. Borgatti, conference at Batten Institute, Darden School, University of Virginia.
 * "[|Six Myths About Informal Networks and How To Overcome Them] " by Rob Cross, Nitin Nohria and Andrew Parker in //Sloan Management Review//
 * “[|Karen Stephenson's Quantum Theory of Trust] ,” Art Kleiner, Shambhala Institute //Fieldnotes//, July 2005
 * "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Designs for Working] ," Malcolm Gladwell, New Yorker Magazine
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"How Networks Reshape Organizations for Results," by Ram Charam. //Harvard Business Review,// September-October 1991.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"What Creates Energy in Organizations?" by Rob Cross, Wayne Baker, and Andrew Parker. //Sloan Management Review,// Summer 2003.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">ODI's paper on Role of Networks <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|ODI]

Network Thought Leaders
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Steve Borgatti http://www.analytictech.com] distributes widely used network analysis tools UCINET and Netdraw.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Rob Cross - <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[]
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Patti Anklam - <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[]
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Valdis Krebs - <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|http://www.orgnet.com] Valdis Krebs produces analysis software called Inflow. He is an <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|ONA pioneer with 25 years experience] applying network analysis in organisations.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">June Holley
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Eva Schiffer

Books
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">//The Hidden Power of Social Networks//, by Rob Cross & Andrew Parker 2004 is an organisational network analysis primer. Appendix A (p. 143) describes ‘Conducting and Interpreting a Personal Network Analysis’. Appendix B (p. 167) has ‘Tools for Promoting Network Connectivity’ including a ‘Personal Network Diagnostic’.<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[]
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Net Work] : A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining Networks at Work and in the World by <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Patti Anklam] 2007

Network Mapping Approaches

 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NetMap Toolbox (Eva Schiffer) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__http://netmap.ifpriblog.org/about/__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SNA Software <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__http://mande.co.uk/2008/media/software/social-network-analysis-software-a-list/__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A slide show by Patti Anklam showing the results of SNA in an international development context <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__http://www.slideshare.net/ifad/cdocuments-and-settingsch-palmeridesktoppi-retreat-2010ifad-bangladesh-ona-2010__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|Networked Leadership]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__http://www.leadershipforanewera.org/__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__http://www.networkweaver.blogspot.com/__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Charlene Li <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__Open Leadership__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Patti Anlkam on networked leadership <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__http://www.pattianklam.com/2010/06/leadership-and-networks/__]