Socialogy, Not Sociology

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Stowe BoydMar 204 min read

It’s Betweenness That Matters, Not Your Eigenvalue: The Dark Matter Of Influence

The deep structure of being truly connected: being a conduit makes you a vector.

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Marie WallaceJan 252 min read

Is Social Impact worth rewarding?

Impact is one of those vague and nebulous terms that people throw out there, but which frequently means something different to everyone. However, when looking at social network analysis it’s a measurement that we could quite precisely define and mathematically measure…

Stowe BoydFeb 211 min read

Thierry de Baillon on Balancing Control and Autonomy

There always has been more to human collectivities than the collectivity itself. — Thierry de Baillon

Stowe BoydJan 208 min read

Celine Schillinger on Social as the New Normal

I’ve never had the pleasure of meeting Celine, our involvement has been limited to virtual discourse online. I hope we can someday sit down face-to-face.

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Stowe BoydMar 275 min read

Harold Jarche on Knowledge Management

The only knowledge we can manage is our own.

I met Harold a few years back through Peter Vander Auwera who runs the Innotribe activities for Swift and had us work together on a presentation on organizational…

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Stowe BoydFeb 84 min read

Q&A about Enterprise Social Networks with IBM

Adoption of enterprise social networks has been problematic because the benefits are difficult to quantify, are slow to be realized (if at all), and the…

Stowe BoydFeb 14 min read

The social lives of our ‘bots and second-order productivity

I’m attending IBM’s Connect event in Florida, and in a discussion with some of the product folks working on Verse, IBM’s intelligent email client, I had a few thoughts. These are equally relevant to the folks working on Inbox…

Stowe BoydJan 237 min read

Ayelet Baron on Decluttering, Simplifying, and Lifeworking

We need leaders to own and drive two-way communication and stop handing over their responsibilities to functionaries.

Stowe BoydJan 173 min read

Another Day in Paradox

The British are as conservative as cats — like most people — and dislike innovation. So fooling around with the convention for escalators to have two sides — the right hand side for folks to stand and the left for people to walk — is likely to cause consternation. But it seems that…

Stowe BoydJan 172 min read

It’s not a mirror, it’s a window

The various social tools that young people use come with their own rules and etiquette, much of which is lost on the unsuspecting adults that use them in much more functional ways. Instagram is for photo sharing, right? So it would seem reasonable to share a lot of…

Stowe BoydJan 137 min read

Will McInnes and The Radically Democratic Company

I met Will McInnes online, and not too long afterward he invited me to speak at the Meaning 2012 conference in Brighton, south of London, where his consultancy, NixonMcInnes, is based. The conference was truly inspiring, and it gave me a chance…

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