Comments on: Enterprise social networks and ad-hoc groups http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2009/08/07/enterprise-social-networks-and-ad-hoc-groups/ sharing ideas thoughts and feedback Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:02:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: John Tropea http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2009/08/07/enterprise-social-networks-and-ad-hoc-groups/#comment-33029 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:52:59 +0100 http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2009/08/07/enterprise-social-networks-and-ad-hoc-groups/#comment-33029 Lawrence, Great to meet you! One thing, Twitter hashtags don't have members, it's a social slice/grouping. Are people that put money in a buskers hat members of a group...they are a slice of people that have this one thing in common. The difference with Twitter hashtags is you can connect (know about/ambiently aware) to those people. It really doesn't matter, it's all semantics. But when you add the level of tie to these different entities (networks, communities, teams), as you have done, it makes sense that the sweet spot Nancy was talking about are hashtags. You are non-committed, but going beyond just your network contacts into a pseudo type of group I suppose...like flicking channels. I like your galaxy metaphor. I guess my ad-hoc groups post weighted a lot on the type of ad-hoc group that needs to get something done. They can be made up on-the-fly and invite people from teams, CoPs, whatever, to come together and work on something (a collaborative group). I agree networks to connect, form communities, which may spur new teams (business areas)...and you tie this into technology so it can happen smoothly with (less pot holes) Margaret Wheatley talks about this... Using emergence to take social innovation to scale http://www.berkana.org/pdf/emergence_web.pdf http://leadershiplearning.org/blog/claire-reinelt/2007-09-09/networks-and-communities-practice-what-difference New tools are always said to align with strategy, well I like the idea of these tools as a ground to breed things back into strategy...forming a new team because people found each other on a network, formed a community to solidify their interest is a good naturalistic breeding ground. I'm going to link to your post in my next post about CoPs Lawrence,

Great to meet you!

One thing, Twitter hashtags don’t have members, it’s a social slice/grouping. Are people that put money in a buskers hat members of a group…they are a slice of people that have this one thing in common. The difference with Twitter hashtags is you can connect (know about/ambiently aware) to those people.

It really doesn’t matter, it’s all semantics.

But when you add the level of tie to these different entities (networks, communities, teams), as you have done, it makes sense that the sweet spot Nancy was talking about are hashtags. You are non-committed, but going beyond just your network contacts into a pseudo type of group I suppose…like flicking channels.

I like your galaxy metaphor.

I guess my ad-hoc groups post weighted a lot on the type of ad-hoc group that needs to get something done. They can be made up on-the-fly and invite people from teams, CoPs, whatever, to come together and work on something (a collaborative group).

I agree networks to connect, form communities, which may spur new teams (business areas)…and you tie this into technology so it can happen smoothly with (less pot holes)

Margaret Wheatley talks about this…
Using emergence to take social innovation to scale
http://www.berkana.org/pdf/emergence_web.pdf
http://leadershiplearning.org/blog/claire-reinelt/2007-09-09/networks-and-communities-practice-what-difference

New tools are always said to align with strategy, well I like the idea of these tools as a ground to breed things back into strategy…forming a new team because people found each other on a network, formed a community to solidify their interest is a good naturalistic breeding ground.

I’m going to link to your post in my next post about CoPs

]]> by: Lawrence Liu http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2009/08/07/enterprise-social-networks-and-ad-hoc-groups/#comment-33028 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:25:05 +0100 http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2009/08/07/enterprise-social-networks-and-ad-hoc-groups/#comment-33028 John, your example of a Twitter hashtag is what I'd call an ad-hoc group whose members have ultra-weak ties (in this case, just a common hashtag in their tweets). This type of group sits in the space between networks (potential ties) and communities (well defined weak ties). If a community was analogous to a galaxy, then ad-hoc groups are the cosmic dust clouds that can either clump together to eventually form a galaxy/community or dissolve because the ultra-weak ties don't get any stronger. For more of my thoughts re: networks vs. communities vs. teams, see my blog post at http://bit.ly/PHQ1L http://twitter.com/LLiu John, your example of a Twitter hashtag is what I’d call an ad-hoc group whose members have ultra-weak ties (in this case, just a common hashtag in their tweets). This type of group sits in the space between networks (potential ties) and communities (well defined weak ties). If a community was analogous to a galaxy, then ad-hoc groups are the cosmic dust clouds that can either clump together to eventually form a galaxy/community or dissolve because the ultra-weak ties don’t get any stronger.

For more of my thoughts re: networks vs. communities vs. teams, see my blog post at http://bit.ly/PHQ1L

http://twitter.com/LLiu

]]> by: Luis Benitez http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2009/08/07/enterprise-social-networks-and-ad-hoc-groups/#comment-33022 Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:08:39 +0100 http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2009/08/07/enterprise-social-networks-and-ad-hoc-groups/#comment-33022 Activity-Centric computing, I believe, has been instrumental in helping me get out of email jail. Just 2 years ago I remember I used to receive 100+ emails/day. Now, it's down to ~20 emails/day. And the work that used to happen via email (in a slow fashion), now gets done a LOT faster as people casually stumble upon our group space and contribute their ideas. And best of all it has offline support. Let us know how your organization keeps going through this transformation. I'm eager to know. Activity-Centric computing, I believe, has been instrumental in helping me get out of email jail. Just 2 years ago I remember I used to receive 100+ emails/day. Now, it’s down to ~20 emails/day. And the work that used to happen via email (in a slow fashion), now gets done a LOT faster as people casually stumble upon our group space and contribute their ideas.

And best of all it has offline support. Let us know how your organization keeps going through this transformation. I’m eager to know.

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