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New Directions in Social Networks and Business |
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The current "social networking" applications use more or less sophosticated methods of searching through links of acquaintences to find paths from one person to another. The primary purpose of this is sales or sales related activity like finding a job (selling your labor) or finding a date. Understanding the structure of the networks can tell us so much more and icrease innovation, help organizations work better, help create better products and much more. NOTE: There will be a conteninental breakfast and a lunch. The Institute for Social Network Analysis of the Economy and swissnex are launching a mini-conference Feb. 14 with key speakers the SNA field. In addition Stanford graduate students from Mark Granovetter's Silicon Valley Network Analysis Project and Woody Powell's group present hands-on SNA projects. WHEN Monday, February 14, 2004, 8:30am - 5pm WHERE swissnex, 730 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA 94111 (between Washington and Jackson Streets*) *nearby parking at 621 Sansome, 622 Washington, 800 Kearny, 170 Columbus, among others PROGRAM 8:30 - 9:15 - open door & breakfast 9:15 - 10:00 - welcome by swissnex - Don Steiny, Institute for Social Network Analysis of the Economy outline of the day and an introductory talk about "New Directions in Social Networks" 10:00 - 11:00 - "SNA and business" by Harald Katzmair, FAS Research, Austria 11:00 - 12:00 - Panel Discussion: Woody Powell, Stanford Univ., Andrew Hargadon, UC Davis - Networks and Innovation Gerald Barnett, UCSC - Technology transfer Harald Katzmair, FAS Consulting, Austria Moderator: Don Steiny 12:00 - 1:00 - Lunch 1:00 - 2:00 - "Innonvation and Social Networks" by Andrew Hargadon, UC Davis, author of "How Breakthroughs Happen" 2:00 - 2:30 - "Social Networks and Tech Transfer Part 1" by Mick Stadler, Seges Capital 2:30 - 3:00 - "Social Networks and Tech Transfer" by Gerald Barnett, UC Santa Cruz 3:30 - 4:00 - (Kaisa Snellman) Networks of control and power in Finland 4:00 - 4:30 - "Creating Network Maps from Relational Data" by Jurgen ?, ?, Austria 4:30 - 5:00 - "Network Maps from Public Data" by Sean Everton, Stanford University |
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