Musings on Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Wednesday, April 02, 2003Jon Lebkowsky reminds us that in regard to social software and social network analysis as applied to computer mediated community, we stand tall on the shoulders of others:
I don't want to get into a "been there, done that" rant, because the new thinking and innovation around blogs is great, but the point is that there's already a bunch of experience and documentation around social networks, and these are worth studying.
He goes on to point out that the apparent success of Ryze and Meetup can be attributed, in part, to the face that they are largely extensions and facilitators of face-to-face interactions. That is, they represent embedded relationships.
We've been working hard to allow our Pioneer Entrepreneurs network build up from the circle of associates in which our members are already embedded in their "real world" networks. I've found the theoretical and pragmatic observations of Uwe Matzat to be particularly helpful.
