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The focused organization theory of social ties proposes that the structure of human social networks can be arranged around extra-network foci, which can include shared physical spaces such as homes, workplaces, restaurants, and so on. Until now, this has been difficult to investigate on a large scale, but the huge volume of data available from online location-based social services now makes it possible to examine the friendships and mobility of many thousands of people, and to investigate the relationship between meetings at places and the structure of the social network. In this paper, we analyze a large dataset from Foursquare, the most popular online location-based social network. We examine the properties of city-based social networks, finding that they have common structural properties, and that the category of place where two people meet has very strong influence on the likelihood of their being friends. Inspired by these observations in combination with the focused organization theory, we then present a model to generate city-level social networks, and show that it produces networks with the structural properties seen in empirical data.
A place-focused model for social networks in cities http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.2565 Via Complexity Digest
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Like section on identifying levers for change.
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Buzz Holling talks about his work on socio-ecological adaptive cycles of resilience, and suggests that crises are vital for maintaining healthy networks and diverse ecosystems
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I've really been influenced by his work.
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See on Scoop.it - Nieuw Werken As I've shared here before, about a week ago I participated in the Social Now event where I got the opportunity to finally meet face-to-face Stowe Boyd, one of the be...
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Business bloggers at Harvard Business Review discuss a variety of business topics including managing people, innovation, leadership, and more.
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Don't Go Back to School: A Handbook for Learning Anything [Kio Stark] on Amazon.com. *FREE* super saver shipping on qualifying offers. Here is a radical truth: school doesn’t have a monopoly on learning.
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Just ordered this book...looks intriguing.
june holley's comment,
August 26, 2013 8:44 AM
Is really about how we can learn collaboratively outside of schools.
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This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: Learning Theory, zone of proximal development The area of capabilities that learners can exhibit with support from a teacher., Montessori constructivism, Lave & Wenger... Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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Maximizing learning is key to an effective network approach.
Will Gourley's curator insight,
May 31, 2013 8:02 PM
Another must have tool in the kit for teachers and education theorists alike. 
Sonia Thomas's curator insight,
June 1, 2013 1:52 AM
I appreciate being able to see the relationships. As a student of education, I sometimes get bogged down by the divisions between philosophy and science. This will be a nice tool to sort the data in my mind.
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By Kristen Barney, MA, MSOD We sometimes hear about an organization that came through grave difficulties and became a success story. Even after hearing the story, we may not really understand how t...
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An online magazine and community about sharing. Get sharing news plus tools, tips and how tos for a better life through sharing.
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Need great networks for sharing to really work!
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August 20, 2013 7:43 AM
You can learn so much about self-organizing by browsing this site
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Juliet Fox, Partner at Future iQ Partners, does a short description of Social Network Mapping and Analysis for innovative, collaborative, creative and resili...
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Weaving Smart Networks (#Opensourcechange Network Weaver Handbook http://t.co/93H9ObHQop)
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Controlling self-organizing systems is challenging because the system responds to the controller. Here, we develop a model that captures the essential self-organizing mechanisms of Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld (BTW) sandpiles on networks, a self-organized critical (SOC) system. This model enables studying a simple control scheme that determines the frequency of cascades and that shapes systemic risk. We show that optimal strategies exist for generic cost functions and that controlling a subcritical system may drive it to criticality. This approach could enable controlling other self-organizing systems.
Controlling Self-Organizing Dynamics on Networks Using Models that Self-Organize Pierre-André Noël, Charles D. Brummitt, and Raissa M. D’Souza Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 078701 (2013) http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.078701
Selected for a Viewpoint http://physics.aps.org/articles/v6/90 Via Complexity Digest
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Networks have been a buzzword for the last decade, but how much does the philanthropy world understand about them and how to get the best out of them, ask Harald Katzmair and Chet Tchozewski
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What will the 21st Century organizations aspire to?. Topic: Social Business
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Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences: The state of the art [David Byrne, Gillian Callaghan] on Amazon.com. *FREE* super saver shipping on qualifying offers.
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Anyone read this?
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just got mine
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Researchers show that plants can communicate the need to protect themselves from attack by aphids by making use of an underground network of fungi.
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We can learn a lot about networks from the rest of nature!
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We need to deploy the cascading effect on innovation. Often we fail to understand our role in contributing to innovation; we need a ‘cascading effect’. For me the “cascading effect” for innovation is...
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I think self-organizing speeds up these cascading effects, especially when people are involved in multiple collaborations and spread breakthroughs and innovations.
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Pulic spaces are critical for informal network building, running in to people, etc.
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Yochai Benkler in an interview with Kaja Scheliga, doctoral researcher at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. More Information: ht...
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University of Texas at Austin News
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Lots of interesting stuff here!