Comments on: Weak Ties and Diversity in Social Networks

By: Talking About CGM » House of Naked

Talking About CGM » House of Naked — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:01:48 +0000

[...] I haven’t fully formed this idea, but after reading The Strength of Weak Ties (PDF via Bokardo), it’s something you can expect to read about in the near [...]

By: Mess of thoughts on effective mass brand communication using social media (kind of) : herbsawyer.com

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:35:21 +0000

[...] said to. I’ve been looking into The Strength of Weak Ties and this post that discusses ‘Weak Ties and Diversity in Social Networks‘. I have been pondering both the effect of weak vs. strong ties and the language we use [...]

By: imnetz.org » Blog Archive » Diversity in Sozialen Netzwerken

imnetz.org » Blog Archive » Diversity in Sozialen Netzwerken — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:41:18 +0000

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By: gever

gever — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:19:28 +0000

I’m not sure I buy the idea that strong ties, which are “utilized frequently” actually need “more management” than the weak ties. In looking at my own social networks, it seems that the stronger the tie, the more self-sustaining and self-repairing it is.

Links to external groups, while not requiring much individual support (look at a business relationship between two people at different businesses), superficially seem to require very little support, but if you include the effort exerted by the businesses themselves then the calculated costs of the relationship becomes much larger.

By: Codex | Redeeming Social Networking

Codex | Redeeming Social Networking — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:55:22 +0000

[...] recently, knowledge itself has been recognized as something that could be leveraged through your Social Network, something [...]

By: Social Networks and Prediction Markets « Scotsman on a Horse

Social Networks and Prediction Markets « Scotsman on a Horse — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:17:52 +0000

[...] Weak Ties and Diversity in Social Networks - Bokardo What struck me about Anne and Andrew’s pieces was the implicit idea of the value of diversity. Neither mentioned this explicitly, but for those familiar with James Surowiecki’s work The Wisdom of Crowds, diversity is crucial to wisdom, and thus problem solving. Weak ties helps explain how we continually introduce diversity within our social groups, by periodically leveraging those relationships with people outside our close-knit social networks. Published in: [...]

By: Herb

Herb — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 04:09:44 +0000

Joshua,

I have bee reading Herd and have been thinking something like this…but your post articulated it perfectly.

I’ve been thinking about how we move around in weak ties and how much weak ties effects drive our decisions and thoughts. While we will always want our main group to value us, is the main groups opinion on the information we bring in more or less impressionable on us than what effects we receive across the weak links?

Then again, its late and I might be rambling. Good post, look forward to reading your blog.

By: James Yu

James Yu — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 05:39:56 +0000

This is exactly why I like LinkedIn Answers. You get to ask tough questions that not only your strong ties see, but also your weak ties. For people that have enough connections on LinkedIn, the Answers feature is a direct application of the principles put forth in Anne’s posts.

It’s also very valuable to browse through the Answers within your network, since you get to see what problems your weak ties are currently dealing with.

By: Ryan Cairns

Ryan Cairns — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:28:11 +0000

Wow, you always seem to right the most interesting articles. Keep up the good research and unique insights.

By: » Weak Ties and Diversity in Social Networks

» Weak Ties and Diversity in Social Networks — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:25:24 +0000

[...] Truitt Zelenka has a nice post: Weak Ties for Social Problem Solving in Enterprise 2.0, touching on a subject being discussed more and more these days: weak ties. She suggests that one [...]

By: Britt Raybould

Britt Raybould — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:10:38 +0000

Many of my best ideas for my last corporate job came from bouncing things around with my weak ties. These people had nothing to do with the industry, or in some cases, my actual job function, but their insight proved invaluable.
However, because these were weak ties, they didn’t necessarily relate to each other, except through me, the common point. It always felt like I was working harder than necessary to make connections between the insights. More seemed possible, but no obvious way (at least to me) was readily available. I’ve always thought I could do more if I could figure out a way to make the connections easier to grasp.