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10 Nov 09

Dunbar’s Number and the Future of Communications

  • The asymmetrical and casual nature of social networks is allowing humans to engage in what Robin Dunbar has termed “social grooming” with increasingly larger groups — without investing increasingly larger amounts of time.
  • Dunbar argues that the number of people with whom humans can maintain a relationship is a function of neocortical size.
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Seth Godin Misunderstands Dunbar's Number, And Stubs His Toe - /Message

  • Dunbar's Number represents the largest stable social group, 150 people more or less, where all the members not only know each other, but understand how each member is related to the others, and the nature of their social interactions.
  • Our limit is the 150-to-the-150th connections involved in a tight and bounded social network.

Seth's Blog: Dunbar's Number isn't just a number, it's the law

  • Dunbar postulated that the typical human being can only have 150 friends. One hundred fifty people in the tribe.

How to Find In-House Experts at Big Companies - WSJ.com

  • But there are gaping holes in this approach. For starters, big companies tend to be dynamic organizations, in a constant state of flux, and few commit the resources necessary to constantly review and update the credentials of often rapidly changing rolls of experts.


    Second, users of these systems need more than a list of who knows what among employees. They also need to gauge the experts' "softer" qualities, such as trustworthiness, communication skills and willingness to help. It isn't easy for a centrally managed database to offer opinions in these areas without crossing delicate political and cultural boundaries.

  • A search engine that mines internal blogs, for example, where workers post updates and field queries about their work, will help searchers judge for themselves who is an expert in a given field.
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Colonizing the Outer Rings : Andrew McAfee’s Blog

  • The conclusion I’ve arrived at recently is easy to state: Enterprise 2.0 is most valuable at the outer rings of the target.
  • I say this for two main reasons. First, prior to the arrival of ESSPs the IT toolkit available at the outer rings was both small and ineffective.
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23 Oct 09

Mozilla's Raindrop: An Open Conversation Aggregator

"Raindrop's mission is to "make it enjoyable to participate in conversations from people you care about, whether the conversations are in email, on twitter, a friend's blog or as part of a social networking site.""

www.readwriteweb.com/...n_and_smart_conversation_a.php - Preview

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