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SNA study of Wikipatterns.com

ChiefTech

Laurie Lock Lee from Optimice has published the results of a social network analysis (SNA) study of the Wikipatterns community (pdf). Laurie used SNA to examine the value of participation, health and value of new relationships of this particular community, using a combination of a survey and " wiki mining " to gather data.

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NewCo New York 2014: My Chairman’s Picks To Visit

John Battelle's Searchblog

Both are run by great colleagues of mine – so I already know a lot about their businesses. I hope to learn that and more at Pave’s session, which includes case studies on movement-building around gun safety, the Syrian humanitarian crisis, marriage equality, climate, and more. Runners up : Simulmedia and Dstillery.

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Establishing Records Management at Brandeis—The First Eighteen Months

Brandeis Records Manager

It begins with fact-finding: gathering information, learning the institution, meeting with stakeholders from various functions. We held over fifty stakeholder meetings between October of 2013 and April of 2015. Most of these engagements were outcomes of the initial stakeholder meetings, but several came to us by word of mouth.