Social Network Theory, the Dunbar Number, Connectors, Mavens, Persuaders, the Strong and Weak Ties and the Scale Free Networks

The CCK09 assignment for this week was: “……in particular, share resources on networks that you encounter in your browsing this week.”
CCK09 – Social Network Theory:
- Introduction to Networks
- The Dunbar Number
- The Tipping Point – Connectors, Mavens and Persuaders
- Granovetter – Strong and Weak Ties
- Small World and Scale Free Networks
- Popular Social Networks
- [...]

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Related Posts: My Twitter Conversations

This is a list of Twitter Conversations I had using the Twitter Open Messaging tool:
- Twitter Conversation: Introducing New Learning 2.0 Tools in your Organization
- Using Twitter and Delicious to Teach About Videoconferencing and Online Community Management
- Using Twitter to Teach How to Find New LinkedIn Connections

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Related Posts: Networking and Connecting With Twitter

List of Related Posts: Networking and Connecting With Twitter
- List of Favorite Twitter Blog Posts
- Honored to be Nominated for an Education Shorty Award
- Your Twitter Home – Don’t Miss Tweets From Your Friends
- Connectivism, What Type of Twitter User Am I?
- Twitter Conversation: Introducing New Learning 2.0 Tools in [...]

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Related Posts: Online Community Management

Related posts from this blog about Building, Managing and the Natural Lifecycle of Online Communities:
- Building and Managing Online Communities
- Natural Lifecycle Of Online Communities and Social Networks, CCK08 Connectivism
- How Can New Edubloggers Develop Their Own Communities?
- Del.icio.us Networking Features
- Asynchronous Conferencing Systems on the Web for Education and Training [...]

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Honored to be Nominated for an Education Shorty Award

It all started on Dec 28th when I was checking my Twitter: I found these 2 tweets:
- shortyawards @emapey, you were nominated by @nycrican2 for a #education Shorty Award http://bit.ly/hGIo 8:23 PM Dec 28th, 2008
- shortyawards @emapey, you were nominated by @buthaina (and 1 other) for a #education Shorty Award http://bit.ly/hGIo 8:40 PM Dec [...]

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Using Twitter to Teach How to Find New LinkedIn Connections

This is my Twitter conversation with Anne Mirtschin. I wanted to explain to her my strategy to find groups and new connections using the LinkedIn social network
#murcha: @emapey2 How do you personally use Linkedin. I just updated mine yesterday with my profile.
about 13 hours ago · Reply · View Tweet
#emapey2: @murcha Use LinkedIn Search to [...]

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Your Twitter Home – Don’t Miss Tweets From Your Friends

I think there are still many Twitter users missing some tweets so I created this mini tutorial to teach those using Twitter from the Web how not to miss the most important tweets, those @tweets sent to them.
Login to Twitter Here. You will be redirected to your Twitter Home page, where you can read the [...]

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Save and Share Bookmarks, Start Blogging and Only Then Use Twitter

Great post from Steve Matthews, Law Firm Web Strategy :
If you are using social media to participate and build a reputation, you need to back it up with some substance. And though some may disagree, my take is that substance frequently requires more that 140 characters.
Lani Ritter Hall blogged Where to begin and Adam [...]

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My CCK08 Connectivism Online Course Workspace

This is a photo of my CCK08 Connectivism online course workspace.
I work online, full time, from home.
Louise Côté (Blanche Maynard) had the great idea of creating the Flickr CCK08 Workspaces Pool
She wrote:
Can the sharing of work environment help build trust and foster deeper connections?
That’s the idea behind the formation of this group. Connecting [...]

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Connectivism, What Type of Twitter User Am I?

Thanks to ggrosseck’s Bookmarks on Delicious I became aware of a tool that shows my Twitter activity stats and connections.
TwitterFriends statistics for emapey2
TwitterFriends statistics for emapey
This tool shows replies FROM my @emapey and @emapey2 and replies TO my @emapey and @emapey2 accounts.
This is another very useful tool which provides data about your connections. You [...]

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