Network awareness: social network search, innovation and productivity in organisations

Social network analysis for technology-enhanced learning: review and future directions

“…It can be used to promote awareness, give feedback and prompt reflection. An example of this provides research by Steiny and Oinas-Kukkonen (2007), who analyse interactions and collaborations between employees in order to support managers for better organisational decision making (regarding constitution of teams, and distribution of responsibilities). Jo (2009) showed that feeding back the identification of communities of practice positively influenced the interactions in a social network of programmers.…”

Understanding personal learning networks: Their structure, content and the networking skills needed to optimally use them

“…A clear value for professionals emerged: they design and navigate their network to bring them the most professional and educational benefit at each stage of their career (Dulworth, 2006;Cross, et al, 2003;Steiny and Oinas-Kukkonen, 2007). They undertake specific activities for networking, such as joining (online and face-to-face) professional associations, participating in conferences, workshops, seminars or networking events to meet new people or to reconfirm existing ties (Bauman, 2008;DeLeskey, 2003;Valenza and Johnson, 2008).…”

Networks and Persuasive Messages

“…Networks can be used as part of the description of the target and source of a message. It has been previously argued that network awareness, having knowledge of how networks affect behavior and perception, combined with knowledge of the networks in some part of society such as an organization or region, is important for innovation and productivity [Steiny and Oinas-Kukkonen 2007]. This paper expands on this by introducing the concept of "social context."…”