Network Power

[Graham Durant-Law]

Over the last five years I have attended well over 30 conferences, and I’ve presented at all but two of them. This year, however, I’ve rationalised my conference attendance and targeted new ones. I attended PMOZ 2010, mainly because I picked up a PMI award and it was being presented at the conference. I hadn’t been to a conference with a project management theme for a while so I found it quite worthwhile.

This week I provided a keynote address to an i2 Group User’s Conference 2010. The title of my presentation was “Sometimes a Picture is Only Worth a Few Words! ”. I built the keynote around a blog-post of the same name, which I did at the beginning of the year. To it I added the theme of Network Nirvana – a concept I read about in Marc Smith’s book “Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World ”. (I’ll provide a book review in a coming blog-post). Network Nirvana is achieved when every node is visible, every node’s degree is countable, every tie can be followed from source to destination, and clusters and outliers are identifiable.

The i2 Group User’s Conference 2010 was particularly interesting because I had not previously attended a conference which had a network analysis theme, albeit a theme centred mainly on policing and intelligence. As would be expected it featured the i2 Group’s product suite, with an emphasis on Analyst’s Notebook. The conference featured presentations on:

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