Featured Workshop COINs 2010 Blog: Basics of Social Network Analysis: Network Analysis 101

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This is an interactive workshop for social network newbies to the field of Social Network Analysis including a brief history, the basic vocabulary, professional associations, software tools, example studies across multiple disciplines, and cutting edge developments and trends.

Instructor: Prof. Ken Riopelle, Wayne State University, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

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The COINs 2010 conference, Oct. 7–9, 2010, is presented by I-Open and the COINs Collaborative, an initiative of the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Wayne State University College of Engineering's Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Collective Intelligence. The collaborative builds open knowledge networks to advance the emerging science of collaboration for research and industry competitive advantage. Hosted by SCAD. For more information about the COINs 2010 conference, visit http://www.coins2010.com

COINs2010: Conversations in Health Care

 

 

 

The 2nd Annual International COINs2010 Conference  is coming to Savannah, Ga., USA  | Oct. 7-9

REGISTER ONLINE at COINs2010.com

Registration rate is $180 (US Dollars) and includes pre-conference full day Coolhunting Workshop and Condor three-month trial.

 

FEATURED KEYNOTE SPEAKER

SCAD presents second COINs conference with keynote speaker Jesse Dylan

Filmmaker unleashes creativity to make open-source healthcare a reality

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FEATURED WORKSHOP

Basics of social network analysis: Network Analysis 101

An interactive workshop for social network newbies to the field of Social Network Analysis including a brief history, the basic vocabulary, professional associations, software tools, example studies across multiple disciplines and cutting-edge developments and trends.

Professor Ken Riopelle, Wayne State University, department of industrial and systems engineering, instructor

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FEATURED COINs2010 ABSTRACT

Measuring Social Network Structure of Clinical Teams Caring for Patients with Complex Conditions

Authors: Francesca Grippa (University of Salento), Margaret Palazzolo, Andrea Booth, Stacy Rechner, John Bucuvalas (Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center), Julia Gluesing (Wayne State University), Peter Gloor (MIT Center for Collective Intelligence)

Social network analysis suggests that the relationships and ties among team members impact productivity across multiple industries. Complex health conditions require effective interdisciplinary teams to achieve best outcomes.

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FEATURED INTERVIEW

The Center for Health Care Quality at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Builds Models of Collaborative Health Care

Dr. Peter Margolis, M.D., Ph.D., Co-Director, Center for Health Care Quality, Cincinnati, Ohio, shares his passion to improve quality systems health care delivery for children, his view of health care systems, and the value strengthening social network practice, mapping and analysis offers to industry innovation.

WATCH THE INTERVIEW on the COINs Conference Livestream Channel!


FEATURED CONVERSATION

A Civic Perspective: Health Care and Justice

Representatives of two Ohio health care advocate networks review the primary challenge in U.S. and world health care: access. Their interview prepares for a civic conversation to identify business innovation opportunities for science, technology and design.

WATCH THE CONVERSATION on Vimeo!

 

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Networking 101 | Collaborative Change | Bodystorming | Coolfarming | Service Design | Virtual Global Teaming

 

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Special conference rates are available through the COINs2010 conference website.

 

 

 

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Register to join us face-to-face or online for live streaming of conference programming!

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Keynotes presented by research and industry thought leaders in filmmaking, technology, and design.

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Skills training workshops in social network mapping and analysis, collaborative and virtual teaming, social innovation, and design.

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Interactive research paper presentations in cutting edge industry discovery.

Plus lots of time to network and connect to new opportunities!

Click through to the COINs 2010 Conference site to learn and connect!

Join us at COINs 2010, Oct 7-9, at Savannah College of Art & Design in Savannah, Georgia!

SCAD presents second COINs conference with keynote speaker Jesse Dylan

I-Open is a proud co-sponsor of the Oct 7-9, 2010 collaborative innovation networks COINs 2010 Conference.

The COINs 2010 Conference is a gathering of research and industry leaders who seek to identify and connect the latest insights and innovations in the emerging Science of Collaboration.

The I-Open community offers insights from civic, business, government, and academic leaders focused on health care, energy, land, food, and water.

Together, the COINs 2010 and I-Open communities share information and knowledge to strengthen creativity and accelerate innovation for competitive enterprise advantage.

I-Open invites you to connect to these networked communities to advance creativity, communications, and collaboration in your work in education, economic, and workforce development.

We encourage you to:  

  • sign in to www.coins2010.com and become a member of the COINs 2010 Friendship Map to begin building your virtual network, 
  • register to attend the conference and build your face-to-face networks and,
  • experience the creative, collaborative culture of the Savannah College of Art & Design in Savannah, Georgia.

You can read and download copies of COINs 2010 conference research and industry abstracts at Swarm Creativity on Scribd:

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The COINs 2010 conference, Oct. 7–9, 2010 is presented in collaboration by I-Open and the COINs Collaborative, an initiative of the Savannah College of Art and Design, Wayne State University College of Engineering, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Collective Intelligence. The collaborative builds open knowledge networks to advance the emerging science of collaboration for research and industry competitive advantage. For more information and to register for the COINs 2010 conference, visit www.coins2010.com

COINs2010 Conversations in Collaboration: Global Teaming

 

 

 

The 2nd Annual International COINs2010 Conference  is coming to Savannah, Ga., USA  | Oct. 7-9

CONNECT ON THE NETWORK MAP

Visualize your network by registering on the COINs2010 website. Connect with your acquaintances and friends and grow your network into a galaxy.


WORKSHOP HIGHLIGHT: Creating Conditions for Effective Global Teaming

There are many reasons why companies form global teams to work internationally and interdependently towards a common goal.  Global teams can be created to develop global strategies, or to work locally to execute these strategies, or both.  Multinational corporations often create global research and development teams to benefit from site-specific scientific expertise that is not available in one location, but is spread around the world.  Still, other companies create global teams in specific functional areas, like sales and marketing, and then have representatives of that function from around the world collaborate in teams.  This enables the organization to benefit from a diversity of perspectives and services that can match or fulfill the needs of a global client, wherever that client might be located.  No matter what the reason for the formation of a global team or what form the team takes, leaders and team members must address the complexity of global teamwork by architecting new ways of collaborating. These factors must be considered and managed in designing and forming global teams to perform successfully.  Stakeholders, team leaders and team members can actively participate in creating conditions prior to the start-up of a team that can provide and enhance the likelihood that the team will achieve its objective. view more workshops.

 

REGISTER ONLINE at COINs2010.com

Registration rate is $180 (US Dollars) and includes pre-conference full day Coolhunting Workshop and Condor 3 month-trial.

 

 

This is a COINs2010 DESIGN ETHOS Intersection Event

 

 


Things are really heating up for the COINs 2010 Conference in Savannah, Georgia!

Get Connected  -- Log in to COINs 2010 and find yourself on the Connect Map, an emerging open knowledge network of research and industry leaders from around the world. Connect to people and ideas advancing innovation for creative competitive advantage. Go Here.

Log In and Register! We look forward to learning more about your important work in education, economic, and workforce development for communities and regions. Go Here.

Industry Topics included -- health care, design, transportation, creativity, education, technology, government, business development, and media. Go Here.

Skills Training -- Conference registrants receive a no-charge, half-day pre-conference Coolhunting Training Session led by Galaxy Advisors team and Peter Gloor, Chief Creative Officer and Founder Galaxy Advisors, and research scientist MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. All participants receive a complimentary six month trial of Condor, the dynamic semantic social network analysis tool. Go Here.

Practitioner Workshops -- Join us to learn about global teaming, social network analysis, innovation diffusion, and new practices in collaboration to accelerate your efforts to build enterprise. You will be joined by global thought leaders, students, and industry practitioners. Go Here.

We look forward to participating in new conversations with you about creativity and collaboration to advance business development!

See you online and in Savannah!

COINs2010: Conversations in Collaboration Savannah, Georgia

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I-Open is a proud co-sponsor of the COINs 2010 Conference Oct 7-9 in Savannah, Georgia, connecting research and industry leaders to advance the emerging science of collaboration.

 Register here.

Keynote speakers and paper presentations will be streamed live featuring cutting edge research in science, design, and technology with an emphasis on creativity, government, health care, energy, education, government, and transportation.

 Register here.

Workshops focus on practices in collaboration, open platforms, and team building - all immediately applicable skills for leaders in education, economic, and workforce development.

Register for

  • social network practice, projects, and tool proficiency
  • collaboration skills
  • service design thinking
  • collective action and social change
  • collaborative global teaming
  • strengthening habits of idea creation

 Register here.

In addition, COINs 2010 Conference is cross collaborating with the Design Ethos Conference (program) resulting in a serendipitous gathering of global minds in filmmaking, technology, design, and sustainability.

Check in now to the COINs 2010 Conference site - an online destination designed by SCAD designer, Amit Bapat - to explore and connect your social networks into a deeper, wider, global COINs2010.

Get started to become more creative! 

 Register here.

 

COINs2010: Conversations in Collaboration









 


  

 

The 2nd Annual International COINs2010 Conference  is coming to Savannah, Ga, USA  | October 7-9

REGISTER ONLINE at COINs2010.com

Registration rate is $180 (US Dollars) and includes pre-conference full day Coolhunting Workshop and Condor 3 month-trial.

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Jesse Dylan, CEO and Creative Director, Freeform

Sandy Pentland, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Richard Buchanan, Professor, Case Western Reserve University


REGISTER FOR WORKSHOPS

Networking 101 | Collaborative Change | Bodystorming | Coolfarming | Service Design | Virtual Global Teaming

 

BOOK ACCOMMODATIONS

Special Conference Rates are available through the COINs2010 Conference Website.

 

This is a DESIGN ETHOS Intersection Event

 

 

 

Join us for COINs 2010 Oct 7-9 in Savannah, Georgia!

I-Open is a proud co-sponsor of the COINs 2010 Conference, connecting research and industry leaders to advance the emerging science of collaboration.

Keynote speakers and paper presentations will be streamed live featuring cutting edge research in science, design, and technology with an emphasis on creativity, government, health care, energy, education, government, and transportation.

Workshops focus on practices in collaboration, open platforms, and team building - all immediately applicable skills for leaders in education, economic, and workforce development.

Register for

  • social network practice, projects, and tool proficiency
  • collaboration skills
  • service design thinking
  • collective action and social change
  • collaborative global teaming
  • strengthening habits of idea creation

In addition, COINs 2010 Conference is cross collaborating with the Design Ethos Conference (program) resulting in a serendipitous gathering of global minds in filmmaking, technology, design, and sustainability.

Check in now to the COINs 2010 Conference site - an online destination designed by SCAD designer, Amit Bapat - to explore and connect your social networks into a deeper, wider, global COINs2010.

Get started and become more creative at COINs 2010!

Conference information and online registration is here.

Begin reading COINs 2010 Abstracts at Swarm Creativity on Scribd.

Learn more about Design Engineer, Amit Bapat's BioSand Filter Project, here.

 


What's the value of one white paper?

Yesterday I received an unexpected e-mail greeting from a government IT leader based in Australia. While researching the Internet to lead a group of colleagues in a strategic project planning initiative, he came across the attached COINs 2009 conference presentation and offered these comments:

In "COINS: An economic development tool for education, economic and workforce development in Open Source Economic Development" the concepts are beautiful; if my workplace engaged in just 20% of them we would double communications engagement subsequently boosting productivity. Thank you for your paper Betsey, I am very pleased you wrote it."

Stories like these attest to why sharing on the web is a good idea. You can never know who or when the information you've shared will be useful. In networks, shared information has reciprocal value for anyone with initiative.

Serendipitous connections often begin with an element of collaborative leadership. For example, had it not been suggested to me to consider submitting a paper in 2009, I'm not sure I would have.

COINs 2010 conference brings a second year of sharing insights and innovations into the workings of creativity and collaboration. I hope you will join us for new conversations in Savannah and on the web - and definitely consider submitting a paper in 2011! 

Who knows what opportunity will bump into you?

- Betsey Merkel, I-Open

Learn more about COINs 2010 Conference here.

Newsletter: COINs2010 Conference welcomes you!

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This is the first COINs 2010 Conference newsletter!

I-Open is a proud co-sponsor of the collaborative innovation networks COINs 2010 Conference, Oct 7-9 hosted by Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD), Savannah, Georgia.

COINs 2010 is an example of research and industry leaders collaborating for a purpose greater than any single entity. In this case, it is to explore and share insights into the emerging science of collaboration.

Good collaboration skill are the key to building strategic networks to advance innovation in education, economic, and workforce development.

Are you associated with a university or business? How do you collaborate and for what purpose? Add your comments and stories here!

Let us know what you think of the Newsletter. We'd like to hear from you!

Investing in Swarm Creativity

The COINs 2010 conference, Oct 7-9, 2010 hosted at the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) in Savannah, GA, shares the insights and innovations of research and industry leaders in the Science of Collaboration.

Join us! Here are your next steps:

  • Register for the conference - we'd love to connect with you!
  • Submit a Research or Industry Thought Paper by Aug 12 less than 300 words- this is a neat opportunity to hone your idea and improve!
  • Sign up for the Coolhunting Academy free for conference registrants and includes a complimentary 3-month trial of Cool Trends 2.0 - (!)
  • Check it all out at: http://www.coins2010.com

More about Swarm Creativity and the Science of Collaboration:

Swarm Creativity powers the COINs 2010 community and with it the Science of Collaboration. Conference participants present reports focused on creativity, communication, and collaboration from many different disciplines and industries.

The swarm creativity map, above, is an ecosystem for entrepreneurs, businesses, organizations, and governments to cultivate a culture that is creative, cool, and fun!

Today, civic leaders need to work on many different projects simultaneously and at many different levels to optimize initiatives in open, connected global markets. The swarm creativity map offers a heuristic model for thinking across categories of investment in balanced systems. And, it's transferable and extensible.

Maps act as filters, provide a sense of logistics, and encourage more than one area of attention to be held at once. With that we can begin to think in terms of the value of network connectivity and systemic relationships.

The map identifies how swarm creativity as a discipline can be strengthened by investments in new practices and tools.

One tool, Cool Trends 2.0, is trend finding software developed by http://www.GalaxyAdvisors.com. It is designed to provide investment metrics for web 3.0, the semantic web. By integrating network mapping tools in enterprise initiatives, we can begin to get a clearer picture of innovation in networks, strengthen social behaviors that cultivate collaboration, and drive competitive network productivity.

Attention to new practices, such as meritocracy - an element of swarm creativity - establish good habits of sharing that nurture trusted relationships and cultivate collaborative environments.

Frameworks like this one work well in complexity. They offer a starting point for entrepreneurs to make important cognitive shifts required to think in terms of networks and areas of investment. With this, work becomes efficient and effective.

You can learn more in the book, "Swarm Creativity" by Professor Peter Gloor, Research Scientist, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. Be sure to follow the http://swarmcreativity.blogspot.com/ ">Swarm Creativity blog too.

The Swarm Creativity map was created by Betsey Merkel, I-Open.

Extended deadline: CALL FOR PAPERS: COINs2010 – 2nd Int'l Conference on Collaborative Innovation Networks, Oct 7-9, 2010

I-Open is a co-sponsor of the upcoming COINs 2010 Conference. Please see this important conference update:

Following several requests from colleagues, the deadline for abstract submission has been extended to Thursday Aug 12th.

“COINs are everywhere!”

Oct 7-9, 2010, SCAD Savannah
Deadline for abstract submission: Extended to August 12, 2010

The second international conference on Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs) brings together practitioners, researchers and students of the emerging science of collaboration. The emergence of online social networks opens up unprecedented opportunities to read the collective mind, discovering emergent trends while they are still being hatched by small groups of creative individuals. The Web has become a mirror of the real world, allowing researchers to study and better understand why some new ideas change our lives, while others never make it from the drawing board of the innovator.

Collaborative Innovation Networks, or COINs, are cyberteams of self-motivated people with a collective vision, enabled by technology to collaborate in innovating by sharing ideas, information, and work. Although COINs have been around for hundreds of years, they are especially relevant today because the concept has reached its tipping point thanks to the Internet. COINs are powered by swarm creativity, wherein people work together in a structure that enables a fluid creation and exchange of ideas. ‘Coolhunting’ – discovering, analyzing, and measuring trends and trendsetters – puts COINs to productive use. Patterns of collaborative innovation frequently follow an identical path, from creator to COIN to collaborative learning network to collaborative interest network.

The theme of the conference combines a wide range of interdisciplinary fields such as social network analysis, group dynamics, design and visualization, information systems and the psychology and sociality of collaboration.

We invite researchers to submit their latest scientific results on

Global Collaboration Networks (Global focus)
· Organizational optimization in COINs
· Virtual Communication and Collaboration
· Measuring the performance of COINs
· Patterns of swarm creativity
· Trust, Privacy, Risk, Transparency and Security in social contexts

Group Collaboration (Group focus)
· Collaborative Leadership
· Design and visualization in interdisciplinary collaboration
· Group dynamics and global teaming in virtual collaboration

Microscopic aspects of collaboration (Individual focus)
· Emotional Intelligence, Cultural Dynamics, Opinion Representation, Influence Process
· The psychology and sociality of collaboration
· Social Behavior Modeling
· Social Intelligence and Social Cognition

Tools and Methods focus
· Social System Design and Architectures
· Dynamic Social Network Analysis
· Semantic Social Network Analysis

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: extended to Aug 12, 2010

Authors notification: Aug 20, 2010

Final manuscript due: Sept 20, 2010

Program Dates: October 7, 8 and 9, 2010.

Paper submission
Submit an abstract of no more than 300 words to the program chair Julia Gluesing at  < j.gluesing@wayne.edu >
Accepted papers (16 pages max) will be published in the conference proceedings in the Elsevier Procedia series

Should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the conference to present the work in order for the paper to be included in the conference proceedings.


Program Committee

John Bucuvalas, (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio)
Richard Colletti, (University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont)
Marco De Maggio (Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy)
Elenna Dugundji (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Kai Fischbach (University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany)
Peter Gloor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Julia Gluesing, chair (Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan)
Francesca Grippa (Northeastern University, Boston)
Takashi Iba (Keio University, Tokyo, Japan)
Stokes Jones (Lodestar, Atlanta, Georgia)
Casper Lassenius (Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland)
Peter Margolis, (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio)
Betsey Merkel (I-Open, Cleveland, Ohio)
Chris Miller (SCAD, Savannah, Georgia)
Maria Paasivaara (Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland)
Johannes Putzke (University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany)
Ken Riopelle (Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich.)
Detlef Schoder (University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany)
Michael Seid, (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio)

Conference Web Site: http://www.coins2010.com
Full Call for Papers: http://www.scribd.com/doc/32955537/COINs2010-Call-for-Papers