Intro Contents

Introducing the Collaboration Science Framework

Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs), swarm creativity, and coolhunting and coolfarming and its application on three levels: the global level, to read the collective mind of millions to predict trends, the organizational level, to study and optimize performance of companies and organizations, and on the individual level, to optimize individual performance and creativity.

Hands-on with Condor 1

Basic introduction into our dynamic semantic social network analysis tool Condor. Web-Coolhunting, and the “Communication view” to measure the popularity of topics.

Concepts of Social Network Analysis

Main building blocks: nodes and ties. Different centrality metrics: degree, closeness, betweenness. Ego networks, group networks, homophily.

Hands-on with Condor 2

Analyzing Twitter-feeds and Facebook friends and walls. Visualizing and analyzing results with gephi.

Hands-on with Condor 3

Analyzing your own mailbox, visualizing and analyzing the social network and the contents network (term view).

Team project with Condor

Initializing your own project, analyzing e-mail archives, facebook networks, Wikipedia, and Twitter.

Measuring the impact and attributes of brands, concepts, and people

What is the context and sentiment on the Web, Blogs, Facebook and Twitter of a brand or product? How can we measure the success of Web campaigns? How can we find the most influential people?

Measuring and optimizing organizational performance and creativity

Analyzing the success of startup entrepreneurs through their social networking behavior. Creating Collaborative Care Networks (C3N) to improve outcomes for patients of chronic diseases.

Collective Prediction

Predicting trends on the global level by mining the Web, Blogs, online forums, and Twitter. Examples include “Who will win the Oscars?” political elections, movie box office success, and macroeconomic indicators.

Optimizing individual performance and creativity through sociometric badges

Combining sociometric badges and other communication archives, the German consulting firm, the German bank, and the hospital case.

Learnings from Wikipedia

Networks of Ideas and Concept Maps. Current Hot Topics – by intellectual field, societal issue, culture, etc. Understanding cultures by what they are passionate about. Identifying leaders. Lessons for collaboration in open source projects.

Coolfarming – Nurturing COINs in the virtual and real world

Using the COINs approach for self-organizing, intrinsically motivated project management. To become a better manager stop being a manager. Using online social networks for viral marketing.