Comments on: Going from weak ties connections to engagement relationships https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/going-from-weak-ties-connections-to-engagement-relationships/2011/03/18 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sat, 19 Mar 2011 11:40:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Jaap van Till https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/going-from-weak-ties-connections-to-engagement-relationships/2011/03/18/comment-page-1#comment-480749 Sat, 19 Mar 2011 11:40:07 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=14639#comment-480749 If you map the topology of the links between people you will find that they are clustered. That is where the strong links of friends,family and collegues are. There are however certain people who are members of several tribes (clusters) at the same time. These do interesting bridging and forwarding with recommendations. These are the weak ties mentioned by Granovetter and more recent by peter csermely.

]]> By: Poor Richard https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/going-from-weak-ties-connections-to-engagement-relationships/2011/03/18/comment-page-1#comment-480704 Sat, 19 Mar 2011 06:35:20 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=14639#comment-480704 Choke–old hippies using CRM? Well, I guess the Apaches picked up rifles…

Just please don’t go the way of Stewart Brand!

]]> By: Michel Bauwens https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/going-from-weak-ties-connections-to-engagement-relationships/2011/03/18/comment-page-1#comment-480687 Sat, 19 Mar 2011 04:28:51 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=14639#comment-480687 In reply to Gideon Rosenblatt.

Hi Gideon, I will explore both your link and site in more detail as well. Umair’s book is as yet unopened on my night table, but I’m aware of his work and quote him quite often on our blog!

]]> By: Gideon Rosenblatt https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/going-from-weak-ties-connections-to-engagement-relationships/2011/03/18/comment-page-1#comment-480526 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:11:38 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=14639#comment-480526 Thanks Michel. I’m going to have to spend some time crawling around through The P2P Foundation’s website. Lots of shared interests that we are exploring. Speaking of which, have you read Umair Haque’s “The New Capitalist Manifesto”? I’m reading it now and think you might like some of the ideas in that book. Here’s a quick overview of one of the core ideas: “thick-value”:
http://www.alchemyofchange.net/thick-value/

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