Comments on: Critical Mass: Bringing Physics to Social Network Pablum

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By: voiska

voiska — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:33:28 +0000

Patiesi – How may social media experts have any understanding of statistical physics? http://bit.ly/1d0a41

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By: monkchips

monkchips — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:53:34 +0000

thanks @delineator for the awesome link about Economics violating the laws of physics http://bit.ly/kX8lq chimes with http://bit.ly/2hfWSc

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By: JoeBaguley

JoeBaguley — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:24:49 +0000

Social media meets science, @monkchips hits the nail on the head (I studied statistics & mechanics James ) : http://is.gd/4Be36

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By: David Haywood Smith

David Haywood Smith — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:56:39 +0000

Really fascinating concept!

By: kulturmanager

kulturmanager — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:43:31 +0000

Reading: James Governor: “Critical Mass: Bringing Physics to Social Network Pablum” ( http://bit.ly/MPFdr )

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By: Christopher Morace

Christopher Morace — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:50:18 +0000

James, when you and I spoke this morning and you mentioned how closely what Jive is doing in social analytics mapped to the points you made in this blog, I was excited to read it. After doing so, I completely agree. More importantly, I think we are only just entering this stage of insight when it comes to social analytics and the next year is when the magic happens. I often describe the last few years in terms of the maturity of social analytics as:
Level 0 (2008): Community growth metrics
Level 1 (2009): Translation of traditional business ROI metrics (case deflection, deal closure, product adoption, etc)
Level 2 (2010): Illumination of Social Value within Business

It is this next level that feels to me like what you are talking about, James, and it is this information and the power it has to transform the way we work together and make decision in the workplace that has me excited.

By: monkchips

monkchips — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:35:11 +0000

@amcafee what book made a BIG impression on me? I’m glad you asked http://bit.ly/2hfWSc #andyasks

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By: James Governor

James Governor — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:17:05 +0000

hi Rosanne thanks for your comment. A couple of things. First off we should learn from recent events. Economists have been using deeply flawed and simplistic models of markets. Nobel prize winning Gaussian trading strategies have been proved utterly at odds with the truth of how markets operate. http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-03/wp_quant?currentPage=all

In fact Ball argues, and I concur, that we need to drive social physics into economics to make it more effective. Rational really? I should also say that not only do very few people really read economics – but Gladwell is certainly *not* an economist. He is in the field of popular science, same as Ball.

“make you lose sight of the fact that we’re dealing with groups of unique and complex human beings here” – with respect you can still apply maths here. Again look at, say Suroweiki’s Wisdom of The Crowds – for a brilliant exposition on the power of aggregation. I hope you enjoy it – let me know.

this was the basis of most of the trading strategies that killed us.