Army Social Scientists Calm Afghanistan, Make Enemies at Home

Army Social Scientists Calm Afghanistan, Make Enemies at Home. Related articles Human Terrain Team Survey Finds U.S. Soldiers Widely Believe the Afghan Army is Making Little to No Progress (publicintelligence.net) Peace Corps and Afghanistan (zeroanthropology.net) Should Anthropologists Go to War? (time.com) The (pixelated) things they carried | Chris Miller (guardian.co.uk) Training the Afghan Military (nation.time.com) … Continue reading Army Social Scientists Calm Afghanistan, Make Enemies at Home

VisiblePath: MySpace for the Office?

MySpace for the Office. Another social scientist developed networking tool like Facebook, LinkedIn but for corporate users. Related articles Why I'm not looking for investment (petewarden.typepad.com) Is a 'white flight' from social media on the horizon? (thegrio.com) The Best Online Tools for Startup Growth and Success (growthology.org) Is Bigger Better with Social Media? (greatfinds.icrossing.com) Hire … Continue reading VisiblePath: MySpace for the Office?

Peter Biddle: Enterprise social networking ready for lift-off

Peter Biddle: Enterprise social networking ready for lift-off | ZDNet. This is a key part of KM: social networking but inside corporations with adequate security, tracking and mapping communications between users in email etc. Developed from the founder's ethnographic studies on an island of gossip and communications patterns Related articles Enterprise Social Road to Nowhere. … Continue reading Peter Biddle: Enterprise social networking ready for lift-off

Dunning–Kruger effect: survival of the loudest in corporate America

Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This hilarious piece of social research suggests what I have observed in my own job repeatedly: the most loud, confident people who stand at your desk proclaiming things are often the least knowledgeable but in many cases the ones most likely to be promoted. Related articles Word of … Continue reading Dunning–Kruger effect: survival of the loudest in corporate America