Thanks for pointing me to Peter Gloor’s work. Very interesting - I added some of his papers to my reading list.

Microblogging is a social tool. Therefore I agree with you that we need methods of social analysis to understand its mechanisms. However, valid measurement could be hard, as you have social interaction documented in the microblogging system on the one hand, and on the other hand there is social interaction which takes place because of a microblogging posting but not by using the microblogging system (telephon calls, email, face2face, IM…).

Currently I have a student analysing value creation in enterprise microblogging. I will point him to network analysis. Let’s stay tuned in this issue!

PeterGloor has some interesting research work done in the field of swarm intelligence. Even dynamic social network analysis has been his focus. So one could measure the impact of microblogging in the streaming manner.

I wonder whether this has been already thought of. It would mean a driver for future functionality of Communote.

What is your impression?

Greetings!