Orgnet.com Summary Description the Website

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Summary Description

The website orgnet.com is well designed, providing useful delineations of software, training, consulting and case studies pertaining to network analysis as it relates to social media, communities and organizations. The usability of the site is excellent, with easily defined pages and navigation that is flat, quickly understandable with rich content in each specific section. The fundamental goals of the site are well-achieved in that it is an excellent teaching portal, with many links to articles and analyses of interest. The author has created a useful portal for knowledge in social network analysis as it relates to a variety of applications or uses.

Usability

The website is designed with ample white space and navigational tools to enable visitors to quickly find the information they are looking for. The look and feel of the site is appropriate for the target audience of academicians, business strategies and senior executives who will use the content there to learn more about network analysis and its benefits. Examples of this include tailoring of content for the specific needs of the readers, with sections titled Software for Social Network Analysis & Organizational Network Analysis for example. This allows for quick navigation to areas of interest and the ability to also manage content more effectively. The sections on SNA and ONA Training and Consulting in Social Network Analysis (SNA) and Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) both further illustrate this point of navigation flexibility and ease of comprehension of different sections. Finally the site has two or more approaches to finding and searching content, further underscoring its value to a wide audience of users as well.

Value and Benefits Delivered

The greatest value this site delivers is a wealth of content on the subject of network analysis, including the ability to transform significant amounts of data into a contiguous, unified data set for analysis. There is also extensive industry analysis and insight into the areas of network analysis as well. For all of these benefits however, the site does not provide enough guidance on where to find actual software to accomplish these analyses as readily as it could. This is an excellent site for finding intelligence about the subject, yet it lacks actual software to do analysis.

Inclusion in Professional References List

Despite the limitation of not having software available it deserves to be included in a professional references list.