Orgnet.com: website design and social network analysis resources

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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.

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.

Useful Links

1. Data Mining and E-Mail: http://orgnet.com/email.html

2. Computer Networks as Social Networks: http://orgnet.com/SocialLifeOfRouters.pdf

3. Uncloaking Terrorist Networks: http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/941/863

Additional Findings of Interest

The references as to how network analysis works and its broad use are especially fascinating, as is the analysis of social networks and influence.

Bottom Line Evaluation

This is a very valuable site, one that has an excellent portal structure easy to navigate as well.