Bubbles Everywhere: Speculative Bubbles in Financial Markets and in Everyday Life

Prof. Dr. Bernd Ankenbrand

Bubbles are everywhere! Over the last centuries we have seen many speculative bubbles and it seems recently frequency has increased. We will start this course with identifying historic economic bubbles. Building on this knowledge we will discuss their sociological, psychological and economic causes. As there are numerous other bubbles in our world, we will go far beyond financial bubbles! For example we will examine the hype around a brand, fashion style, movement or just a simple story. By applying the findings of behavioral economics, we will deepen our understanding both of speculative bubbles and bubbles in everyday life.

Please vote for the Bubbles Everywhere MOOC.

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 https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/108003558646876212824

Thanks to all 270+ of you for making the AngelList User Group (ALUG) pilot an enormous success. As we transition from the pilot phase to full production, among the important questions is the technology and community platforms we use. This message helps you understand our strategy.

Meetup (MU) – this an ok site for ad hoc gatherings. It leaves a lot to be desired. While it meets some needs today, and will continue to be used, it is not the long-term strategic choice. This is due to significant limitations.

AngelList (AL) – we all use and love AngelList and that’s why we are here. Remember, AL is a social medium first and foremost. It is important that you are always active in AL. It’s good practice to maintain your profile. It is also important to follow your other ALUG Members [https://angel.co/jheuristic]. To get the most from AL strive to nurture, reveal and serve your social networks vis-à-vis AL.

Google Plus (G+) – is the strategic community platform for the ALUG. It makes expanded sharing and discovery very easy. You are urged to join the ALUG G+ Community today. G+ helps optimize and develop the productive networks beyond AL and MU. G+ provisions video conversations and exchanges with Hangouts. Simply put, G+ is the future of communities like the ALUG.

Some or even many of you may be skeptical of G+ and other social media. That’s smart. Facebook train wrecks are legion. Even mighty Google has had major flops like Orkut and Wave…

G+ is different. It’s for business. Online community technology has been my specialty for decades. G+ is here to stay. Join your ALUG here…

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/108003558646876212824

and start sharing!

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Social Network Analysis (SNA) is the methodical, mathematical and rigorous study of social networks.

Below please find links to open SNA wikis for –

• Business SNA
• SNA Courses

You are welcome, encouraged and expected to edit these open wikis. The data are curated-by-the-crowd.

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Here is a noteworthy development reported by TechCrunch last Sunday in case you missed it…

SEC Greenlights AngelList

“The Securities and Exchange Commission is making way for a number of startups and online investment platforms to enable startups to crowdsource investment.”

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/31/sec-angellist-greenlight/

This is a positive development. It advances the goal of frictionless flow of capital, innovation and talent. It also aids the mission of AngelList and the AngelList User Group.

The next Bay Area AngelList User Group Meetup is Tuesday, April 9, 2013 in San Francisco. This Meetup is full.

You may join the AngelList User Group here…

http://www.meetup.com/AngelList-User-Group/

The Google Plus AngelList User Group community is recommended. G+ Hangouts will augment the physical Meetups. 

Join here:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/108003558646876212824

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Here in Silicon Valley credibility is important. Some flash their LinkedIn Serial Number as a form of street cred: a measure for commanding a level of respect in an urban environment due to experience in or knowledge of issues affecting those environments.

The meme is the lower your LinkedIn Number the higher your street cred.

So, how do you find out when you joined LinkedIn? Simply login to your linked LinkedIn. Then press your profile picture in the upper right to reach the ‘Privacy and Settings’ menu.

‘Privacy and Settings’ page list your join date as follows…

Now, how to find that all-important Serial Number? Easy, just click on your Picture to reveal your Profile. Ta-da! Your LinkedIn Serial Number is revealed. The ID= Number in your profile URL is your LinkedIn Serial Number.

In this case, for me, it is 4381. Hope the 200M+ that joined after me have enjoyed it as much as me.

Read more from #4381 –

http://networksingularity.com/2011/03/26/4381-amp-108.aspx 

Know your street cred. What’s your LinkedIn Serial Number? 

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Usenet has had a remarkable 30-year run. Note: Usenet is not a listserv or LISTSERV^®. Usenet is Usenet. Period. It is what you have been using for a decade. For some of us it’s been over three decades. 

In 2001 Google acquired DejaNews, a Usenet service, to create Google Groups.  It is still Usenet, but with a Google interface. It’s been a nice experience, but it is simply time to move on.

The successor is, ta-da, Google Plus (G+). You are urged to sign-up today.

https://plus.google.com/

These Usenet communities and some others will be consolidated into the Colabria Leadership Networks G+ community. You need to be in G+ to join.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/106753207926338318303

The Network Singularity Google Groups will be retired soon. Their content is carried and searchable in Usenet in perpetuity, of course. Usenet will probably be around forever too.

Remember, lurkers and all, now and more in the future:

 anonymity = irrelevance

Welcome to the Network Age of Identity.

“Within search results, information tied to verified online profiles will be ranked higher than content without such verification.”

- Eric Schmidt,
Executive Chairman of Google,
5 February 2013.

Join G+ and Colabria and prosper.

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HOW NETWORKS ARE SHAPING THE MODERN METROPOLIS

Zachary Neal
Michigan State University

Routledge, 2012
ISBN 978-0-415-88142-5

The Connected City explores how thinking about networks helps make sense of modern cities: what they are, how they work, and where they are headed. It is organized around three different levels of urban networks that build upon one another, and require distinctive analytical approaches that make it possible to consider different types of questions:

(1) Micro-urban networks: Networks within cities, including the social relationships among neighbors that give rise to communities and subcultures, and that shape the complexities of urban politics.

(2) Meso-urban networks: Networks that structure cities, including infrastructure networks like roads and organizational networks like those among governmental and social service agencies.

(3) Macro-urban networks: Networks between cities, including the telecommunications and command-and-control networks that shape processes of economic development and globalization at regional, national, and global scales.

Throughout these sections, when a new methodological concept is introduced, a separate “method note” provides a brief and accessible introduction to the practical issues of using networks analysis in research. What makes this book unique is that it synthesizes the insights and tools of multiple scales of urban networks, and integrates the theory and method of network analysis.

Advance Praise

“Urbanists often talk about cities as agglomerations and clusters, but what makes them such powerful economic and social engines is their extraordinarily intricate and adaptable weave of connections. Zachary Neals The Connected City shows how networks make cities more innovative and people more productiveand explains why cities are increasingly replacing large bureaucratic corporations as the key social and economic organizing units of our time.”

— Richard Florida,
Director, Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and author of The Rise of the Creative Class, Revisited

“In The Connected City Zachary Neal uses the language of network science to unravel the mechanisms that govern a citys daily evolution and patterns of daily life. He offers a persuasive narrative that fundamentally alters the way we perceive urban life.”

— Albert-Laszlo Barabasi,
Distinguished Professor and Director of Northeastern Universitys Center for Complex Network Research and author of Linked

“The Connected City is the networked city. Zachary Neals masterful book takes away from old-fashioned views of cities to show how they thrive through their networks between residents, businesses, and even between cities. The cities networks pulse with vitality and life, and so does this book.”

— Barry Wellman,
S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto

“The strength of the book is in presenting a network analytic take on many of the key issues in urban studies, while at the same time providing a quite brilliant introduction to network analysis using these urban studies themes. It is well written and accessible to advanced undergraduates without being too elementary for more experienced students of these urban issues.”

— Michael F. Timberlake,
Professor of Sociology, University of Utah

“Confronted by the multitude of new books on cities, there are two very good reasons to read this one: first, it provides a thorough understanding of how networks work; second, it does a brilliant job of evaluating networks across scales, from community to global, while remaining focused on cities. I consider The Connected City to be a cutting-edge addition to the urban literature.”

— Peter Taylor,
Director of GaWC; Professor, School of Built and Natural Environment, Northumbria University; Emeritus Professor, Department of Geography, Loughborough University

“An overarching effort to comprehensively link the multifarious network approaches to cities has been long overdue. Neals The Connected City effectively rectifies this situation: based on a sophisticated review of very diverse literatures, this book provides readers with both an elegant introduction to and a wide-ranging review of the urban literature drawing on the notion of networks.”

— Ben Derudder,
Marie Curie Research Fellow, School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University and Professor of Human Geography, Department of Geography, Ghent University

– Zachary Neal,
Assistant Professor
Michigan State University
Department of Sociology & Global Urban Studies Program

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Putting the Pieces Together

Brochure

Social Media and Collaboration // Change Management and Culture // Learning and Performance // Content and Information Management // Communication and Leadership
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Special feature: A short history of KM Australia
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This year’s Congress is putting the pieces together by addressing a range of crucial issues in the evolving discipline of knowledge management.

Our expert panel of speakers will share successful strategies and initiatives that have actually made a difference in their organisations.

You’ll learn:

• Creating and implementing a knowledge management strategy for your organisation
• Changing minds and winning support and promotion of the KM agenda
• Generating innovative ways of supporting staff to share and create knowledge
• Knowledge services in the face of new and changing social and mobile technology

Hear from our expert panel of speakers representing:

• McDermott Consulting (United States of America)
• LEGO Group (Denmark)
• Toyota (United States of America)
• Federal Transit Administration (United States of America)
• Federal Aviation Administration (United States of America)
• Department of Defence (Australia)
• Rio Tinto (Australia)
• Queensland Treasury (Australia)
• Genea (Australia)
• Woods Bagot (Australia)
• The Paige Group (Australia)
• Anecdote (Australia)
• KPMG (Australia)
• Telstra (Australia)

Plus a debate on capturing tacit knowledge using social technologies, including:

• Objective Corporation
• Headshift | Dachis Group
• Anecdote
• Institute for Knowledge and Innovation Southeast Asia – Thailand Office, Bangkok University
• TAFE NSW – Sydney Institute

Register

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Network Weaver Handbook – Virtual Sessions, by June Holley

Starting July 17th at 3E/12P, Network Weaver will offer free monthly virtual sessions covering chapters in the  Network Weaver Handbook. Each hour-long session will discuss basic concepts introduced in that chapter with a chance to ask questions. Those particpating will talk about how they plan to use activities in the chapter and get advice from others in the group.  

You can register for the first session here. The conference call number is (218) 339-2409  Passcode 57 8256.

You can obtain a copy of the Handbook at a reduced rate (usually $50 plus postage) for $30 plus $5 postage by sending funds to june@networkweaving.com through paypal.com or send a check to
      June Holley
      8 Lincoln St
      Athens OH 45701

For bulk copies (over 3) send a request to june@networkweaving.com and I will quote you a lower rate.

- June Holley
Network Weaver

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