{"id":278,"date":"2003-03-23T10:09:43","date_gmt":"2003-03-23T15:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=278"},"modified":"2003-03-23T10:09:43","modified_gmt":"2003-03-23T15:09:43","slug":"social-network-analysis-is-dangerous-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"Social Network Analysis is Dangerous Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HP analyzed email data to trace the real lines of influence in the organization, as reported in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nsu\/030317\/030317-5.html\">Nature<\/a\" article.\nMike at TechDirt <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20030321\/1517200.shtml\">asks<\/a>: &#8220;will people risk getting laid off if their email usage patterns indicate they not as important as they think they are?&#8221;<br \/>\nNo, people will risk getting laid off if their email patterns indicate that they are MORE important than the organization thinks they are.<br \/>\nThink about departments where the person who&#8217;s important on the real org chart is junior, or female, or the administrative assistant, or a nurse?<br \/>\nEven when an organization discovers the real org chart &#8212; the organization still might not be able to cope with the difference between what&#8217;s nominally going on and what&#8217;s really going on.<br \/>\nThis is dangerous knowledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HP analyzed email data to trace the real lines of influence in the organization, as reported in this Nature<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-4u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}