Advanced Collaboration Research

Sharing practical ways to engage in the Collaboration Revolution

Do People Mix at Mixers? Structure, Homophily, and the “Life of the Party”

We used electronic name tags to conduct a fine-grained analysis of the pattern of socializing dynamics at a mixer attended by about 100 business…
Brandon Klein Sep 09, 2015

Getting Closer at the Company Party: Integration Experiences, Racial Dissimilarity, and Workplace Relationships

Using survey data from two distinct samples, we found that reported integration behaviors (e.g., attending company parties, discussing nonwork…
Brandon Klein Sep 09, 2015

Friends at Work? Not So Much

ONCE, work was a major source of friendships. We took our families to company picnics and invited our colleagues over for dinner. Now, work is a more…
Brandon Klein Sep 09, 2015

Why Being The Most Connected Is A Vanity Metric

A basic pattern of network science is clustering. People tend to gravitate to clusters for a lot of reasons whether it be working in the same company…
Brandon Klein Aug 31, 2015

Sandy Pentland MIT Connection Science

Brandon Klein Aug 26, 2015

Why Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Few Americans today say they know their neighbors’ names, and far fewer report interacting with them on a daily basis. Pulling data from the General…
Brandon Klein Aug 24, 2015

Environment - engineering serendipity

The loftlike San Francisco office of software maker Atlassian has an open central amphitheater, where all-staff gatherings and midday boot camp…
Brandon Klein Aug 21, 2015

Hylo - A new kind of social network that helps real communities create, together.

Discover opportunities all around you. We’re surrounded by incredible people, skills, and resources. But it’s hard to know who to connect with, for…
Brandon Klein Aug 21, 2015

SocioViz. Markets are conversations Analyze social networks and find your influencers

Brandon Klein Aug 21, 2015

Why Collaboration Fails

The average worker still spends 28 percent of their time managing email 65 percent of a sales rep’s time is still not spent selling Only 7 percent of…
Brandon Klein Jul 13, 2015