ebig panel on community

Cynthia introducing the idea of professional guilds. Making people googleworthy to recruiters. Ryze helping people connect, less alone in trying times. Cyn/ David reed mit group formation. Q1. Portability. Karma, blogrolls/friends. Q2. Intranet prerequisites. Q3. Craig. Phase transition - communities emerging, esp in politics. Legislative changes, privacy bill passed over big money lobbyists. With more groups, specialization. Power of weak links, lots of ways that people arrive. Cynthia says online nets may disintermediate recruiters. Google: social network knowledge Sna and santa fe institute Sept 10 parc social net Isnae.org "strength of weak ties"