How can existing distribution chain members stay connected and become master of their own destiny? A week ago I had the honour to be invited as key note speaker at the Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam (OBA) for the Unbound Book summit. The theme was the future of (e)books and its’ distribution chain. A huge topic that [...]

When you’re studying social network analysis (SNA), like I do, one of the first things you might want to ask is ‘what is social about a network?’, and if so, why would you bother analyzing it? These are questions I’ve asked myself and will keep asking myself. The first is probably easier than the second, [...]

One of our taglines at Favela Fabric is “We help organizations harness their social capital”. Many definitions exist for social capital, so what do we harness exactly? One of the characteristics of social capital is that it refers to something intangible. Another could be that it refers to human (social) relationships. To me, we’re talking [...]