Text Analysis of the Social Capital Literature Network ... - INSNA

A Time of Many Changes . . .
NETWORK NEWS!
JoSS. David Krackhardt, together with a small
group of interested parties, is trying to launch
a new electronic journal - the Journal of
Social Structure - which will feature network
analysis as one focus . The journal will
be totally web-based, and will enable authors
to make use of all kinds of multimedia
features, including :
• color
• 3-D graphics
• real-time simulations
• interaction w/ the user
• execution of programs
• distribution of software & data
INSNA will be a sponsor of the journal and
has agreed to provide a limited amount of
start-up funding . Carnegie Mellon University
will be producing the journal and will also be
contributing monetarily .
President Everett . At the INSNA business
meeting in Charleston, we agreed that Martin
Everett (University of Greenwich) would be
the next head of INSNA, who, in accordance
with our bylaws, will hold a 3-year term
beginning January 1", 2000 (talk about a new
beginning!) . We also (largely) agreed that, for
the sake of professionalism, we should start
referring to the head of INSNA as "president"
rather than the more informal "coordinator" as
we have done in the past .
Martin will be handling subscriptions through
the University of Greenwich, so Candy Jones
will be stepping down as Subscriptions Manager,
and Roberta Chase will be stepping
down as Treasurer (in that capacity, she has
been handling all the financial transactions of
INSNA, from processing credit cards to
writing checks to conference hotels) .
Editor of Connections . The next co-editors of
CONNECTIONS will be Bill Richards and
Tom Valente . Like the president, they will
serve a 3-year term beginning next January .
Sunbelt 20(00) . The 20' Sunbelt International
Social Networks Conference will be held at
the Coast Plaza Hotel in Vancouver, Canada
from April 13 th to April 16th in the year 2000 .
The conference will be organized by Bill
Richards . For more information, contact Bill
at richards@sfu .ed u .
INSNA Bylaws. The bylaws of our organization
were drafted in late 1993 when I took
over as INSNA coordinator president . Frankly,
they could use rewriting and updating . I
recommend that we do that over the course of
this year, so that when Martin takes office in
2000, he has a clear mission and an up-to-date
set of rules to guide him . The bylaws can be
found on the INSNA website, and are also
reprinted in this issue of CONNECTIONS .
.Steve Voagam
El Presidente
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