CONNECTIVITY THINKING

How things are connected can matter far more than what they 'are'. This is obviously true for people and seems to be likely true for just about everything we have to deal with. Connectivity is now a study in itself. This study became widely known in terms of small world theory but has advanced since then. Connectivity says that everything is connected but some things are more connected than others.

This is to understand reality as organized complexity.

In groups of friends, some are more connected than others
	People cluster together in interest groups, which may have some members who know people in other groups. Without these relatively few 'weak' links, people would be isolated in their own small groups. With them, it becomes a 'small world'.

CONNECTING MMS

MMs are connected in clusters but they are not in separate groups. Different clusters are connected by a few links that enable the whole network to be highly connected.

MMs loosely associated together in a vague way	MMs linked together, forming a chain (each MM connected to two neighbours) in which linkage becomes meaningful	Finding additional connections that greatly increase connectivity to form a strong cluster - a circle can signify a cluster or an MM

HUBS

Dynamic networks evolve hubs that have vastly greater number of connections than most anything else, as is evident on a map of the Internet, but might be true for any very complex system. If change is wanted, it has to be transmitted through the whole network. This means finding out how one is connected and the role and influence of the hubs.

PATTERNS OF CONNECTIVITY

Connectivity thinking is less concerned with what the elements or nodes are than how they are connected. The seemingly different factors such as

ideas

people

experiences

events

can prove to exhibit the same characteristics as each other.

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