ISNAE is fortunate to have a number of people that are active in it at all times. They help with or give classes, they check to make sure that our talks are accurate and appropriate, they act as consultants to clients, they give talks and, most importantly, they provide an active community to exchange ideas. This core group is often in daily contact.

• Mark Granovetter - Stanford - Numurous publications, the most famous is: "The Strength of Weak Ties." He is leader of the Silicon Valley Network Analysis Project (SiVNAP).

• Don Steiny - University of Oulu/Stanford - Don is a popular speaker on social networks and leader of several of ISNAE's research projects. Don is the most central in the network and actively keeps it connected. He is an instructor, researcher and student at University of Oulu and a research contribuitor at Stanford.

• Andrew Hargadon - U.C. Davis Author: How Breakthroughs Happen. Andrew is a writer, speaker and on innovation with interest in how social networks affect and facilitate innovation.

• Harri Oinas-Kukkonen - University of Oulu - Harri is the author of numerous articles on Information Systems. The University of Oulu is involved in projects with ISNAE members in inter-disciplinary networks, regional collaboration and organizing data as networks.

• Sean Everton - Stanford - Sean is the author of The Guide for the Visually Perplexed an excellent introduction to using Pajek and UCINet to visualize networks. Sean developed and taught ISNAE's first class on how to do Social Network Analysis and provides a reality check on most ISNAE projects.

• Andrew Parker - Stanford - Co-author: The Hidden Power of Social Networks Andrew is part of SiVNAP and has written about interdisciplinary networks as well as organizational networks.

• Gerald Barnett - UC Santa Cruz - Gerald is the Director of Intellectual Property Management at UCSC. Gerald is interested in social networks both from the point of view of diffusion of innovation, but also the questions of how networks are created and how institutional rules such as IP law influence preferrential attachment.

• Harald Katzmair, PhD. - FAS. Research - Harald is the leader of the largest company in the world that totally does Social Network Analysis. He is a highly regarded speaker on social networks, a researcher and a businessman who has created a new paradigm for using social networks and business. He is working with ISNAE on several joint research project proposals.

• Harrison White - Columbia
• James March - Stanford
• Wayne Baker - University of Michigan
• Ivan Chase - SUNY, Stony Brook

  The Silicon Valley Network Analysis Project - This is a group at Stanford who are students in the Economic Sociology Research Group.