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= **Appendix** =

// **__Glossary of Terms__** //
**Community:** A group of people who share a common interest – whether their place of residence or an issue that cuts across boundaries.

**Complexity Science:** Collection of ideas and principles from a number of different bodies of knowledge (including systems and network theory) that are used to identify patterns, processes, and relationships across a wide range of different phenomena / complex systems.

** Network, noun ** : A group of people who are connected through relationships.

** Network-centric, adjective ** : A way of organizing that is transparent, open and decentralized.

** Network practice, noun ** : Tools and strategies for strengthening, creating or leveraging network connections.

**Network weaving:** The art of making connections among a group of people, in order to strengthen existing ties, bring new people into the network and bridge divides.

**Node:** The people who are connected together through relationships (links) in a network. Nodes can refer to any component that can be connected together in a network, like organizations, ideas or data. In this essay we focus on networks of people (social networks).

**Periphery:** The collection of nodes that are at the edge of the network and therefore less connected to others by than the highly connected nodes in the center of the network.

**Social media:** Technologies that use broadly accessible and expandable publishing tools such as blogs, wikis, social networking sites and Twitter. They are social in the sense that they facilitate interaction among people; they allow “many-to-many” connections, between and among virtually any number of people, however small or large; and, in many cases, they offer both simultaneous and asynchronous interaction, enabling communication either in real time or over long periods.

**Social network analysis (SNA):** The analytic process of mapping, understanding and measuring the networks of social relationships that connect people to one another, using specialized software and techniques.

**Space:** The venue where the members of a network form and renew their connections, whether a physical place or an online meeting-space.

**Strong ties:** Relationships in a network that are comparatively deep or binding.

**Systems theory:** A transdisciplinary study that focuses on the arrangement of and relations between parts that connect them into a whole.

**Weak ties:** Relationships in a network that are comparatively light or fleeting.

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