Net-Map is an interview-based mapping tool that helps people understand, visualize, discuss, and improve situations in which many different actors influence outcomes. More
This is very important for you if you want your thinking to spread through your extended networks, beyond the small circle of people you can reach directly and beyond the small group who will read what you write: If you explain your stuff so well and so vividly at the same time that it will [...]
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Next week (4th of September) I am giving a brown bag seminar at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC about “Using the Net-Map method to understand the political economy of social sector interventions”. This is more of an internal event, so I can’t invite you. But while thinking about this talk I wondered: Maybe [...]
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I’m just off skype with my colleague Allison Hewlitt and our discussion about the different networks we work in and work with has left a door open in my mind. I don’t quite know what’s behind this door but I have started thinking. About what? About different kinds of animals. We are part of and [...]
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If you read this blog, I just assume that you are interested in similar things as I am. And that might mean that you have something interesting to say about collaborative learning in organizations. KM4D (Knowledge Management for Development) is a great open access journal that encourages researchers but also people who are not so [...]
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Here is a pod-cast in which I talk with Noora Abermann from the IFPRI facilitated RENEWAL network on HIV/Aids and Nutrition. We explore how talking about networks can help to actually improve them. Listen to podcast (8 min 16 sec – click player below)
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One thing that is great about wordpress’ function of tracking down from where people clicked on my blog, is that it leads me to websites or blogs of other people that I wouldn’t have gone looking for by myself because I didn’t even realize that something of that kind was out there. Today I discovered [...]
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This is often the underlying question when we map out networks: Participants are eager to know if they have the correct, the best network structure. But giving a normative answer to this question (as in: This is how your network should be) isn’t as easy or straightforward as they might hope. Because before you can [...]
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Sometimes you read something and think: “How come these guys can put my hunches into such clear and convincing language, while I just sit here, having the funny feeling that something might be wrong…?” Then all you can do is smile and share it with everyone who might be interested. This is what happened when [...]
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There are a lot of cool visual facilitators out there who capture processes, discussions, results of meetings in drawings. But the other day I realized that visual facilitation can start before anyone even touches a crayon. When the members of the RENEWAL Aids and Nutrition Research Network discussed ways, how the national or regional level [...]
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