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
I get more and more convinced that we need to know the whole story to understand what happens in a network, the links are just the bones and without a discussion of their meaning, we often go so wrong in interpreting them. For example, think about about how influence – or pressure – can move [...]
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Viv McWater’s blog is one of the places I go to for inspiration. And she got me again. This time with her thoughts about scaling talent, which means (as I understand) making the impact of talent felt on a level that is higher or bigger than the talented individual. She quotes Joel Spolsky comparing Big [...]
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Yesterday I prepared this one page guide to entering Net-Map data (236 KB) in an Excel file, so that it’s easy to import into VisuaLyzer or other social network analysis programs. I wrote this up for our IFPRI colleagues in Malawi, who are drawing Net-Maps with policy makers and others about fertilizer subsidies to understand [...]
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I’m normally someone to make decisions in a heartbeat, stick with them and generally speaking, fare rather well with that approach. I have a number of friends though, who labor – endlessly it seems – over decisions and just can’t make up their minds. And, lately, I have found myself doing quite a bit of [...]
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Imagine putting 60 people in a box and shaking it like crazy. Then you walk away and have no idea what will happen next. That’s the feeling I had after an exciting Net-Mapping session with a group of development and knowledge management professionals at our SID workshop last Tuesday. I had warned the participants beforehand [...]
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“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” Abraham Lincoln
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It will be wild and fast and frustrating. We have far too little time but still want to do everything. So, what it will be in the end is a (substantial) starter to make wet your appetite for the main course. As it says in the invitation: “Influence Mapping of Social Networks – A presentation [...]
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I’ve been mapping networks for some years now but in the past months I have used a more traditional approach to social network analysis for the first time. In a project with the United Nations University, we (Nancy White and I) are tasked to find out how their networks are structured and to initiate a [...]
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The Society for International Development in Washington DC will host another knowledge management event next week and they are giving me the chance to talk about Net-Map there. If you are interested, it’s a public brown bag seminar and it’s on the 10th of November, from 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.. You can register here.
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