Net-Map is an interview-based mapping tool that helps people understand, visualize, discuss, and improve situations in which many different actors influence outcomes. 
“One useful rule of thumb is to use network maps more for raising questions than for answering them” (Hoppe and Reinelt 2009)
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Growth
Posted on August 3, 2010 by Eva Schiffer
Profound moments happen at the unlikeliest times and places. This morning on the metro I was reading The Change Handbook (Holman, Devane and Cady) when all of a sudden I had a new insight about growth. I think it was spurred by their ideas about mastery. In the past months I have put much thought [...]
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Is process management just something for control freaks?
Posted on July 21, 2010 by Eva Schiffer
Sometimes misunderstandings in conversations seem to be my main learning opportunity. Maybe that’s one benefit of working in a context where I am not a native speaker… Today I presented Net-Map to my colleagues at AffinityLab and in the discussion afterward I said something about how great this tool would work for managing processes. What [...]
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Net-Map paper in Field Methods Journal
Posted on July 14, 2010 by Eva Schiffer
This paper focuses on how the method works, both for data collection and for facilitation of processes. If you are a regular at this blog, you know it all, but you’ll be glad to have it all in a condensed, quotable fashion. “Net-Map: Collecting Social Network Data and Facilitating Network Learning through Participatory Influence Network [...]
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I’m going to the office now!
Posted on July 12, 2010 by Eva Schiffer
I know, for many of you that’s nothing to write home (or a blog post) about and for some it might be just the daily drag… But after two years of working from the sofa-bed-kitchen-table-home-office, let me tell you, having to get properly dressed to go to work feels great. And having colleagues. But no [...]
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Capturing institutional memory…
Posted on June 29, 2010 by Eva Schiffer
Imagine someone has worked for your organization and your cause for 25 years. Or maybe for the same cause in different organizations. Or for the same organization but different causes or regions. As he or she approaches retirement the organization will not only loose the workforce that will leave when the person leaves, the 8 [...]
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Change: (You) say it, (I) do it (maybe…)
Posted on June 17, 2010 by Eva Schiffer
Or the other way round. There might be people out there, who find all the change they need within themselves. But when I look at how Net-Map moved from toys in a cookie tin to what it is now, I know that I met a significant guide at most of the important cross-roads. Someone who [...]
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Not these boring spaghetti all over again….
Posted on May 28, 2010 by Eva Schiffer
Roberta Amaral de Andrade from Brazil used Net-Map to get a better understanding of ” conflicts and opportunities for developing Jequitiba’s Forest Settlement Project”. She took the time to write a reflection (323 KB) of her experience and allowed me to share it. Two of the struggles she describes are actually rather typical, they are [...]
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Sum it up
Posted on May 25, 2010 by Eva Schiffer
Some weeks back I had a great discussion (or two…) with Siraj Sirajudin of Influence and he was excited about Net-Map. We drew a map about a change process that he facilitates at the moment and came up with a little powerful innovation in the corner of the map. The major driver or draw-back of [...]
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Can it be new if it makes so much sense?
Posted on May 12, 2010 by Eva Schiffer
I know there is even a name for it (but have forgotten what it is called): Sometimes research findings make so much sense, that everyone afterward says: “Well, that’s no surprise, I could have told you that… why did you have to waste so much time and money to find out something that is just [...]
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