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
On a quiet Saturday morning, my baby sleeps longer than I could hope for so I have a few minutes in which I could either finish a proposal, do the dishes or float around in the web, looking for one or two inspiring thoughts. By the fact that I am writing this post, you can [...]
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In our IFPRI project about “research into policy making” in Malawi we drew NetMaps with people who had very different levels of detail when describing the policy landscape. Some just talked about “the” Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, while others divided the ministry in several divisions and even individual positions. If we want to [...]
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I just received an email asking: Can you use Net-Map for mapping out future networks or does it only work for existing ones? My answer: There are a number of ways how you can use Net-Map to develop a vision of your future network: 1. You could draw a Net-Map of the existing situation. That [...]
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That’s what David Pelletier (the researcher, not the figure skater) said at an Alive and Thrive meeting some days ago. That’s what needs to happen in developing countries, above and beyond efficient and effective implementation of individual development projects. And I just thought: Wow, some people have such a way with words. That’s exactly what [...]
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This is question a lot of people ask me: Can we show network changes over time? Can we find out, if we made a difference? Will we even be involved long enough to be able to make a difference in people’s networks? Well, while networks evolve over time and you rarely know what the networks [...]
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My colleague Rick Davies has started a list of SNA software especially from the perspective of practitioners and consultants who want to use the software without spending a scholarly life of studying them first. Very interesting. With positive and negative aspects of different packages. If you know have experience to share, he’d appreciate comments. And [...]
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When I talk about Net-Map I often have people come to me afterward, telling me: “I once developed this awesome method for doing this and that, but somehow it never really caught on…” This makes me think of the friend who told me, when my first excitement about Net-Map had settled and I was ready [...]
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One new year’s resolution: Every day I will make a list of three things I am grateful for. Counting my blessings. Grand and mundane. My beautiful baby and the crunchy fennel and anything in between. Maybe I’ll start yoga or meditating or running next year. For this year, that’s about as much time as I’m [...]
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Eva, Just wanted to note — I took action as a result of the Net-Map session last week and things are moving in a better direction here as a result. The technique helped our team quickly get good perspective on how to advance the issue we are working on — key players, linkages between them, [...]
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Isn’t it strange, how the internet changes our offline life? I’ve moved into my neighborhood (Capitol Hill in Washington DC – also called “parentville”, because the baby-less are a small minority) a year and a half ago. And while I enjoyed the fact that people great you on the street right away, I didn’t feel [...]
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