Comments for Net-Map Toolbox http://netmap.ifpriblog.org Just another WordPress.com weblog Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:36:08 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on It’s like magic! But what does it mean? by Jamie Factor http://netmap.ifpriblog.org/2009/11/03/its-like-magic-but-what-does-it-mean/#comment-1511 Jamie Factor Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:36:08 +0000 http://netmap.ifpriblog.org/?p=690#comment-1511 It is not only magic, it actually works ! Some years ago, while leading a local government training program in the Balkans, we conducted a series of training-of-trainers workshops. At the start of each session, we'd put up a white board and ask TOT participants to indicate which other participants they had followed up with, what new contacts they had made, and where they hoped these interactions might lead in future. The result looked something like the inside of a golf ball ! It was fantastically illuminating for them and for me - and I've sworn by such similar exercises ever since. It is not only magic, it actually works ! Some years ago, while leading a local government training program in the Balkans, we conducted a series of training-of-trainers workshops. At the start of each session, we’d put up a white board and ask TOT participants to indicate which other participants they had followed up with, what new contacts they had made, and where they hoped these interactions might lead in future. The result looked something like the inside of a golf ball ! It was fantastically illuminating for them and for me – and I’ve sworn by such similar exercises ever since.

]]> Comment on About by William Wardlaw Rogers http://netmap.ifpriblog.org/about/#comment-1501 William Wardlaw Rogers Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:13:28 +0000 #comment-1501 My dissertation looked at crowdsourcing development criteria in an analog environment with naive ethnography. Parts of it were identifying cultural assets within community behaviour. Contact and influence are underpinning elements to that and link into the participatory resource mapping.. This is very cool - Find me on Facebook and would love to have a chat with others in this arena. Also be interested to know if this field has a name... Not specifically the social network mapping but the idea of using analog to represent digital - especially taking it into low resource states e.g community development. My dissertation looked at crowdsourcing development criteria in an analog environment with naive ethnography.

Parts of it were identifying cultural assets within community behaviour.

Contact and influence are underpinning elements to that and link into the participatory resource mapping..

This is very cool – Find me on Facebook and would love to have a chat with others in this arena.

Also be interested to know if this field has a name…
Not specifically the social network mapping but the idea of using analog to represent digital – especially taking it into low resource states e.g community development.

]]> Comment on It’s like magic! But what does it mean? by Paolo Brunello http://netmap.ifpriblog.org/2009/11/03/its-like-magic-but-what-does-it-mean/#comment-1500 Paolo Brunello Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:49:51 +0000 http://netmap.ifpriblog.org/?p=690#comment-1500 Loved it. Every single word. Loved it. Every single word.

]]> Comment on Getting VisuaLyzer by It’s like magic! But what does it mean? « Net-Map Toolbox http://netmap.ifpriblog.org/2008/06/13/getting-visualyzer/#comment-1499 It’s like magic! But what does it mean? « Net-Map Toolbox Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:09:11 +0000 http://netmap.wordpress.com/?p=189#comment-1499 [...] The questionnaire was administered by the people at Cross Analytics (at 4 US$ per participant they did a pretty good job in terms of support etc.) and all I had to do was wait for the results to be delivered to me in the square matrix format I need to enter it into Visualyzer. [...] [...] The questionnaire was administered by the people at Cross Analytics (at 4 US$ per participant they did a pretty good job in terms of support etc.) and all I had to do was wait for the results to be delivered to me in the square matrix format I need to enter it into Visualyzer. [...]

]]> Comment on Webfind: Kids give back by Mike http://netmap.ifpriblog.org/2008/11/03/webfind-kids-give-back/#comment-1464 Mike Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:04:41 +0000 http://netmap.wordpress.com/?p=364#comment-1464 Wow, what a great story! Thanks so much for posting. ‘Giving back’ is such an important concept. And if kids learn its importance, early, wow – that’s awesome. Patti told us her story a while back about how her kids seemed to have absorbed this message early, and how she decided to take it one step further and pass it along. You can check out her video at the link below. I really hope you like it. http://www.ahamoment.com/vote/patti Wow, what a great story! Thanks so much for posting.
‘Giving back’ is such an important concept. And if kids learn its importance, early, wow – that’s awesome.
Patti told us her story a while back about how her kids seemed to have absorbed this message early, and how she decided to take it one step further and pass it along.
You can check out her video at the link below. I really hope you like it.
http://www.ahamoment.com/vote/patti

]]> Comment on Quote of the day: About social networks and being poor – or not being poor by Mouly http://netmap.ifpriblog.org/2009/10/28/quote-of-the-day-about-social-networks-and-being-poor-or-not-being-poor/#comment-1454 Mouly Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:26:02 +0000 http://netmap.ifpriblog.org/?p=686#comment-1454 Inspiring quote Inspiring quote

]]> Comment on Case Studies by Ronaldo Richieri » links for 2009-10-27 http://netmap.ifpriblog.org/case-studies/#comment-1445 Ronaldo Richieri » links for 2009-10-27 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:06:49 +0000 http://netmap.wordpress.com/case-studies/#comment-1445 [...] Case Studies « Net-Map Toolbox (tags: sna ars) Publicado em Links no Delicious. 745No Comments »http://www.richieri.com/lang/pt-br/2009/10/27/links-for-2009-10-27links+for+2009-10-272009-10-27+16%3A06%3A34richieri [...] [...] Case Studies « Net-Map Toolbox (tags: sna ars) Publicado em Links no Delicious. 745No Comments »http://www.richieri.com/lang/pt-br/2009/10/27/links-for-2009-10-27links+for+2009-10-272009-10-27+16%3A06%3A34richieri [...]

]]> Comment on Just because they can?! by How to discuss a bowl of spaghetti? « Net-Map Toolbox http://netmap.ifpriblog.org/2009/09/10/just-because-they-can/#comment-1371 How to discuss a bowl of spaghetti? « Net-Map Toolbox Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:20:42 +0000 http://netmap.ifpriblog.org/?p=642#comment-1371 [...] Just because they can?! [...] [...] Just because they can?! [...]

]]> Comment on About by Eva Schiffer http://netmap.ifpriblog.org/about/#comment-1367 Eva Schiffer Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:04:22 +0000 #comment-1367 Dear Pablo, Great that you are planning to carry Net-Map into the corporate world. I am very interested to hear about your experience. One recommendation: If you want to understand "communication" links, try being rather specific, or you might end up with a messy bowl of spaghetti, because everyone somehow communicates with everyone else... We are still looking for a tool-box producer but you'll see if you download the manual on this page that you can easily assemble the parts you need to use the approach. Please don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions. Dear Pablo,
Great that you are planning to carry Net-Map into the corporate world. I am very interested to hear about your experience. One recommendation: If you want to understand “communication” links, try being rather specific, or you might end up with a messy bowl of spaghetti, because everyone somehow communicates with everyone else… We are still looking for a tool-box producer but you’ll see if you download the manual on this page that you can easily assemble the parts you need to use the approach. Please don’t hesitate to ask if you have any questions.

]]> Comment on They can’t steal what you share by Eva Schiffer http://netmap.ifpriblog.org/2009/09/25/they-cant-steal-what-you-share/#comment-1366 Eva Schiffer Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:01:16 +0000 http://netmap.ifpriblog.org/?p=645#comment-1366 "Live in the cloud"? What cloud? The strange thing is that it reminds me so much of Ghana, where my best friend got burglarized three times by a thief who drank her milk but not the gin and we knew who it was and could see his house just behind her back yard, but he was never caught. In the time my friend was his neighbour he didn't only improve his nutrition (by drinking her milk), but was also able to put a new tin roof on his an extension to his mud hut... Through our police friends and our rough neighborhood friends here we have a pretty good idea who our thief is and he can look into our house from his mom's balcony - but, alas, we can't prove it. “Live in the cloud”? What cloud?

The strange thing is that it reminds me so much of Ghana, where my best friend got burglarized three times by a thief who drank her milk but not the gin and we knew who it was and could see his house just behind her back yard, but he was never caught. In the time my friend was his neighbour he didn’t only improve his nutrition (by drinking her milk), but was also able to put a new tin roof on his an extension to his mud hut…

Through our police friends and our rough neighborhood friends here we have a pretty good idea who our thief is and he can look into our house from his mom’s balcony – but, alas, we can’t prove it.

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