Steve Waddell of Networking Action Excerpts from an excellent blog from ValueNetworks.com colleague and customer, Steve Waddell of Networking Action We can easily be overwhelmed by the complexity of large networks where there are many different organizations and people involved. Clearly “seeing” relationships between organizations, people, and key concepts is important for successful network strategies. To vastly enhance and speed understanding of these relationships, I’ve worked with various forms of “mapping”. Network

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