We are are planning 2 Net-Map workshops in Washington DC this year. There are some more workshops planned in other parts of the world (e.g. Kenya in May and Pakistan in April)– so stay tuned. MORE
Come summer and it is that time of the year to immerse into mapping your complex networks. The two day Net-Map workshop teaches you basic understanding of the method, with emphasis on learning by drawing your network. MORE
I recently went on a mission to Cameroon, where one of my tasks was to facilitate a workshop with about 100 participants. Cameroon is a bilingual country – but that doesn’t mean all Cameroonians are bilingual. MORE
“Monster, I see you!” ” (picture copyright by puuikibeach on flickr). I’m just back from a trip to a not so democratic nation in Africa and from an amazing Net-Mapping session with urban water managers. MORE
I cannot fly! I know that from experience! Change Management musings opportunities original Artwork personal development Uncategorized Caterpillar Change Musings New Year''s Resolution Original Artwork Personal Growth Refusal for Fly MORE
We offer Net-Map certification courses on 4 levels: Level 1: Net-Map Facilitation. Level 2: Net-Map Qualitative and Visual Data Collection and Analysis. Level 3: Net-Map Quantitative Data Collection and Analysis. Level 4: Net-Map Mastery – Train the Trainer. Join us for a 2 day, Level 1 Net-Map class on the 4.-5. of August in Washington DC! You will learn how to use this pen-and-paper method in meetings, individual interviews and to structure your own thinking process. MORE
by Jennifer Hauck at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research - UFZ / Department of Environmental Politics. Would you be interested in presenting your Net-Map work at the at the Sunbelt XXXV , Brighton, UK, June 23– June 28, 2015, the largest annual conference of Social Network Analysis, organized by the International Network for Social Network Analysis ( INSNA )? MORE
The most interesting aspect of teaching Net-Map is that our participants bring their own cases to map, so that they can learn how to apply the method to their own problems. MORE
I am just back from work in Southern Africa. And while I was in a specific country with it’s specifically difficult political context, the question that keept us awake at night was rather universal: How can we influence without much formal authority? MORE
Clever-Bully (picture by Diamond Select Toys). I’ve been teaching Net-Map a lot, lately. MORE
With my colleagues Kerstin Tebbe and Bruno Laporte I just had an interesting design conversation for a session in which they want to help the members of a water basin commission better understand with whom they have knowledge exchange partnerships. MORE
You want to understand the politics of a reform, manage the people side of your business, evaluate complex projects or do engaging qualitative, quantitative and visual network research? The most engaging part of a Net-Map training that is open to everyone is the diversity of participants. MORE
Crow brings the daylight, by Ruth Meharg. My work often involves getting familiar with a new country and sector in a short amount of time, discussing challenges with many different stakeholders and together developing and implementing strategies for change. MORE
In one of my leadership trainings I had a number of mid-level managers draw Net-Maps around personal career goals: Who will influence that I reach this goal? One participant enthusiastically drew a complex map and when she reported back to the group we realized that she knew something about everyone on the map, including their big and small dirty secrets. MORE
Someone who looks like you should not be invading our space (image by Cindy Faust). I just had an interesting conversation with a friend about a very specific kind of uncomfortable interaction we experience as we move forward in our career and become more successful. MORE
Writing it on the wall will not make you a leader, sorry. picture by Ziggy_Mo on Flickr). We often talk about leaders and what we actually mean is “people who sit in a high position in a formal hierarchy”, people in so called leadership positions. MORE
(Veleripieris circle by Kenneth Myers). The map is not the territory. A map in the scale 1:1 would be useless – and cover the whole area that it intends to depict. In each map, you have to choose what story you want to tell. MORE
That’s one way of getting your message accross – just throw it at them… (picture copyright by Emily Layla). A member of our new Net-Map LinkedIn Group asked about how Net-Map can be used to improve the effectiveness of advocacy groups. MORE
Understand how people and their networks influence your (project) success – learn Net – Map! You are curious about network analysis but what you read about it sounds extremely technical, confusing and abstract? MORE
We know the sound of two hands clapping – what is the sound that one hand contributes… (picture by rs snaps on flickr). MORE
If you look at any great change, in your organization, in history, and you ask people to describe who this happened, most likely you will get one of these two stories: Story 1. It’s all about the people: There was this inspired leader, or evil man, or group of passionate individuals, or conspirators, or clever people, who came up with this grand idea who made all of this happen. MORE
Is it as easy as child’s play? image by [link] ). I always try to speak about my work in a way that everyone can understand me – whether they are experts in my field or not. MORE
If let to your own devices… what kind of web would you weave (picture copyright by Misserion on flickr). “It’s not what you know, but who you know.” MORE
Perfection is the dead end road that leads to a castle with closed doors (picture copyright by wiseGeek). It has become fashionable in job interviews to ask applicants about their greatest weakness. MORE
If you want to protect new-born babies from dying of preventable cause, who do you talk to? The Ministry of Health, right? Because it is their mandate. And their expertise. And they get the funding to do it. Well, do they? MORE
I could spend days surfing the 777 different projects that the visualcomplexity project has gathered, some of them amaze me because of what they are about, more of them just because they are so beautiful. Some examples, just to get you started. MORE
A Net-Map study on formal and informal water governance in Vietnam , by Nadine Reis and Peter P. MORE
How about hanging out at the beach, learning Net-Map and meeting about 1000 highly intelligent social network analysis experts of every discipline, who do everything from crazy complex quantitative stuff to anthropologically observing network development on the ground? MORE
Farmers in Ethiopia (picture credit Stevie Mann, ILRI). … and what role their formal and informal networks play in this. Let me share some of the work my former colleagues at IFPRI have been doing with Net-Map. MORE
What can I learn from someone so different? picture copyright by Temari 09 on flickr). So, you read my post about the participant who drives you crazy because you feel like looking in a mirror with bad lighting. MORE
What organizational culture might these ladies be brewing? copyright by PumpkinWayne on Flickr). MORE
At our trainings you dive into using Net-Map in your own context pretty quickly. Last fall one of our participants actually took a break from the map he was drawing because it made him realize that he had to make a few phone calls to some key influencers that he had not been quite aware of. MORE
. The Fairview Hotel in Nairobi, where the training will be held. It started with a simple request many months ago: Kentice Tikolo of the Kenya based strategy communications firm Impact Africa asked me: What do I need to do to learn Net-Map? MORE
Albert O. Hirschman. MORE
(Picture copyright Lydia on flickr). MORE
(Picture by Alan Cleaver on flickr). How do you deal with situations you are not 100% comfortable with? How do you approach your work and your family life when it gets stressful? Are you quick to blame others for whatever goes wrong? MORE
We have to finalize some of the details, but the date is set, so mark it in your calendar: Our next two day Net-Map training workshop will be in Washington, DC, on Friday the 1st and Saturday the 2nd of November. MORE
This paper uses Net-Map for qualitative data collection on the use of agricultural extension in Ethiopia, especially understanding the role of women (authors: Tewodaj Mogues, Marc J. Cohen, Regina Birner, Mamusha Lemma, Josee Randriamamonjy, Fanaye Tadesse and Zelekawork Paulos). MORE
When I work with people who know nothing about network analysis… (picture copyright Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary). Next week I’ll be a very small fish – at the annual conference of the International Network of Social Network Analysis in Hamburg, Germany. MORE
giving money, Are you connected by sausage links? copyright by stevendepolo on Flickr). MORE
In the past year I have taken a deep dive into visual thinking and finally, seven years after developing Net-Map in the hot, dusty North of Ghana, I understood why it leads to the insights and transformations it facilitates. MORE
Net-Map Toolbox
SEPTEMBER 14, 2015
Understand how people and their networks influence your (project) success – learn Net – Map! You are curious about network analysis but what you read about it sounds extremely technical, confusing and abstract?
Net-Map Toolbox
FEBRUARY 2, 2016
Crow brings the daylight, by Ruth Meharg. My work often involves getting familiar with a new country and sector in a short amount of time, discussing challenges with many different stakeholders and together developing and implementing strategies for change.
Net-Map Toolbox
SEPTEMBER 24, 2013
(Picture by Alan Cleaver on flickr). How do you deal with situations you are not 100% comfortable with? How do you approach your work and your family life when it gets stressful? Are you quick to blame others for whatever goes wrong?
Net-Map Toolbox
MAY 25, 2014
At our trainings you dive into using Net-Map in your own context pretty quickly. Last fall one of our participants actually took a break from the map he was drawing because it made him realize that he had to make a few phone calls to some key influencers that he had not been quite aware of.
Net-Map Toolbox
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
I recently went on a mission to Cameroon, where one of my tasks was to facilitate a workshop with about 100 participants. Cameroon is a bilingual country – but that doesn’t mean all Cameroonians are bilingual.
Net-Map Toolbox
MAY 26, 2013
You want to understand the politics of a reform, manage the people side of your business, evaluate complex projects or do engaging qualitative, quantitative and visual network research? The most engaging part of a Net-Map training that is open to everyone is the diversity of participants.
Net-Map Toolbox
APRIL 23, 2013
“Monster, I see you!” ” (picture copyright by puuikibeach on flickr). I’m just back from a trip to a not so democratic nation in Africa and from an amazing Net-Mapping session with urban water managers.
Net-Map Toolbox
JANUARY 31, 2014
Perfection is the dead end road that leads to a castle with closed doors (picture copyright by wiseGeek). It has become fashionable in job interviews to ask applicants about their greatest weakness.
Net-Map Toolbox
DECEMBER 10, 2013
(Veleripieris circle by Kenneth Myers). The map is not the territory. A map in the scale 1:1 would be useless – and cover the whole area that it intends to depict. In each map, you have to choose what story you want to tell.
Net-Map Toolbox
MAY 20, 2015
How about hanging out at the beach, learning Net-Map and meeting about 1000 highly intelligent social network analysis experts of every discipline, who do everything from crazy complex quantitative stuff to anthropologically observing network development on the ground?
Net-Map Toolbox
APRIL 11, 2014
We are are planning 2 Net-Map workshops in Washington DC this year. There are some more workshops planned in other parts of the world (e.g. Kenya in May and Pakistan in April)– so stay tuned.
Net-Map Toolbox
APRIL 29, 2014
. The Fairview Hotel in Nairobi, where the training will be held. It started with a simple request many months ago: Kentice Tikolo of the Kenya based strategy communications firm Impact Africa asked me: What do I need to do to learn Net-Map?
Net-Map Toolbox
OCTOBER 10, 2014
Farmers in Ethiopia (picture credit Stevie Mann, ILRI). … and what role their formal and informal networks play in this. Let me share some of the work my former colleagues at IFPRI have been doing with Net-Map.
Net-Map Toolbox
OCTOBER 18, 2012
Writing it on the wall will not make you a leader, sorry. picture by Ziggy_Mo on Flickr). We often talk about leaders and what we actually mean is “people who sit in a high position in a formal hierarchy”, people in so called leadership positions.
Net-Map Toolbox
OCTOBER 24, 2013
The most interesting aspect of teaching Net-Map is that our participants bring their own cases to map, so that they can learn how to apply the method to their own problems.
Net-Map Toolbox
SEPTEMBER 6, 2013
We have to finalize some of the details, but the date is set, so mark it in your calendar: Our next two day Net-Map training workshop will be in Washington, DC, on Friday the 1st and Saturday the 2nd of November.
Net-Map Toolbox
AUGUST 14, 2013
That’s one way of getting your message accross – just throw it at them… (picture copyright by Emily Layla). A member of our new Net-Map LinkedIn Group asked about how Net-Map can be used to improve the effectiveness of advocacy groups.
Net-Map Toolbox
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
If let to your own devices… what kind of web would you weave (picture copyright by Misserion on flickr). “It’s not what you know, but who you know.”
Net-Map Toolbox
OCTOBER 24, 2014
I could spend days surfing the 777 different projects that the visualcomplexity project has gathered, some of them amaze me because of what they are about, more of them just because they are so beautiful. Some examples, just to get you started.
Net-Map Toolbox
AUGUST 23, 2013
Clever-Bully (picture by Diamond Select Toys). I’ve been teaching Net-Map a lot, lately.
Net-Map Toolbox
JANUARY 24, 2017
I am just back from work in Southern Africa. And while I was in a specific country with it’s specifically difficult political context, the question that keept us awake at night was rather universal: How can we influence without much formal authority?
Net-Map Toolbox
FEBRUARY 3, 2013
We know the sound of two hands clapping – what is the sound that one hand contributes… (picture by rs snaps on flickr).
Net-Map Toolbox
DECEMBER 30, 2015
A Net-Map study on formal and informal water governance in Vietnam , by Nadine Reis and Peter P.
Net-Map Toolbox
JULY 17, 2013
If you want to protect new-born babies from dying of preventable cause, who do you talk to? The Ministry of Health, right? Because it is their mandate. And their expertise. And they get the funding to do it. Well, do they?
Net-Map Toolbox
JUNE 30, 2014
(Picture copyright Lydia on flickr).
Net-Map Toolbox
MARCH 29, 2012
What organizational culture might these ladies be brewing? copyright by PumpkinWayne on Flickr).
Net-Map Toolbox
JUNE 11, 2012
giving money, Are you connected by sausage links? copyright by stevendepolo on Flickr).
Net-Map Toolbox
JUNE 7, 2011
We offer Net-Map certification courses on 4 levels: Level 1: Net-Map Facilitation. Level 2: Net-Map Qualitative and Visual Data Collection and Analysis. Level 3: Net-Map Quantitative Data Collection and Analysis. Level 4: Net-Map Mastery – Train the Trainer. Join us for a 2 day, Level 1 Net-Map class on the 4.-5. of August in Washington DC! You will learn how to use this pen-and-paper method in meetings, individual interviews and to structure your own thinking process.
Net-Map Toolbox
JULY 26, 2016
This paper uses Net-Map for qualitative data collection on the use of agricultural extension in Ethiopia, especially understanding the role of women (authors: Tewodaj Mogues, Marc J. Cohen, Regina Birner, Mamusha Lemma, Josee Randriamamonjy, Fanaye Tadesse and Zelekawork Paulos).
Net-Map Toolbox
JANUARY 29, 2015
Come summer and it is that time of the year to immerse into mapping your complex networks. The two day Net-Map workshop teaches you basic understanding of the method, with emphasis on learning by drawing your network.
Net-Map Toolbox
JANUARY 6, 2014
I cannot fly! I know that from experience! Change Management musings opportunities original Artwork personal development Uncategorized Caterpillar Change Musings New Year''s Resolution Original Artwork Personal Growth Refusal for Fly
Net-Map Toolbox
JANUARY 2, 2014
In the past year I have taken a deep dive into visual thinking and finally, seven years after developing Net-Map in the hot, dusty North of Ghana, I understood why it leads to the insights and transformations it facilitates.
Net-Map Toolbox
NOVEMBER 5, 2012
If you look at any great change, in your organization, in history, and you ask people to describe who this happened, most likely you will get one of these two stories: Story 1. It’s all about the people: There was this inspired leader, or evil man, or group of passionate individuals, or conspirators, or clever people, who came up with this grand idea who made all of this happen.
Net-Map Toolbox
MAY 14, 2013
When I work with people who know nothing about network analysis… (picture copyright Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary). Next week I’ll be a very small fish – at the annual conference of the International Network of Social Network Analysis in Hamburg, Germany.
Net-Map Toolbox
DECEMBER 12, 2012
In one of my leadership trainings I had a number of mid-level managers draw Net-Maps around personal career goals: Who will influence that I reach this goal? One participant enthusiastically drew a complex map and when she reported back to the group we realized that she knew something about everyone on the map, including their big and small dirty secrets.
Net-Map Toolbox
MARCH 19, 2013
What can I learn from someone so different? picture copyright by Temari 09 on flickr). So, you read my post about the participant who drives you crazy because you feel like looking in a mirror with bad lighting.
Net-Map Toolbox
NOVEMBER 2, 2014
by Jennifer Hauck at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research - UFZ / Department of Environmental Politics. Would you be interested in presenting your Net-Map work at the at the Sunbelt XXXV , Brighton, UK, June 23– June 28, 2015, the largest annual conference of Social Network Analysis, organized by the International Network for Social Network Analysis ( INSNA )?
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