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Pressure moving through a multiplex network
I get more and more convinced that we need to know the whole story to understand what happens in a network, the links are just the bones and without a discussion of their meaning, we often go so wrong… more →
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Pressure moving through a multiplex network
Eva Schiffer wrote 1 week ago: I get more and more convinced that we need to know the whole story to understand what happens in a n … more →
Do you know if someone you know knows someone else you know?
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Eva Schiffer wrote 3 months ago: This is a question that makes mapping networks tricky, if you go beyond everyone’s immediate l … more →
Social networks and XY
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Eva Schiffer wrote 4 months ago: That’s the really interesting stuff, combining the analysis of social networks with the analys … more →
"Reality is faith that smells of truth"
Eva Schiffer wrote 7 months ago: Paolo Brunello presented his Net-Map experience in ICT in Burundi at the International Conference on … more →
Best guess is a good guess
Eva Schiffer wrote 9 months ago: There is one thing that I often hear, when I do Net-Map interviews: People admit that they are not q … more →
Scale Free Thinking
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Eva Schiffer wrote 10 months ago: Most of what I write (here and elsewhere) is rather concrete, drawing from real world examples, own … more →
Julius Nyangaga about using SNA to understand innovation systems
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Eva Schiffer wrote 1 year ago: Dr Eva Schiffer recently took us (a group of researchers from the International Livestock Research I … more →
"Viral Explanation"
Eva Schiffer wrote 1 year ago: This is very important for you if you want your thinking to spread through your extended networks, b … more →
What is the best network structure?
Eva Schiffer wrote 1 year ago: This is often the underlying question when we map out networks: Participants are eager to know if th … more →
Visual Facilitation - in your head
Eva Schiffer wrote 1 year ago: There are a lot of cool visual facilitators out there who capture processes, discussions, results of … more →
Martin Luther King about Power and Love
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Eva Schiffer wrote 1 year ago: “Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength r … more →
How do we have to analyze this now?
Eva Schiffer wrote 1 year ago: I think my colleagues were hoping for the standard answer: If you draw a Net-Map, these are the step … more →
It's not about where you sit, but between which chairs you sit
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Eva Schiffer wrote 1 year ago: Together with my colleague Frank Hartwich from the Swiss College for Agriculture I am working on a p … more →
Wild thinkers and reliable doers: Fostering Innovation in Networks
Eva Schiffer wrote 1 year ago: It’s an old idea (but still strong I think) that heterogeneity in networks is linked to innova … more →
Early roots of Social Network Analysis
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Eva Schiffer wrote 1 year ago: “It may have been possible in the past, for things to have happened in isolation, but from thi … more →
Learning more about Social Network Analsyis
Eva Schiffer wrote 1 year ago: The Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev) community has a great Wiki which has an interestin … more →
Give and take
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Eva Schiffer wrote 1 year ago: I am so excited! By posting the invitation to our Net-Map training on the email lists of MandE (Rick … more →
Validate the map before you start driving
Eva Schiffer wrote 1 year ago: Imagine the following scenario: You are on a conference call with your colleagues and you plan how t … more →
Networks, control and the fear of loosing it
Eva Schiffer wrote 1 year ago: Talking with Nancy White and reading her last posts about community management triggered a whole net … more →
