Quote of the day: About social networks and being poor – or not being poor

“I don’t have much by way of possessions, a lady riding the bus to Montgomery once told me. But, she said, I do have a lot of belongings. I belong to my family, my people, my church. And they belong to me. With all the mouths I feed, she continued, looking out the window, I [...]

How can we make this less boring?

Today I met with Natalie Campbell, who works for Management Sciences for Health and was really interested in how to best map out the relationships between their communications group and the rest of the organization. If we start with the picture of a traditional communications group, which mainly serves as a hub in a hub-and-spoke [...]

Online-Offline-Neighborood-Network

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 [...]

How to discuss a bowl of spaghetti?

In an email exchange Roberta Amaral, who is preparing a Portuguese version of the Net-Map manual, asked: “How do you discuss a messy map at the end of an interview?” What you need to do to work the network magic is to take all this abundance of detail and simplify it by adding focus and [...]