Is process management just something for control freaks?

Sometimes misunderstandings in conversations seem to be my main learning opportunity. Maybe that’s one benefit of working in a context where I am not a native speaker…  Today I presented Net-Map to my colleagues at AffinityLab and in the discussion afterward I said something about how great this tool would work for managing processes. What [...]

Net-Map paper in Field Methods Journal

This paper focuses on how the method works, both for data collection and for facilitation of processes. If you are a regular at this blog, you know it all, but you’ll be glad to have it all in a condensed, quotable fashion. “Net-Map: Collecting Social Network Data and Facilitating Network Learning through Participatory Influence Network [...]

I’m going to the office now!

I know, for many of you that’s nothing to write home (or a blog post) about and for some it might be just the daily drag… But after two years of working from the sofa-bed-kitchen-table-home-office, let me tell you, having to get properly dressed to go to work feels great. And having colleagues. But no [...]

Who to involve in before-after-monitoring Net-Maps

I’m working with Alive & Thrive, a Gates Foundation funded project to improve young infant and child nutrition in a number of third world countries. Net-Map is part of the monitoring and evaluation component that is led by IFPRI. The question we are looking at at the moment is: If the project aims at changing [...]