Comments for Net-Map Toolbox http://netmap.wordpress.com Just another WordPress.com weblog Thu, 22 May 2008 01:22:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU Comment on About by Eva Schiffer http://netmap.wordpress.com/about/#comment-222 Eva Schiffer Tue, 20 May 2008 13:13:20 +0000 #comment-222 Dear Guy, can you be a bit more specific, what exactly do you mean? Either commenting here or via email (IFPRI-netmap@cgiar.org). Thanks Eva Dear Guy,
can you be a bit more specific, what exactly do you mean? Either commenting here or via email (IFPRI-netmap@cgiar.org). Thanks
Eva

]]> Comment on About by Guy Sharrock http://netmap.wordpress.com/about/#comment-221 Guy Sharrock Tue, 20 May 2008 08:18:04 +0000 #comment-221 Dear Eva Have you experience, or heard of others with experience of using Net-Map in a context of working in a consortium of development agencies? Many thanks, Guy Dear Eva
Have you experience, or heard of others with experience of using Net-Map in a context of working in a consortium of development agencies?
Many thanks,
Guy

]]> Comment on Process Mapping by Prakash Kashwan http://netmap.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/process-mapping/#comment-210 Prakash Kashwan Sun, 11 May 2008 15:42:11 +0000 http://netmap.wordpress.com/?p=156#comment-210 These are exciting times for anyone interested in methodological developments...I am sure, not only scholars and researchers but many in the policy community will be hugely interested in Regina's research on NREGS. NREGS hits at the intersection of development, governance, politics, and resource management. Net-map seems to be developing into quite a versatile tool. I am looking forward to learning more about the tool before eventually using it myself (and hopefully contribute a few cents of my own). These are exciting times for anyone interested in methodological developments…I am sure, not only scholars and researchers but many in the policy community will be hugely interested in Regina’s research on NREGS. NREGS hits at the intersection of development, governance, politics, and resource management. Net-map seems to be developing into quite a versatile tool. I am looking forward to learning more about the tool before eventually using it myself (and hopefully contribute a few cents of my own).

]]> Comment on Looking for free and easy SNA software by Steffen Schmuck-Soldan http://netmap.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/looking-for-free-and-easy-sna-software/#comment-198 Steffen Schmuck-Soldan Thu, 08 May 2008 18:05:02 +0000 http://netmap.wordpress.com/?p=164#comment-198 Are you looking for software your partners can use (possibly not familiar with SNA-concepts)? I haven´t found anything useful for this kind of target group. Me personally (being a half professional) still use Pajek, since it allows me to visualize relations almost simultanously. But still, it takes some commitment to discover the major functions of the software. Hope this helps, Steffen Are you looking for software your partners can use (possibly not familiar with SNA-concepts)? I haven´t found anything useful for this kind of target group. Me personally (being a half professional) still use Pajek, since it allows me to visualize relations almost simultanously. But still, it takes some commitment to discover the major functions of the software. Hope this helps,
Steffen

]]> Comment on About by Desalegn Shanko http://netmap.wordpress.com/about/#comment-196 Desalegn Shanko Thu, 08 May 2008 13:11:31 +0000 #comment-196 Dear Eva I conducted a factor analysis (FA) research about 13 years ago, which I hardly use it now. BUT emperical factor analysis is always applied in my day to day activity. Even one theory of FA says that empirical categorization of attributes is stronger than the theoretical. I have seen your net mapping at glance and without deep analysis it resemblees to me Path Analysis (PA). Please send us (for MandE) more reading on this idea. Dear Eva
I conducted a factor analysis (FA) research about 13 years ago, which I hardly use it now. BUT emperical factor analysis is always applied in my day to day activity. Even one theory of FA says that empirical categorization of attributes is stronger than the theoretical.
I have seen your net mapping at glance and without deep analysis it resemblees to me Path Analysis (PA). Please send us (for MandE) more reading on this idea.

]]> Comment on Do we really need to draw all these links? by Harriet Matsaert http://netmap.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/do-we-really-need-to-draw-all-these-links/#comment-195 Harriet Matsaert Thu, 08 May 2008 12:10:12 +0000 http://netmap.wordpress.com/?p=141#comment-195 Dear Eva I read about your website in Rick's M and E network and have finally managed to get on it and have a look. I'm so interested in what you are doing because I've also been mapping networks in the natural resources sector for some time. I will be doing some work with ILRI in Northern Kenya looking a pastoralists networks for financial services and risk management over the next few months. I am going to try some of the ideas you have mentioned on your blog - using different colours for different types of link is something I havent' done before, or influence towers. When we were mapping networks in Bangladesh we used the UCINET software to transform 'actor linkage matrices' into network maps. I wonder if you have experience with this, or have something more user friendly you would recommend. I will have a look at the visualiser software thats mentioned on your blog. Have you tried using 'actor linkage matrices' to summarise the links found in your maps? We have found these quite useful for identifying links we haven't considered (gaps in the matrix), and for monitoring and evaluating the impact of interventions on a network. I'd like to read more about how you have used the network mapping within a project cycle for planning, monitoring and evaluation. Didn't find any specific cases in the 'case study' section of your website. Can you recommend any links to read more. Thanks and look forward to sharing more ideas. All the best Harriet Dear Eva

I read about your website in Rick’s M and E network and have finally managed to get on it and have a look. I’m so interested in what you are doing because I’ve also been mapping networks in the natural resources sector for some time. I will be doing some work with ILRI in Northern Kenya looking a pastoralists networks for financial services and risk management over the next few months. I am going to try some of the ideas you have mentioned on your blog - using different colours for different types of link is something I havent’ done before, or influence towers.

When we were mapping networks in Bangladesh we used the UCINET software to transform ‘actor linkage matrices’ into network maps. I wonder if you have experience with this, or have something more user friendly you would recommend. I will have a look at the visualiser software thats mentioned on your blog.

Have you tried using ‘actor linkage matrices’ to summarise the links found in your maps? We have found these quite useful for identifying links we haven’t considered (gaps in the matrix), and for monitoring and evaluating the impact of interventions on a network.

I’d like to read more about how you have used the network mapping within a project cycle for planning, monitoring and evaluation. Didn’t find any specific cases in the ‘case study’ section of your website. Can you recommend any links to read more.

Thanks and look forward to sharing more ideas.

All the best

Harriet

]]> Comment on About by Bilash Mitra http://netmap.wordpress.com/about/#comment-175 Bilash Mitra Tue, 06 May 2008 03:46:27 +0000 #comment-175 Dear Eva, Just read out the net mapping exercise, I found new things from that and thought I should comments for your efforts. I also love to use different participatory visual exercise to assess outcome status as M&E person. So I am expecting more new participatory tools from your site. Thanks, Bilash Dear Eva,
Just read out the net mapping exercise, I found new things from that and thought I should comments for your efforts. I also love to use different participatory visual exercise to assess outcome status as M&E person. So I am expecting more new participatory tools from your site.

Thanks,
Bilash

]]> Comment on Net-Map Training in Washington by Monitoring and Evaluation NEWS » Blog Archive » Net-Map Training in Washington http://netmap.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/net-map-training-in-washington/#comment-173 Monitoring and Evaluation NEWS » Blog Archive » Net-Map Training in Washington Mon, 05 May 2008 18:32:39 +0000 http://netmap.wordpress.com/?p=154#comment-173 [...] Net-Map Training in Washington 5 May, 2008 – 7:32 pm Posted on May 1, 2008 by Eva Schiffer, (on her website, Net-Map Toolbox: Influence mapping of social networks) [...] [...] Net-Map Training in Washington 5 May, 2008 – 7:32 pm Posted on May 1, 2008 by Eva Schiffer, (on her website, Net-Map Toolbox: Influence mapping of social networks) [...]

]]> Comment on Marathon Chicken vs Whitebreasts by Eva Schiffer http://netmap.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/marathon-chicken-vs-whitebreasts/#comment-140 Eva Schiffer Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:57:43 +0000 http://netmap.wordpress.com/?p=146#comment-140 Sure, but apart from being smart, these local chickens are also a different breed from the "improved but street-stupid white-fleshed chicken". So while they are looking for increased scale and quality of production, they might focus on producing more chicken of the breeds that taste the way Ethiopians like it, instead of breeding all the taste away... Sure, but apart from being smart, these local chickens are also a different breed from the “improved but street-stupid white-fleshed chicken”. So while they are looking for increased scale and quality of production, they might focus on producing more chicken of the breeds that taste the way Ethiopians like it, instead of breeding all the taste away…

]]> Comment on Marathon Chicken vs Whitebreasts by Prakash Kashwan http://netmap.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/marathon-chicken-vs-whitebreasts/#comment-138 Prakash Kashwan Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:44:11 +0000 http://netmap.wordpress.com/?p=146#comment-138 I think the problem is with the mode of production not in its contents. In other words, once you put Marathon Chicken into large scale industrial production process, it no longer remains "street smart". Am I making sense? I think the problem is with the mode of production not in its contents. In other words, once you put Marathon Chicken into large scale industrial production process, it no longer remains “street smart”. Am I making sense?

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