When you’re making a system map in Kumu, it’s important to have skill and familiarity with the tool itself, but it’s equally important to have an understanding of the concepts…
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Network Mapping and Analysis : How-to Guide | Societal Platform
Societal Platform Thinking emphasises the importance of network effects and facilitating interactions between and within formal and informal networks, involving state (sarkaar), civil society (samaaj) and markets (bazaar), to catalyse…
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How to Use the Web Version of Jamboard
This post is a great addition to the information offered in the last week’s post: Using Jamboard for Network Mapping. You can download the guide in today’s post HERE as…
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Using Jamboard for Network Mapping
This post can be downloaded in the Network Mapping Module : Post-It Note Mapping, along with 5 different processes for mapping your networks. Google Drive has a new option called…
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Ripple Effect Mapping
Because networks often engage many people, some of whom are only occasionally involved, it is harder to track the impact of the network. One solution to this might be the…
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A Loosely-Woven Basket to Contain a Thought
In Whose Story Is This? (A Hero Is a Disaster, 2019), Rebecca Solnit reminds us of Ursula Le Guin’s proposal of “the bottle as hero.” By this Le Guin means…
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Navigating Uncertainty to Gain the Real Value of Collaboration
PART 1 Investing in Collaboration A client recently called us her “network therapists.” She works for a foundation and was helping launch a network. The foundation saw that if organizations…
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A Co-Inspirational Feed-Back Loop with Eugene Cooke
Eugene Cooke is an Agroecologist and urban farmer with experience from California to Kenya. He’s the founder of Grow Where You Are, is currently located in Atlanta and is focused on…
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Map 13: A guide to chart the future course of philanthropy
In his 2012 book, ‘A History of the World in Twelve Maps’, Jerry Brotton takes the reader through a tour of twelve maps that were created in twelve distinct moments…
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Can Systems Mapping Help Build Equitable Climate Resilience?
Water Foundation program officer Alex Paxton shares how LA leaders are using systems mapping to create a more resilient and just future for all residents. Last November, Los Angeles County…
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