A Network Evaluation Makes Collaboration Easier. If you’re involved in collaborative work, you know how difficult it can be. Whether it’s a political coalition, cross-sector network or alliance, or just a set of partnerships, managing a network is a unique challenge - totally different than [...]
Almost a decade ago, Dutch blogger Joitske Hulsebosch used a phrase in his blog that has stuck with me. The phrase has proved to be quite useful, and as relevant to networks today as back then. He wrote that the bigger challenge in a network [...]
Putting the analysis features of the PARTNER Tool online in the Dashboards has given us the opportunity at VNL to install a few upgrades to the already well loved PARTNER analysis tool. The legacy PARTNER Tool in excel allowed you to draw maps based on [...]
To Work Together Authentically, We Have To Be Comfortable With Knowing Perceptions Of Each Other A community partner on a project recently declared in a data meeting that “You cannot authentically engage people in a network unless you understand the perceptions we all have of [...]
Once you have collected data for your project, you are ready to begin building a report. The PARTNER Report Builder allows you to quickly and easily create a report about your findings that includes data visualizations, insights from the Visible Network Labs Insights Library, and [...]
In his article A Nation of Weavers, published in the New York Times on February 18, 2019, David Brooks articulates a precious opportunity: “If you can change the culture, you can change behavior on a large scale.” Brooks is referring to a broken culture creating [...]
Writing from a desk at a company that identifies as a Social Enterprise & Technology Start-Up, it might sound counterintuitive to say that we at Visible Network Labs do not believe that all “innovation” is synonymous with “technology.” Yes, we have amazing tech tools for [...]
Last week I had the pleasure to speak at the Forward Cities National Conference - a national gathering of people committed to building the ecosystem to support inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship. While most of this event was what I expected, what I did not expect was the [...]
You wake up in the morning and turn off your alarm. You get dressed in your jeans and button up shirt. You balance your cup of coffee in your hand as you lock your door. You ride the subway, looking at the ground, listening to [...]
Collective impact is hard. If you’ve ever done it, you know it beyond a doubt. If you’ve never done it, just read about the five conditions of collective impact and you’ll be able to guess how hard it would be to make it all work. [...]
