This month we welcomed two new staffers to our Projects Team! This week we spoke with the first of our two new team members, Dr. Amanda Beacom, Senior Network Scientist, to get to know her better. Next week, check back for our discussion with Kyle [...]
A common request that we receive from users of the PARTNER Platform is the ability to share a project with another user. In the legacy PARTNER Tool, the only option to achieve this goal was to have multiple users sharing the password to a single [...]
If you're part of a network of organizations working towards a common goal, you know that conflict and discord is inevitable. While we often agree on a great deal, no two partners agree on everything. When making major decisions, about long-term strategy, goal-setting or funding, [...]
People collaborate for a simple reason: We find value from building networks with other individuals and organizations. We can do more together than we can alone. However we often view value one-dimensionally through the context of our needs. For example, if we feel we need [...]
My wife and I have a tradition of watching the sunrise together every year on our anniversary. The first time was on the day we got married. Like most couples, we had planned to spend the day apart until meeting at the end of the [...]
What can a freeway, seven ducklings and a construction worker teach you about Network Leadership? To my surprise, last year they all taught me quite a bit!Last year, my morning commute from Boulder to Denver included a part of the highway that Coloradoans used to [...]
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 [...]
