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Building, managing and evaluating networks and collaboration isn’t easy. Our Network Leadership Resources Library is the hub for all our combined resources: blogs, infographics, webinars, research, case studies and more. Search and filter by topic area and resource type to find what you need – all 100% free. Can’t find the network leadership resources or topics you need? Contact us with your idea and we’ll make it happen!
How Does Social Connectedness Influence Health?
Over the past four decades, a significant body of literature has demonstrated that there is a significant link between social connectedness – our relationships with others – and our health…
Meet the Social Support Research Fellows Helping Us Measure Social Connectedness
Strengthening a young person’s social connectedness and social support system can be vital as they encounter complexities on the road to becoming the person they want to be. Sponsored by…
Helping the Trenton Health Team Build a Better Community Network
VNL was recently highlighted by the Trenton Daily for our work with the Trenton Health Team. Read the article below. Trenton Health Team’s (THT) Community Advisory Board (CAB) includes more…
Meet our 2021 Summer Technology Interns
This summer we are excited to introduce our four Technology Team Interns. They’ll be working with our developers and designers to provide QA testing and UI/UX feedback, support the development…
Studying Counter-Human Trafficking Coalitions with PARTNER
Anyone who has tried building or leading a coalition knows how difficult it is. Given all the work that goes into these efforts, many researchers are focused on identifying the…
Meet our New Director of Research and Evaluation, Lea Xenakis
Our Research and Evalution Team just gained even more expertise with the addition of our newest team member. Lea Xenakis is joining Visible Network Labs as our Director of Research…
5 Critical Tasks for Effective Network Management
Managing a network of community partners is no easy task. Unlike typical hierarchical organizations, a network is horizontal with few formal mechanisms for accountability through control. Network leaders have to…
Conflict Resolution in Coalitions: Causes and Solutions
“I assume that every collaboration will bring conflict that must be managed” ⏤ Nancy Cantor Tweet Conflict in a coalition is normal – in fact, it’s usually a sign that…
Webinar: Networks and Health Equity, What’s the Connection?
How Can Networks Help Us Understand & Solve Health Inequity? In this VNL Network Leader webinar, Bria Thomas re-introduces the concept of health equity and then demonstrates how network and…
VNL is Participating in The RECETAS Project to Test if Nature-Based Social Prescribing Can Reduce Loneliness and Promote Mental Wellbeing in Cities
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Denver, CO (April 20, 2020) – Visible Network Labs was highlighted for its work on the RECETAS Project (R-imagining Environments for Connection and Engagement: Testing Actions for…
The Ethics of Social Network Analysis: What Could Go Wrong?
“Any tool can be used for good or bad. It’s really the ethics of the analyst using it.” ⏤ John Knoll Tweet Believe it or not, social network analysis has…
Systems Thinking and Network Science: 3 Common Areas of Focus
“Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing ‘patterns of change’ rather than ‘static snapshots.” ⏤ Peter Senge…
How I Learned Interdependence is a Strength, Not a Weakness
“Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of mankind as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.” Mohandas Gandhi Tweet Here at VNL, we talk a lot about…
NEW: Network Member Profiles
PARTNER continues to grow with the addition of our newest feature: Member Profiles! This exciting new tool allows you to focus in on specific members of your network, viewing all…
Network Centrality: Understanding Degree, Closeness & Betweenness Centrality
Network centrality is among the most well-known social network analysis metrics, measuring the degree to which a person or organization is central to a network. There are three different ways…
Using Network Bridges for Strategic Collaboration
It’s more and more common for people working towards social impact to build and work in networks to reach their shared goals. By sharing information and resources, coordinating their activity,…
SDOH Screening Tools: 5 Key Factors to Consider
The importance of the social determinants of health is becoming more and more well-known among healthcare providers and practitioners. By helping patients meet their social needs like housing, transportation, food…
PARTNER Trust and Value Metrics: A Brief
As the old saying goes, ‘garbage in, garbage out.’ If you aren’t asking the right questions during a social network analysis, you aren’t going to have reliable data to analyze…
Webinar: Ecosystem Mapping and Tracking with PARTNER
https://youtu.be/1EpAPAqmjSQ Ecosystem Mapping and Tracking Can Teach You a LOT. An ecosystem consists of all the organizations, individuals, programs, and other entities that interact and interconnect to affect the outcomes…
7 Things Social Network Analysis Can Teach You About Your Collaborative
Social network analysis has been around for many decades in academic circles, but it has only recently become a popular learning tool for networks and other collaboratives. For many decades…
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