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Meet our New Full Stack Engineer, Kāhea Hendrickson
This summer we are ramping up our Development capacity with the addition of two new Full Stack Engineers to our team. This week we’re introducing Kāhea Hendrickson, one of our…
Meet our New Full Stack Engineer, Tyler Funk
This summer we are ramping up our Development capacity with the addition of two new Full Stack Engineers to our team. This week we’re introducing Tyler Funk, one of our…
What Are the Social Determinants of Health?
Only 10-20% of our health outcomes are determined by what happens in a medical clinic. You read that right. Just 10-20%! The other 80-90% results from our health behaviors, where…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
PARTNERme Pilots Are Making an Impact for Colorado Patients & Providers
The past year of the pandemic and social distancing has clearly deemonstratted the importance of social connectedness in determining health and well-being outcomes. At VNL, our years of systems mapping…
Systems Thinking Quotes | 23 Favorite Thought-Provoking Sayings
Systems thinking is an important perspective for all network leaders! A network is fundamentally a system, experiencing many of the same dynamics that other systems go through, including emergence, feedback…
Meet our New Research & Data Technologist, Bria Thomas
We’re excited to share that we’re growing out staff again at VNL. Bria Thomas, our new Research & Data Technologist, brings a wealth of experience from the public health field,…
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