CFMC NWLC 20100818
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This document summarizes a workshop on social networks and network weaving. The workshop introduced concepts of networks and their benefits for social change. Participants learned about characteristics of healthy networks and the role of network weavers. The goals of the workshop were to help participants work with a network mindset and understand network theory. Participants provided input on topics for future learning community sessions focused on network mapping and applying network weaving practices to address local issues in Monterey County.
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- 1. Social Network Support Project: Network Weaver Learning Community Community Foundation for Monterey County Diana Scearce and Janet Shing August 18, 2010 Thank you June Holley of Network Weaving, Monitor Institute, and Packard Foundation
- 2. A Few Questions to Begin to Weave Our Network
- 5. Intelligence emerges as the system connects to itself in new and diverse ways. - Meg Wheatley
- 12. What Is a Social Network? Monitor Institute A collection of people connected by relationships
- 15. Networks Aren’t New… Monitor Institute
- 16. … and New Online Spaces for Connecting People But, There Are New Tools for Sharing Content Monitor Institute
- 22. Weave Communities MAVRAC Monitor Institute
- 23. Access Diverse Perspectives Monitor Institute
- 24. Access Diverse Perspectives Monitor Institute
- 25. Build and Share Knowledge Monitor Institute
- 26. Mobilizing People and Building Movements Source: Breaking New Ground: Using the Internet to Scale , by Heather McLeod Grant and Katherine Fulton; photos from KaBOOM! website Monitor Institute
- 27. Coordinate Resources and Action Monitor Institute
- 28. Why do networks matter for your work? What are the benefits?
- 29. Why is it Hard to Work with a Network Mindset? Unlearning past behaviors and frameworks Dealing with information overload Brand and message control Privacy concerns Learning and leveraging new technologies Assessing impact Source of images: Cut Throat Communications, Blog.com, Rutgers University RU FAIR, Kodaikanal International School, flickr Managing for accuracy Monitor Institute
- 34. A Few Helpful Definitions Core Monitor Institute Link Node Cluster Periphery Hub
- 35. Adult Literacy, Monterey County, June 2009 Visualizing the Overall Network Some school-based and government agencies in the core (1, pink and blue), with nonprofits outside (2, red). Only one faith-based organization (3). 1 2 3 Type of Organization nonprofit government faith-based fdn/grantmaker school unknown
- 36. Greenfield Network, September 2009 Visualizing the Overall Network Mix of types of orgs in the core but mainly nonprofit and govt (1, red and blue; schools on edge of core - turquiose), relatively small periphery (2, yellow). Relatively few Greenfield-based (3) 1 2 3 Type of Organization nonprofit government other fdn/grantmaker religious school named, but did not take survey
- 37. Environment, Monterey Bay, November 2009 Visualizing the Overall Network Nonprofits, educ inst, and govt make up the core (1 turquoise, blue, and black); couple hubs (2) and many nodes who could easily be brought into core (3) 1 2 3 Type of Organization nonprofit organization educational institution government agency grassroots / informal group named, but did not take survey
- 38. Youth, Monterey County, July 2010 Visualizing the Overall Network 1 Nonprofits and govt make up the core (1 red and black); schools on periphery (2 yellow); and those working on safety and violence prevention are well-integrated (3) 2 3 Type of Organization government funder nonprofit collaborative other faith-based named, but did not take survey school
- 39. Youth Development Network Salinas October 2007 - 150 surveyed; 35% (53) responded A map of all the different networks shows fairly loose connections. Funders and non-profits compose most of the core (1, blue and black nodes), surrounded by sub-clusters of government actors (2, red nodes). Schools are not as well connected (3, yellow nodes spread around the periphery). One can also see a number of poorly connected individual networks (4) Government Agency Foundation Non-Profit For-Profit School Unknown Religious Other All Networks by Organization Type
- 40. Metrics scores are calculated by responses to network questions (e.g., shared resource, collaboration, future collaboration, energize/ideas)
- 47. June Holley’s Network Weaver Checklist
- 53. “ Networks are everywhere. We just need an eye for seeing them.” Albert- Laszlo Barbarasi
Hinweis der Redaktion
- Begin with fun team-building exercise
- What is your networks work? What are your burning questions related to networks? What’s a useful tool or resource you’ve come across lately that supports your networks work?
- Results of pre-survey
- We’re all part of networks… They’ve long been core to social change… And, there deep knowledge of networks resident in the social sector – community building, participatory decision-making
- Weaving communities – or net-centric organizing -- is great way to strengthen ties in a community, to increase civic engagement and to nurture healthier communities MAVRAC=Monterey Area Volunteer Administrators Consortium, a group of leaders accountable for managing volunteer programs in organizations with a conservation mission. We talk about Bill Traynor’s work at Lawrence Community Works in the article. The Annie E. Casey Foundation has been supporting similar work across the country through their Making Connections Initiative; Making Connections is 10 year initiative that has been deliberately working to strengthen ties at the neighborhood level. The basic idea: to connect families to economic opportunity, to each other, to public services, and to other kinds of social support. The image here is an example from one of the several communities they’ve been working – Louisville, Kentucky. Residents in Louisville have developed a community network that links residents to one another and to opportunities – like jobs and childcare They now have 2300 members...and impressive results, such as over $4 mil generated in income from job placements through the network
- Social media tools and working with a network mindset are making it possible to connect with connect with expertise, leaders, problem solvers that you may not have been able to access otherwise Lots of activity around this using competition models Most famous is Innocentive – which connects solution seekers with a network of problem solvers. Mostly a hub and spokes model – in which the problem solvers aren’t usually talking to one another
- Indigenous people from Oaxaca pic from http://www.indigenousfarmworkers.org/index.shtml. There are a number of low-tech networking examples among the Indigenous, nonprofit organizations, schools, city government, and faith-based organizations. This is also happening on listserves and shared workspaces – like Google Groups
- This is the work of learning networks or communities of practice The picture is of a community of practice I’ve been working with for the past year – the Network of Network Funders. It’s a group of funders all who are intentionally investing in networks and working to codify and improve their related grantmaking practices. We’ve been meeting together in-person and using an online space on WiserEarth to coordinate and share resources. Build and share knowledge is also what larger more decentralized online models of content co-creation, like Wikipedia, do A new example that I personally love – is a wiki that Packard’s OE program recently launched. They’ve created a resources site where they’re openly sharing resources on organizational and network effectiveness and, by using the wiki format, inviting others to add to and amend. It’s an exciting experiment in working wikily
- Network approaches can be a powerful means of motivating people to act and inspiring collective action After years of experience, Kaboom has developed a powerful approach to local communities in building playgrounds. But,they realized they couldn’t achieve nearly the level of impact they aspired to building one playground at a time. So they decided to open source their model – they created a free online DIY kit for playground builds that has empowered more than 6,000 communities to self-organize and build local playgrounds – compared to the 1700 that Kaboom was able to directly engage in building over 15 years. Lots of impressive examples of ‘Mobile Activism’ – SexInfo SF PeaceNet – coalition of Kenyan NGOs created a text messaging ‘nerve center’ for conflict management and prevention. Info on planned and actual attacks among rival groups shared and relayed to mediators in the local communities http://www.unfoundation.org/our-impact/stories-of-impact/health-data-disaster-relief/mobile-activism-make-text-not-war.html?authToken=6a3e0d6c35bad6c722411edc6009181ba411b921
- CASP=Community Alliance for Safety and Peace (group of Monterey County community leaders from govt, educ, safety, health, faith-based, and other fields working for peace) Can also share Barr Mystic River network story here
- In addition to group brainstorm – a few things to point out: Adapt to changing circumstances Act big without being big Get things done quickly Improve information flow Increase awareness of relationships Increase inclusion & peer interaction across traditional divides Open new resources Expand and support leadership Encourage innovation, collaboration & learning for better outcomes and breakthroughs
- Cluster of nodes of the same type show a pocket of close relationships between a set of individuals Hub and spoke network shows reliance on a single individual as the center of a group Links connect two nodes (thickness shows strength of relationship)
- 42 invited to take survey; 34 responded (81%) and named 98 others. This map shows 132 people, representing 87 different organizations.
- 92 invited; 55 responded (60%) and named 123 others. This map shows 178 individuals from 93 organizations. Ideal periphery = 3-5x core with diverse background or expertise
- 73 invited to take survey; 47 responded (65%) and named 119 others. This map shows 168 people, representing 133 different organizations.
- You may be taking on multiple of these roles – in particular, weaver, facilitator, tech steward Catalyst : establishes value proposition(s); establishes first links to participants (during ‘knitting the network’ stage). Sponsor : provides resources for knitting, organizing, growing and transitioning / transforming the network. Weaver : works to increase connections among participants; grows the network by connecting to new participants (during ‘knitting the network’ ‘growing the network’ stages). Coach : provides advice as needed, once trust is established and power dynamic is well understood. Participant : participates in the network without assuming discrete leadership role. Assessor : diagnoses network needs.
- What do you do as a net weaver that’s working?
- Examples of each of these Discussion with participants about what they’d like to experiment with… last bullet esp important Have participants write down what they’re going to do