Social Network Project at Tutor/Mentor Connection - Tutor/Mentor Connection2024-03-29T09:35:43Zhttp://tutormentorconnection.ning.com/forum/topics/social-network-project-at?groupUrl=technologyinternswithtutormentorconnection&%3BcommentId=783429%3AComment%3A11418&%3BgroupId=783429%3AGroup%3A10601&feed=yes&xn_auth=noI found this Partner Tool web…tag:tutormentorconnection.ning.com,2012-12-15:783429:Comment:432522012-12-15T17:37:40.626ZDaniel Bassillhttp://tutormentorconnection.ning.com/profile/tutormentor
<p>I found this Partner Tool web site this week. It provides tools to show how group work together on common social problems. I'd like to find talent to help apply this tool to show participation in the May and November Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conferences that have been held since 1994. We could use attendee list to map participants, and to map volunteers who offered workshops at each conference.…</p>
<p>I found this Partner Tool web site this week. It provides tools to show how group work together on common social problems. I'd like to find talent to help apply this tool to show participation in the May and November Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conferences that have been held since 1994. We could use attendee list to map participants, and to map volunteers who offered workshops at each conference. <a href="http://www.partnertool.net/" target="_blank">http://www.partnertool.net/</a></p> I use graphics like this, and…tag:tutormentorconnection.ning.com,2010-09-01:783429:Comment:131442010-09-01T18:39:49.000ZDaniel Bassillhttp://tutormentorconnection.ning.com/profile/tutormentor
I use graphics like this, and the "wheel" to illustrate how one person can build a network of support for a goal, like Tutor/Mentor Connection, by enlisting people from different backgrounds to help.<p style="text-align: left;"><img alt="" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2866048083?profile=RESIZE_480x480" width="421"></img></p>
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In reviewing some of my web files today, I came across a power point that I had created almost 10 years ago to illustrate my goal of finding a way to map the network that I had been building for the previous 30 years, and to segment members by specific…
I use graphics like this, and the "wheel" to illustrate how one person can build a network of support for a goal, like Tutor/Mentor Connection, by enlisting people from different backgrounds to help.<p style="text-align: left;"><img width="421" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2866048083?profile=RESIZE_480x480" alt=""/></p>
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In reviewing some of my web files today, I came across a power point that I had created almost 10 years ago to illustrate my goal of finding a way to map the network that I had been building for the previous 30 years, and to segment members by specific categories, such as law firms, universities, etc.<br />
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I've converted it to <a href="http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/images/PDF/tmc%20networking%20sna%20goals.pdf" target="_blank">this PDF</a> which I hope you'll all review. Our aim is to be able to create an automated system that enables us to map our database, and our network, based on pre-determined categories, and to make this available on -line so others can search it to see who we are working with, and where they can connect. On the Tutor/Mentor Connectio…tag:tutormentorconnection.ning.com,2010-06-13:783429:Comment:125882010-06-13T16:51:36.000ZDaniel Bassillhttp://tutormentorconnection.ning.com/profile/tutormentor
On the Tutor/Mentor Connection web site we have <a href="http://www.tutormentorconnection.org/FindaProgram/ChicagoAreaProgramLinks/tabid/561/language/en-US/Default.aspx" target="_blank">links to 220 organizations</a> who offer tutoring and/or mentoring of some sort to youth in Chicago.<br />
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One Network Analysis project goal is to view the web sites of each organization and create a map that shows how many have links back to the T/MC, and how many have links to any of the other tutor/mentor programs…
On the Tutor/Mentor Connection web site we have <a href="http://www.tutormentorconnection.org/FindaProgram/ChicagoAreaProgramLinks/tabid/561/language/en-US/Default.aspx" target="_blank">links to 220 organizations</a> who offer tutoring and/or mentoring of some sort to youth in Chicago.<br />
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One Network Analysis project goal is to view the web sites of each organization and create a map that shows how many have links back to the T/MC, and how many have links to any of the other tutor/mentor programs in Chicago. Such a map would show how much we're all helping each other, and how much our help is a one-way street.<br />
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We need volunteers who will do this work, either as part of a formal class project, Masters or PhD project, or on their own. Please help spread the word so we can find this help. Dan, I will definitely be the…tag:tutormentorconnection.ning.com,2010-02-27:783429:Comment:114352010-02-27T19:25:56.000ZKatie Andersonhttp://tutormentorconnection.ning.com/profile/KatieAnderson
Dan, I will definitely be there then. See you Wed.!
Dan, I will definitely be there then. See you Wed.! If you can come this week at…tag:tutormentorconnection.ning.com,2010-02-27:783429:Comment:114342010-02-27T17:39:45.000ZDaniel Bassillhttp://tutormentorconnection.ning.com/profile/tutormentor
If you can come this week at 5:30pm that would be good.
If you can come this week at 5:30pm that would be good. Dan,
I think it would be rea…tag:tutormentorconnection.ning.com,2010-02-24:783429:Comment:114192010-02-24T23:00:17.000ZKatie Andersonhttp://tutormentorconnection.ning.com/profile/KatieAnderson
Dan,<br />
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I think it would be really interesting to also see how people are recruited. It (potentially) could help to form strategies for recruiting based on patterns that seem to be occurring.<br />
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I'm really glad to hear that people from Dominican have gotten in touch with you! I hope that we/they can contribute to the project. In regards to myself, I can't make it to tutoring tonight, but I can next week and wouldn't mind coming about a half hour early to talk to you some more. Let me know if that…
Dan,<br />
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I think it would be really interesting to also see how people are recruited. It (potentially) could help to form strategies for recruiting based on patterns that seem to be occurring.<br />
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I'm really glad to hear that people from Dominican have gotten in touch with you! I hope that we/they can contribute to the project. In regards to myself, I can't make it to tutoring tonight, but I can next week and wouldn't mind coming about a half hour early to talk to you some more. Let me know if that will work.<br />
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Katie This shows another potential…tag:tutormentorconnection.ning.com,2010-02-24:783429:Comment:114182010-02-24T22:53:17.000ZDaniel Bassillhttp://tutormentorconnection.ning.com/profile/tutormentor
This shows another potential use of SNA tools. We can map the different groups on the ning site, and the members in each group. Maybe we can show who recruited some of these people, thus how their network connections led to those people joining this site.<br />
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This shows another potential use of SNA tools. We can map the different groups on the ning site, and the members in each group. Maybe we can show who recruited some of these people, thus how their network connections led to those people joining this site.<br />
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<p style="text-align: left;"><img width="721" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2957722297?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" alt=""/></p> This is one example of work w…tag:tutormentorconnection.ning.com,2010-02-24:783429:Comment:114162010-02-24T22:49:24.000ZDaniel Bassillhttp://tutormentorconnection.ning.com/profile/tutormentor
This is one example of work we might do using SNA tools. When a student joins a tutor/mentor program, we could create a map of his/her network. Every couple of years we might update that. It should show that he/she is connected to a broader range of people because of the tutor/mentor program. If we're also teaching him how to access this network, understand it, and use it to find information, or help with work or jobs, then this demonstrates a value of tutor/mentor programs that might result in…
This is one example of work we might do using SNA tools. When a student joins a tutor/mentor program, we could create a map of his/her network. Every couple of years we might update that. It should show that he/she is connected to a broader range of people because of the tutor/mentor program. If we're also teaching him how to access this network, understand it, and use it to find information, or help with work or jobs, then this demonstrates a value of tutor/mentor programs that might result in more consistent donor investment.<p style="text-align: left;"><img width="721" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2866042678?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" alt=""/></p> Hi Katie,
I understand from…tag:tutormentorconnection.ning.com,2010-02-20:783429:Comment:113672010-02-20T15:19:32.000ZDaniel Bassillhttp://tutormentorconnection.ning.com/profile/tutormentor
Hi Katie,<br />
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I understand from El that you've been coming to weekly tutoring. That's good. It will give us time to keep talking while you are building stronger understanding and ties to the kids and the program. Each week you're here, you have a new story to share with people you know. If you use the blog on this Ning as a journal, and link it to your Facebook and Twitter, many other people will begin to understand us through what you write.<br />
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At the same time, as you recognize people who might be…
Hi Katie,<br />
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I understand from El that you've been coming to weekly tutoring. That's good. It will give us time to keep talking while you are building stronger understanding and ties to the kids and the program. Each week you're here, you have a new story to share with people you know. If you use the blog on this Ning as a journal, and link it to your Facebook and Twitter, many other people will begin to understand us through what you write.<br />
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At the same time, as you recognize people who might be interested, such as at Dominican, sending them email, or making direct contact, will ultimately lead one or more to get involved.<br />
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Finally, I want to keep meeting with you, and talking with you here, so you can add your ideas to what we're doing with the network analysis, and add your time, and talent, where ever it fits. I think that as we learn inFlow software, we're going to need people who pull data from different places, such as our OHATS system, into Excel spread sheets. Then it will need to be coded or cleaned up before it can be fed into the SNA software.<br />
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That will only be the beginning. We will need to tease out visual maps of our network, and then try to make sense of what the maps are showing, via essays and articles we write on blogs and other forums.<br />
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I think there will be many ways, and growing ways, where you'll be able to help us do this. Dan,
Unfortunately, I cannot…tag:tutormentorconnection.ning.com,2010-02-20:783429:Comment:113662010-02-20T03:55:04.000ZKatie Andersonhttp://tutormentorconnection.ning.com/profile/KatieAnderson
Dan,<br />
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Unfortunately, I cannot make the training. I am trying to reach out to Dominican's community to find other people that are interested. The email includes your contact information, so hopefully you will hear from someone. Let me know if there are any other ways I can contribute, or maybe I could learn the program at some other date.
Dan,<br />
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Unfortunately, I cannot make the training. I am trying to reach out to Dominican's community to find other people that are interested. The email includes your contact information, so hopefully you will hear from someone. Let me know if there are any other ways I can contribute, or maybe I could learn the program at some other date.