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Social Network Analysis Project with T/MC and Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC
Our goal from this project will be to use SNA software provided by Valdis Krebs to map T/MC networks, showing the connections between us, and people we know, and mapping the connections they have, to people we need to know if we are to succeed in our mission.
While our database is huge, over 12000 entries, I think that the way to start on this project, and get familiar with the software, is to map small networks. For instance, I'm part of a list serve of mentoring researchers, started by David DuBois, who I met via Big Brothers/Big Sisters, and the T/MC conferences. We could map that network and its connections.
We could also map each conference, then connect all of the conferences. We've hosted 32 since 1994. We could map the programs in the database, and show which of them have come to the conferences.
This list will grow as we do work with the software and learn its capacities. Add your own ideas and suggestions. Point to web links that illustrate the result of these maps, if you can find samples.
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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.
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.
I've converted it to this PDF 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 Connection web site we have links to 220 organizations who offer tutoring and/or mentoring of some sort to youth in Chicago.
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.
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.
Daniel Bassill > Daniel BassillDecember 15, 2012 at 6:37am
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. http://www.partnertool.net/
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.
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.
Katie
Daniel Bassill > Katie AndersonFebruary 27, 2010 at 6:39am
If you can come this week at 5:30pm that would be good.
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.
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.
Katie, Thank you for expressing this potential and the excitement I have in using Social Network Analysis.
Have you introduced yourself to Jonathan, the Intern from Loyola who is beginning to work with the software donated by Valdis Krebs. Valdis is available to come to Chicago on Friday, Feb. 26 for a training. Can you participate? Jonathan, can you fit that in your schedule? Are there other interns from Loyola, or Dominican, who might want to learn to use this software and work as a team to tease out these visions we have for how it is used?
Katie Anderson > Daniel BassillFebruary 19, 2010 at 4:55pm
Dan,
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.
Katie Anderson > Daniel BassillFebruary 2, 2010 at 4:46pm
Dan, I should be able to go Friday morning for training, but will have to be at work at noon. This also depends on a schedule I have yet to receive from a second job I have, but the morning should be open.
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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.
I've converted it to this PDF 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.
TMC Networking.ppt
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.
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.
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. http://www.partnertool.net/
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.
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.
Katie
Have you introduced yourself to Jonathan, the Intern from Loyola who is beginning to work with the software donated by Valdis Krebs. Valdis is available to come to Chicago on Friday, Feb. 26 for a training. Can you participate? Jonathan, can you fit that in your schedule? Are there other interns from Loyola, or Dominican, who might want to learn to use this software and work as a team to tease out these visions we have for how it is used?
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.
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