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Although I think that Madeleine Taylor's scorecard on Assessing the Health of Your Network is a fine quick and dirty tool for getting you to focus on some key questions related to networks and community building (as with so many things of this nature, a result of Kellogg Foundation funding), it fundamentally approaches networks from the wrong angle. Everything about the health of networks derives from the combined effects of the individual relationships. For example, a key metric as to whether a group is actually a network or just another group, is something called the Clustering Coefficient. That coefficient measures how richly interconnected the members of the group are - that richness of connection is what makes networks so much greater than the sum of their parts, and so much more than just another list. I would love to see simple tools for helping organizations genuinely approach networks as networks.
Posted: 6/15/09; 8:23:07 AM # |
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