Intro to Social System Mapping
sumApp Overview
sumApp Overview If you'd like a little orientation to sumApp, this 57 second video should help! yes (sumApp has been significantly updated since this video was made but we still think it will give you a good sense of what's going on, and you can ...
Why think about each phase separately?
Now - you can plow through this whole process as if it’s one big linear project whose purpose is to end up with a final outcome, such as ‘a map’ or ‘an analysis’ (i.e. - a product). But In that case, you’re going to have to get the vision and the ...
Map Literacy - Example #1
Just to see what I mean by mapping being a 'language' - watch this one minute .gif At first it may see like there's a lot going on - a lot of dots, lines, names, movement, a couple of colors, that pop-out on the bottom left with text in it. . . . But ...
Video of a Social System Mapping Presentation to the Blue Marble Evaluation Network
Sarah Shanahan of the RE-AMP Network and I recently had the honor of presenting the Social System Mapping concept and the RE-AMP map to the Blue Marble Evaluation Network. You can watch it here...
The Purpose of Social System Mapping
Social system mapping (SSM) is a new mapping practice that can present on the surface a sloppy mash-up of better-established and more-well-groomed methodologies. It was not pre-conceived, pre-defined, pre-justified & pre-proven. Rather, it is ...
Networkism - The New Cultural Meme
In a March 2015 TED Talk, data visualization researcher Manual Lima explores what he calls the new cultural meme of 'Networkism', and a shift he sees in how we represent knowledge. We're shifting, he claims from a core metaphor of the 'Tree of Life' ...
Same and Different - Geographical Maps and Social System Mapping
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It's a New Language That is Emerging
I like to say that Social System Mapping is one genre in a new visual language that's emerging from the intersection of interactive online data visualization and graph theory. And because it's new, because the media that use this language are not yet ...
What is Social System Mapping?
Social System Mapping is an expanded version of Network Mapping that is emerging from the increased functionality of the combination of sumApp and Kumu. It's a mash-up of system mapping, social network mapping, asset mapping, stakeholder mapping and ...
Understanding the Relationship Between sumApp and Kumu
Kumu is an online platform that visualizes data in network graph format. A personal account is free. Each account can have unlimited 'projects'. Projects that are indexed and viewable by the public are free. Private projects cost roughly $10/month. ...
The Three General Phases
What ARE the three phases? There are no hard and fast absolutes about the process of Social System Mapping. As you proceed, your network will naturally constrain, re-frame, and co-generate its own path to your collectively-desired end-point. And you ...