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Social Network Analysis

SNA TIG Week: Sophia Guevara on Continuing Your SNA learning

Leave a Comment / Social Network Analysis / July 7, 2015

My name is Sophia Guevara, Program Co-Chair for the Social Network Analysis (SNA) TIG.  This week, several evaluation professionals have shared with this blog’s readers their thoughts on social network analysis. With posts discussing logic models to examples of the application of social network analysis on a wide-range of evaluation questions, you’ve hopefully gained a better …

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SNA TIG Week: Andres Lazaro Lopez and Mari Kemis on SNA and Statewide STEM Program Evaluation

1 Comment / Social Network Analysis / July 7, 2015

Hello from Andres Lazaro Lopez and Mari Kemis from the Research Institute for Studies in Education at Iowa State University. As STEM education becomes more of a national priority, state governments and education professionals are increasingly collaborating with nonprofits and businesses to implement statewide STEM initiatives. Supported by National Science Foundation funding, we have been …

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SNA TIG Week: Rebecca Woodland with Ideas to Get You Started Using SNA Program Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Social Network Analysis / July 23, 2015

Hi, I’m Rebecca Woodland, an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at UMass Amherst. If there is one thing that I know for certain it’s that relationships matter and how we are connected influences the quality and outcomes of our shared endeavors. Social Network Analysis (SNA) has had a profound influence on my evaluation work. I …

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SNA TIG Week: John Burrett on a Cool trick: Mapping program logic with network analysis

2 Comments / Social Network Analysis / July 7, 2015

Hi, I’m John Burrett, of Haiku Analytics Inc., Ottawa. One serious problem with logic models is that they usually leave out external influences and feedback effects, even when they may be important, because they make the model “too complex”. It is good to simplify, but ignoring important influences on program success when planning an evaluation …

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SNA TIG Week: Bethany Laursen on defining the standard for “good” when using social network analysis as an evaluation tool

1 Comment / Social Network Analysis / July 7, 2015

I’m Bethany Laursen, an independent consultant and evaluation specialist for several units at the University of Wisconsin. I fell in love with social network analysis (SNA) as a graduate student because SNA gave me words and pictures to describe how I think. Many evaluators can relate to my story, but one of the challenges to …

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SNA TIG Week: Maryann Durland on the Social Network Analysis Application Standard

2 Comments / Social Network Analysis / July 7, 2015

Hi, I’m Maryann Durland, an independent evaluator and Social Network Analysis (SNA) practitioner. In this post I will address the requirements for doing an SNA application, particularly in evaluation, and which we could also call the standard for an application. I will use the early literature that formed and grounded SNA thinking and that continues …

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Jayne Corso on Tracking Your Analytics in Facebook

2 Comments / Social Media Tools & Updates, Social Network Analysis / June 26, 2015

Hello, my name is Jayne Corso and I am the community manager for American Evaluation Association and the voice behind the AEA Facebook page. If you manage a company Facebook page, you might have noticed a drop off of “likes” recently. Facebook has begun removing memorialized and voluntarily deactivated accounts from Pages’ like counts. This change ensures …

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Florent Gomez-Bonnet and Margaret Thomas on combining evaluation methods to get a more complete picture of partnerships

Leave a Comment / Social Network Analysis / April 12, 2015

Hello from Florent and Margaret in Sydney! We are two seasoned evaluators from ARTD Consultants, an Australian public policy consultancy firm providing services in evaluation, research and strategy. As more Australian government services and programs are delivered through partnerships, evaluators need to find better partnership evaluation methods. Faced with the challenge of evaluating partnerships, we …

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Jayne Corso on Evaluation 2014 (#Eval14) Twitter Highlights

1 Comment / Social Network Analysis / November 7, 2014

Hello, my name is Jayne Corso. I am a Community Manager for the American Evaluation Association (AEA) and I manage AEA’s social media presence (@aeaweb). This past week at Evaluation 2014, our event hashtag (#eval14) took on a life of its own and racked up a total of 5,601 tweets thanks to your postings, retweets, …

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Jayne Corso on Using HootSuite to Monitor Evaluation Trends and Conversations on Social Media

Leave a Comment / Social Network Analysis, Uncategorized / August 25, 2014

Hello, my name is Jayne Corso and I work with Dan McDonnell as a Community Manager for AEA. As a frequent social media user, and one of the voices behind @aeaweb, I am always searching for new tools that can organize my social media feeds and help me stay up-to-date on the latest conversations, topics, …

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