Network Evaluation: Exploring How to Better Listen to and Cultivate Networks
Friday, November 13
12:00pm-2:00pm
$50 ($20 for CSI Members)
includes lunch
Many of us are investing heavily in network development as a strategy for changing the world. We feel intuitively that it is working - after all, collaboration is good, right? But how do we really know if it's working? How do we, track, defend, rationalize or prove that a network approach is the right approach for our project? And perhaps most importantly, how can we learn to do it better?
In 2008, the Centre for Social Innovation partnered with the Millennium Scholarship Foundation to undertake a year-long study exploring these very questions. Working with some of Canada's brightest network thinkers and practitioners, we poked and prodded the issue, exploring the unique character of "network evaluation" in an effort to improve our own practice. Join us as we reveal our findings, acknowledge our challenges, and enlist your insight. Our goal is to refine the practice of network stewardship by better understanding how we can evaluate our network experiences.