Social Network Trip Log Mapping

As Social Network Analysts we often find ourselves swimming against the tides of convention. In the business world we favour people, relationships and connections over the organisational hierarchies, processes and workflows that dominate the business literature.

We are currently travelling on holiday so I’ve decided to run a little experiment. We are meeting up with family for a white Xmas in Northern Italy, then travelling to different parts of Italy independently. We then move on to Israel and Jordan and meet with other friends joining us from Australia. Trip time approximately 6 weeks.

The tradition for travel writing is to write about interesting places, at times enhanced by anecdotes on people met thrown in to add some colour. I’ve decided to turn this around and report on interesting people we meet and connect with, enhanced by the places we meet for some added colour.

I am publishing social network maps on days we meet new and interesting people here: Link to Main Trip Blog. But for those just interested in how the map evolves, rather than my long winded ramblings I'm just publishing the maps here. I will also keep a cumulative map as our travel evolves. For clarity in the maps I’m only reporting initiating connections between people as we are often all connected in some way. Connections to places are complete though.