Most network maps are static snapshots. Social System Maps evolve over time—just like the people and relationships they represent.
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,…
The Map Page allows you to embed your Kumu map back into the sumApp interface. This enables your members to see what they’re contributing to as they submit their data, have nearly instant satisfaction, find relationships they’ve missed and easily go back…
When we first developed sumApp, this was the only way to get data into Kumu. We’d download the 2 spreadsheets – an ‘elements’ sheet and a ‘connections’ sheet. Then we’d load those sheets into Kumu. This option isn’t very popular…
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. Private essentially means that the project…
Social System Mapping involves the use of two online platforms, sumApp and Kumu. sumApp You’ll need a sumApp account to gather your network data. You can start a free 1 month trial here. You can learn more about the sumApp tiers here. sumApp is essentially…
Now that you can use sumApp with two different platforms, we figured you’d want to be able to share both maps in the sumApp member view – so now you can! If you have two maps, you can select to show…
Once your map is ready to share, you can put the Kumu embed link to show it within sumApp.
The Connections Page of the Member View represents the key functionality of sumApp, enabling network members to show their relationships on the map in Kumu, and to keep the map as up-to-date as possible with as little effort as possible – while at…
1. Click “Connections” to find members you want to add a connection
1. From ‘My Projects’, select the ‘Manage’ drop-down for
See a list of all members in your project. Send an invitation email to your memb
Click ‘Manage’ button to access your project management pages. Edit
A project you no longer need can be: Deleted completely Deletion is not reversib
Cancel your subscription. Return to sumApp. Remove a payment method. Add a payme
Once a member has joined your Social System Map, either the member can edit thei
