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1. Learn how to order and nest subgroups beginning on page 39 You can ask Network Subgroup Identification items in both egocentric network surveys and complete network surveys As in the example that follows participants move names from the left box to the right box when selecting alters who belong to subgroups 21 Who have you worked with Include people you have worked with directly in any kind of work relationship during anytime in your life Available Members i Selected Members Bulluck Bryan Jr Hill Hanna Helen Chalmers Charles Colbem Chuck Oliver Olinda Opra Darling Deadre Deedee Ruben Robin Renee Fantastic Fantasia Fan Ellis Edward Earl IIl Eddie Garfield Gregory Greg Imanny han Jones Jeffrey Jay Sr Jeff Kelly Katherine Karen Kathy Ledbetter Lauren Linda Lola Mitchel Mable Melinda Mel Newland Norvis Nathan Jr Nate Pulland Patrick Peter Pat Quick Quentin Sumpter Stephen Samuel Il Steve Thomas Tyrone Terrel Tbone Underwood Ursela Vale Vanesa Valerie Van Walters William Walker Sr Bill Sort Name Last C First Search Clear Previous Item Next Item Note that there are two search options one that allows alphabetical ordering by last first or nickname and one that allows the participant to type in a name These will always be available to participants so large lists can be easily navigated Your participants can move names back a
2. Acquire Network Members 56 57 Activation 10 35 51 52 59 65 68 70 Adjacency Matrix 72 73 Administering Surveys 10 65 Alphabetical Ordering 22 Alters 5 8 13 15 20 24 27 31 39 42 44 45 47 59 66 68 Associating Items with Subgroups 40 41 Behavior 18 33 Binary Values 22 Classic Response 23 25 Clone 17 36 38 49 Comma Separated Value iii 24 56 72 Complete Network Projects 19 51 60 Complete Network Surveys 19 21 23 27 29 51 52 59 61 64 66 Complete Networks iii 6 13 14 18 51 56 Coordinator 1 7 17 18 36 54 56 71 74 Create a New Project 17 50 Create a New Survey 3 17 36 49 Crumbs 3 CSV iii 24 56 57 67 72 Customer Support 75 Delete 22 34 35 37 38 54 55 58 59 61 65 Demographic 18 33 E Mail Invitations 10 62 66 Edit 17 26 32 34 37 50 54 59 63 65 66 68 Egocentric Network Identification 20 47 66 67 Egocentric Network Projects 51 Egocentric Network Surveys 19 21 23 27 29 47 51 52 56 64 65 Egocentric Networks iii 13 18 67 Egocentric Subject Identification 19 47 Egos 5 9 13 15 18 20 29 32 44 66 69 End Date 35 Example Project 4 5 10 11 Example Survey 4 11 19 Export iii 11 12 24 55 69 71 72 Genie Generated IDs 64 68 76 Human Subjects 52 74 Hybrid 13 15 20 66 68 Import 11 37 38 44 51 55 57 58 65 InFlow iii 24
3. Network Genie User s Manual William B Hansen Ph D Eric Reese B S Kelvin S Bryant Ph D Dana Bishop M A Cheryl H Wyrick Ph D Douglas Dyreng Tanglewood Research Inc Version Date August 2008 For additional copies of this manual please visit the Network Genie website https secure networkgenie com contact the Network Genie staff at support networkgenie com or call 1 800 826 4539 x100 toll free in the US or 1 336 662 0090 x100 outside the US Introduction Network Genie https secure networkgenie com is a web application that makes it easy and affordable for social network researchers and practitioners to design and manage social network projects Four functions are included in the application 1 Design network surveys and survey questions You can create surveys to assess social networks A variety of novel social network survey data collection techniques are included that allow you to identify subgroups within networks and collect rating ranking and sociometric information about network members You can also add Person Centered Items to surveys to collect data about the person making the ratings 2 Manage social network projects You can use Network Genie to create and manage social network projects The application supports projects conducted using complete networks sociocentric and egocentric networks Projects allow you to link surveys to lists of names Additionally you can enlist
4. Anyone a Team Member or not who has access to these numbers can spend them Once spent there is no way to get a refund Share the key and code only with Team Members who need to have them License Input Project My First Project p Survey My First Survey Network My First Network Number of subjects for which licensing is required 19 Enter license key or select existing license s from your key ring that satisfies the requirement Enter License Info License Key Activation Cade Description F Use this key now for the current Activation Use the Description field to provide any information about the license you wish to remember This information can be edited later Licenses will be placed on a key ring Network Genie keeps track of surveys by activation When you apply the key to an activation the number of unused surveys available to you for analysis is displayed next to your ring information If you have multiple keys on your ring you can select which will be the source of payment for surveys you wish to analyze Key Ring for Your Name TE NN EEN 98888820000 9X98X9 X9X8X 9X8X9 My First License 981 Total Available 981 Submit Close 70 Retrieving and Exporting Data Gathering data is one thing Analyzing it is another The final role Network Genie plays is to make it easy for you to retrieve data and export it in a format useful to you for analysis This option is availa
5. Egocentric network surveys are administered from the URL https secure networkgenie com survey This is a secure site that sends encrypted data between the Network Genie server and the participants computers when administering surveys If you elected to use the Network Genie generated ID option for having participants login all participants will use the Login ID and Password you created when you activated the survey You must provide participants the URL If you elected to use participants e mail address for their Login IDs you first need to gather participant information If you have network members in an electronic list you can import names by clicking the Acquire button on the Subject Information page Home Project Main gt Activation Status gt Subject Information See Social Network Lists on pages 56 59 61 65 for instructions for importing lists Sort LastName FirstName Mick Name Select Last Name First Name Middle Name Suffix Nick Name E mail laa tanglewood net bbE tanglewoad net 65 Once information is available you can e mail invitations to all participants simultaneously by clicking on the E mail Invitations to All button Or you can invite them individually by clicking on their e mail address which will send an e mail from mailerdaemon networkgenie com You can edit the e mail invitation by clicking the E mail Invitation Text link in the navigation area Text is provid
6. 67 72 Informed Consent 52 54 62 INSNA 71 72 Item Response Options 23 25 32 Items iii 6 9 17 21 23 24 26 29 32 47 53 54 66 72 73 Key Ring 70 Library 3 9 17 18 33 34 37 38 44 54 License 1 69 70 74 Links 2 3 14 15 17 20 37 38 67 72 73 Lock 16 22 34 35 37 49 52 Login 2 52 54 59 60 62 66 68 Manage Network Lists 56 59 68 Matrix Response 23 25 Mediator 33 Move 6 8 17 21 22 24 26 32 38 40 42 44 MultiNet iii 24 67 72 na 27 31 Navigation 2 3 9 10 17 34 37 38 40 41 45 50 55 59 63 64 66 69 NEGOPY iii 24 27 31 67 72 Nest Subgroups 6 7 21 29 42 Nesting 39 42 43 45 46 48 Network List Maintenance 57 59 Network Subgroup Identification 6 7 21 23 29 30 39 44 46 47 73 Network Subgroups 39 Nickname 22 58 Nodes 13 15 20 Order 7 8 17 21 26 27 29 30 32 35 45 53 Ordering Items 37 39 Page Layout 2 Password 1 62 65 Pay iii 1 69 Privileges 18 36 48 54 55 Project Coordinator 1 7 17 18 36 54 56 71 74 Raw Data 11 71 Register 1 54 Remove 55 57 59 Retrieve Data 11 12 55 71 72 Reverse Code Responses 26 32 71 Scales 26 32 33 54 Snowball 14 15 66 68 Social Network Items 6 9 18 19 34 Social Nomination 8 28 29 41 Social Peer Perception 9 29 41 Social Ranking 7 8 27 28 41 Socia
7. Cancel You will be routed to the Project Main page Home Project Main where you can view a summary of your project 53 Project Roles Once your project has been created there is additional work you need to complete for it to function efficiently and to allow it to gather data One task is creating a team of associates to help you Network Genie recognizes that most projects include a collaboration among people who play different roles If you registered yourself as a Network Genie user you automatically became a Project Coordinator On the other hand you might have been registered to use Network Genie by someone else who is a Project Coordinator If you are not a Project Coordinator and wish to become one you can go to the Network Genie Login page https secure networkgenie com admin MemberLogin asp and click the link would like to Register as a Project Coordinator As a Project Coordinator you assume the following obligations e You must represent yourself to be who you are The personal information you provide must be correct and kept up to date e You must be willing to serve as the Coordinator for the Projects you define with Network Genie e You must be responsible for payment for services e You must accept legal responsibility for designing and completing informed consent procedures As a Project Coordinator you are automatically granted the following privileges for each project you create e Ab
8. Configuration Include Names Include Person Centered Items Format Generic Comma Separated Values C Klique Finder C MultiNet Negopy C UCINet The Example Project provides you with an example database The Example Project data can be downloaded into several standard data formats Each option creates files that you can then import using the social network analysis program of your choice Go ahead Try it 11 What the Example Has Demonstrated This example does not show you everything Network Genie can do but you get the idea Network Genie is designed to make conducting social network survey projects easy You can Design network surveys and survey questions Manage social network projects Collect social network survey data Retrieve data and export formatted data to the social network analysis programs of your choice The remainder of the User s Manual is designed to help you answer the detailed questions you may have about how to use Network Genie in your social network projects 12 Network Types Egocentric Complete or Hybrid Network Genie distinguishes between three types of social network data Egocentric Networks Personal Complete Networks Sociocentric and Hybrid Networks Snowballs We thought it might help to specify what we mean in the Network Genie User s Manual Egocentric Personal Networks When alters are not known in advance the network type is egocentric An ego generates a
9. Genie are the property of the Project Coordinator who paid for the license Tanglewood Research does not make claim of ownership of data but does as part of our service to customers warehouse data on computers which are guarded against unwarranted access through the active enforcement of fire walls encryption and other security measures Tanglewood Research will not without the express written consent of Project Coordinators or legally authorized agents complete data analyses with the exception of conducting analyses to audit data integrity and to create summaries for the purposes of documenting the variety and extent of usage of Network Genie Tanglewood Research will not without the express written consent of Project Coordinators or legally authorized agents share data with third parties You can find the current End User License Agreement UELA on the Coordinator Maintenance page Home Coordinator Maintenance 74 Conclusion So that s it Network Genie provides you with an easy way to collect social network data that can be exported for analysis We hope you find using Network Genie functional and even fun Tanglewood Research is committed to making Network Genie a useful tool for researchers and analysts Your comments and suggestions are welcome Send questions requests for customer support and comments to support networkgenie com 75 Index name 7 23 25 name 30 31 name2 30 31 27 31
10. Male Ethnic Origin College Alc Satisfaction at work You can toggle between Person Centered and Social Network Items by clicking the top link in the navigation area Person Centered Items can be created by Network Genie users When you create an item of your own it is stored in a private library There is also a growing public library The second item Ethnic Origin came from the public library and was originally created for a project called College Alc All Person Centered Items have multiple choice response categories Results are stored with weighted values Example Project Now that you ve seen the Example Survey it s time to take a tour and see what the Example Project is all about Our tour will demonstrate some of the valuable features included Administering Surveys Getting survey data from people is what Network Genie is all about Surveys are administered over the Internet using our secure website To demonstrate how easy this is From your home page click on Network Genie Example Project Complete Network in the Projects list This will bring up the Project Main page Home Project Main e In the navigation area click the link that reads Administer Activate Surveys e In the work area click the Subjects button H j Project Network Genie Example Project Activation Status S LE escas Network Example Network List rey Network Genie Example Survey Complete Network Status FT EN
11. Start TRIER End 12 5 2011 Subject Total 20 Current 0 0 0 Completed 0 0 0 Retrieved Counts Edit e On the Subject Information page Home gt Project Main gt Activation Status Subject Information that comes up click the E mail Invitations to All button Confidential Subject Information Survey URL https secure networkgenie com survey Save Cancel E mail Invitations to All Last Name First Name Middle Suffix Nick Name Informed Login ID Password Survey Name Consent Click E mail Address to send individual invitations Popis ills T aa tanglewood net m INFORMED Not CONSENT Started 10 You should receive an invitation to complete the online Example Survey by e mail Be sure you can receive e mail from mailerdaemon networkgenie com You may want to take the survey yourself Retrieving Data So what does this get you Imagine you ve designed a survey created a project and gathered data Network Genie is designed to do yet another thing allow you to retrieve data and export it in a format that is useful to you From the Project Main menu click Analyze Survey Results A Project Network Genie Demo Project Analyze Main Complete Network Network survey oT Start end Sf Status iEkample Network Network Genie 11 1 2006 11 1 2011 Active Example Survey Complete Network Click the Raw Data button This is what you will see
12. To become a registered user you must agree to a few basic rules e Verify the personal information you are submitting is correct e Certify that you are willing to serve as the Project Coordinator for Network Genie projects Once you are a Project Coordinator you can invite others to become a Team Member to participate with you on the projects you design e Declare that you accept responsibility for paying for services As you will learn later a lot of what you can do with Network Genie requires no payment It s only when you have collected data and want to look at it that you will be asked to pay e Certify that you accept legal responsibility for protecting human subjects rights As a Network Genie user you not Tanglewood Research are responsible for satisfying any requirements for obtaining permission to collect data from survey participants or network members and for satisfying requirements for survey administration If you are conducting research this is your obligation whether you use Network Genie or not We will do our part Your data files will be kept safe encrypted and available only to those who have your permission to examine them e Agree to the online End Users License Agreement posted on the website at http www networkgenie com EULA asp We encourage you to listen to the PowerPoint presentations found on the Getting Started web page Click the View Getting Started Information link on the member login page
13. colleagues as Team Members to help you with project management 3 Collect social network data You can use Network Genie to collect social network data through online surveys You can send participants e mail invitations to get them started and monitor survey administration online Data are stored on the Network Genie secure website 4 Download and export data You can export your data from Network Genie to the social network analysis program of your choice oeveral export formats are included to facilitate getting data ready for analysis Data can be exported as a Comma Separated Value CSV file or to meet the specifications of four common social network analysis programs InFlow MultiNet NEGOPY and UCINet This manual is a practical guide to using Network Genie We invite you to play with the application to your heart s content You only pay when data are ready to analyze Acknowledgments The development of Network Genie was funded in part by a contract from the National Institutes of Drug Abuse National Institutes of Health US Department of Health and Human Services contract number N44DA 2 5509 William B Hansen Ph D Principal Investigator We have received significant assistance from the following individuals who consulted with us provided external resources gave suggestions for improvement or served as beta testers David Altman Center for Creative Leadership Peter Busse University of Southern California Susa
14. fewer Network Subgroup Identification items will suffice Collect only data you actually want and know how to analyze 46 Egocentric Network Survey Item Restrictions There are important restrictions that apply specifically to egocentric network surveys In egocentric network surveys the first item must be an Egocentric Subject Identification item Only one Egocentric Subject Identification item can be included When you create an egocentric network survey the Egocentric Subject Identification item you select will automatically be placed to be the first item in the social network part of a survey Egocentric network surveys must include at least one Egocentric Network ldentification item These items will be placed immediately after the Egocentric Subject Identification item Multiple Egocentric Network Identification items can be used in one survey however you should note that the network that results will include a combination of all answers to these items Thus if you ask Who are your friends and What relatives have you talked to in the last month both sets of alters will be included in the participants egocentric network You can use Network Subgroup Identification items to subsequently limit questions to logical subgroups All Egocentric Network Identification items will immediately follow the Egocentric Subject Identification item as in this example Network Survey Main Owner Your Name y Survey My Fir
15. in the top section and click the Save button to move them to the bottom They can accumulate as many alters as they wish As names are added by participants Network Genie includes a process for checking new names against previously entered names The purpose of this not an exact science is to attempt to ensure that new names haven t previously been entered Egocentric data entry holds with it the potential for participants to misspell or use alternative spellings of names This cannot be eliminated entirely because names and nicknames do ofttimes have quirky spellings Nonetheless participants are given the opportunity to chose whether a name they enter for an alter matches any name previously available as part of the network Is the person you are attempting to add First Name Middle Name Last Name Suffix Nick Name Anna Schmidt the same person as any of the following select the matching person or choose the None option if there is no match Sel First Name Middle Name Last Name _ Suffix Nick Name C Anne Smith None of the persons above are the same as the person I am attempting to add OK Cancel Network Subgroup Identification These items ask the participant to select from a list of alters friends peers coworkers relatives anyone who is listed in a social network Therefore items of this type allow you to identify a subset of alters selected from a network Questions can be asked anyway you wish
16. list of alters in the process of completing the survey For example if a network analyst was interested in the breadth of social support provided by someone s social network it would be appropriate to ask questions in a way that not only included co workers and family members but far flung friends as well people not likely to be known in advance Each ego creates a network that is independent of all other egos networks Data collected about multiple egocentric networks are not connected to each other In the example below there are only three egos nodes 1 2 and 3 All others are alters about whom the egos describe relationships 13 Complete Sociocentric Networks When all members of the network to be examined are defined in advance the network type is complete or sociocentric For example the network analyst may know the names of all people in a company in a school or in any other type of formally organized group Because names are known in advance survey participants the network members themselves can be asked to identify others with whom they have a relationship or with whom they interact In a complete network all members are both egos and alters In the example that follows all nodes are both egos and alters and links can therefore be specified between any and all of them EH Egos Alters Hybrid Snowball Networks It is possible to create and use what we refer to as a hybrid network These networks s
17. preceding subgroup for the token name If no Network Subgroup Identification has been used all alters are included Thus when Social Rating items are asked of participants they get the same question about all alters within the network or their network subgroup on one web page as in the example that follows This item concerns Deadre Darling Deedee person I of 4 How long have you known Deadre Darling C Less than six months C Between six months and a year C Between one and two years C More than two years This item concerns Edward Earl Ellis ITI Eddie person 2 of 4 How long have you known Edward Ellis C Less than six months C Between six months and a year C Between one and two years C More than two years 23 Survey participants need to scroll down the page to see names that are not visible The Next button used to move to the next question is located at the bottom of each page The Matrix Response version presents item text once followed by a list of alters in the left hand column with responses for each alter in columns that follow to the right Responses are presented as radio buttons allowing only one but requiring one response for each alter In the matrix response no token is used How often do you seek inputs and opinions before making a key decision from each of these people Yearly Quarterly Monthly Weekly Daily Deadre Darling Deedee C C C C C Patrick Peter Pulland Pat Robin R
18. real can help you see the survey as your participants will see it Results of the demo are not saved 48 Cloning an Existing Survey Public surveys are always locked and Network Genie places a lock on private surveys once they are used If you wish to modify an existing locked survey Network Genie provides you a way to not have to start from scratch The Clone an Existing Survey link on your Home page will give you the option to create a new survey from an existing survey and make modifications to it Give the cloned survey a new name and if desired a description Select the survey you wish to clone from either a public or your private source Your newly cloned survey will appear in your listing of surveys on that page Click the survey link to work with the survey 49 All about Projects Network Genie projects are a way for you to organize the social network activities you are engaged in If you do consulting work for multiple clients you may want to have a different project for each client If you are a researcher and wish to organize your work according to the types of social network surveys you administer you can have a different project for each type of survey you design The choice of how you organize projects is yours and should be meaningful to you A Network Genie project is a flexible tool for you to use as you see fit Creating New Projects When you first create a project Network Genie will require you
19. the navigation area then click on the iis M Printer Friendly Login Info link just above the drop down This will display a PDF in a new 12 Page 2 125 x 3 625 window with the login information for your subjects in a format that can easily be printed The formats 3 columns of 10 names or 3 columns of 4 names correspond to commercially available labels and perforated paper stock for easy distribution Tracking Survey Completion Network Genie provides you with a tool for tracking the completion of surveys Network Genie tracks who has started and completed surveys View this information on the Subject Information page Home gt Project Main gt Activation Status gt Activation Maintenance gt Subject Information 63 Activating Egocentric Network Surveys Procedures for activation differ only slightly between complete network surveys and egocentric network surveys Select a project then click on the Administer Activate Surveys link in the navigation area This will open the Activation Status page Home Project Main Activation Status To create an activation of an egocentric network survey click on the Create a New Activation link in the navigation area You will see a page Home Project Main Activation Status Activation Maintenance similar to the one that follows The description is generated automatically but can be modified Select a network and a survey with the drop down menus On
20. the process of linking a survey to a network Activating Complete Network Surveys From the Home page click on a project name in the work area then click on the Administer Activate Surveys link in the navigation area This will open the Activation Status page Home Project Main Activation Status To activate a survey click on the Create a New Activation link in the navigation area You will see a similar page to the one that follows Home gt Project Main gt Activation Status gt Activation Maintenance 59 Activation Maintenance Project My First Project Create a New Activation Cancel Network Select Network Public Surveys Survey Select Survey Surveys belonging to Your Name Project Owner start Date December 8 2006 End Date December 8 2011 Subject Login IDs C Genie Generated ID Subject s E Mail Address Passwords Genie Generated Save Cancel Select a network and a survey with the drop down menus Only complete network surveys sociocentric surveys will be listed for complete network projects Make sure you select where surveys will come from either the public source or your own source Network Genie will present default start and end dates for this activation The default dates are the day of activation and five years subsequent You may wish to restrict data collection to specific time periods Select how you want Login IDs to be genera
21. you provide in the item text When these questions are asked of participants they are presented like you see them on the screen shot that follows The subject can double click on a name in the left hand column like Deadre Darling or highlight the name and use the gt button to move the name to the list on the right Who have you worked with Include people you have worked with directly in any kind of work relationship during anytime in your life Available Members i Selected Members Bulluck Bryan Jr Hill Hanna Helen Chalmers Charles Colbern Chuck Oliver Olinda Opra Darling Deadre Deedee Ruben Robin Renee Fantastic Fantasia Fan Ellis Edward Earl IIl Eddie Garfield Gregory Greg Imanny han Jones Jeffrey Jay Sr Jeff Kelly Katherine Karen Kathy Ledbetter Lauren Linda Lola Mitchel Mable Melinda Mel Newland Norvis Nathan Jr Nate Pulland Patrick Peter Pat Quick Quentin sumpter Stephen Samuel Il Steve Thomas Tyrone Terrel Tbone Underwood Ursela Vale Vanesa Valerie Van Walters William Walker Sr Bill Sort Name Last C First Search Clear Previous Item Next Item Your survey can be organized to nest subgroups Question 1 moves selected alters from All entire complete networks to SubGroup 1 the subgroup consisting of alters the ego had worked with sometime during his or her life Question 3 identifies alters who were part of SubGroup 1 ever worke
22. you to get it 29 Questions need to be worded with the tokens name1 and name2 presented somewhere in the question The order of placement of each token does not matter Network Genie substitutes names in the just preceding subgroup or all names if no Network Subgroup Identification item has been asked for each token name1 and name2 All alters serve as target peers for all other alters Thus as in the example that follows the participant will be asked to estimate how Edward Ellis feels about Fantastic Fantasia as well as how Fantastic Fantasia feels about Edward Ellis This item concerns Edward Earl Ellis III Eddie and Fantasia Fantastic Fan combination 1 of 20 In your opinion does Edward Ellis like working with Fantasia Fantastic Mo C Yes This item concerns Fantasia Fantastic Fan and Edward Earl Ellis III Eddie combination 5 of 20 In your opinion does Fantasia Fantastic like working with Edward Ellis F No C Yes Responses are automatically generated and are limited to No and Yes Be sure to word questions so that in cases where Alter 1and Alter 2 are not in each other s network survey participants know how to answer For example consider this question Does name1 like name2 If Alter 1 does not know Alter 2 you may have confused participants A better way of framing such a question might be Does or would name1 like name2 or If name and name2 were to spend time t
23. Delete Mave Up Mave Dn clase do vou feel to name In this case two questions are included in a single scale Data are available for analysis item by item Including multiple questions within a scale is for your convenience only If you always want to ask items together this may simplify survey creation Participants responses to Social Rating items are represented by the values assigned as weights Alters not included in subgroups are represented with a missing value e g in NEGOPY na in UCINet etc social Ranking You can ask Social Ranking items in both egocentric network surveys and complete network surveys Ranking items ask participants to put alters in order based on some high to low or low to high prioritization scheme For instance if asked Who have you known the longest participants would be required to put each alter in order putting the person known longest at the top of this list and the person with whom they are most recently acquainted at the bottom of the list It is important to let participants know which order high to low or low to high you are looking for A parenthetical explanation is helpful such as Put those you have known the longest at the top of your list 27 A survey rule is applied to Social Ranking questions When surveys are administered participants are barred from going to the next question until all names have been moved from the box on the left t
24. Name Your 36 Item Operations Creating surveys involves importing and ordering items from the Network Genie Library Use the links in the item operations Item Operations Input New Item portion of the navigation area to complete Import Item from Library your work Use the Import Item from Library w link on the navigation page to go to the Library search page where you can find Move Up items in the public or private Library Move Down You can import only one type of item at a time Items you have already included in the survey you are editing will no longer show up in the Library If you find that you need to create a new item this is easy as well Click the Input New Item link in the navigation area You will be redirected to the appropriate area of the Library where you can input a new item When you save the new item it will automatically be added to the survey and will be saved in your private library You can toggle between the Network Survey Main page Home Survey Main Network Survey Main and the Person Centered Survey Main page Home Survey Main Network Survey Main Person Centered Survey Main by clicking on the top link in the navigation area Editing and Deleting Surveys and Items within Surveys You can edit surveys meaning that you can change its name description add and delete items and reorder items Make changes in the text boxes on the Survey Main page Home Survey Ma
25. Project Coordinators and Team Members assigned the privilege of Librarian e Clone An Existing Survey available to Project Coordinators and Team Members assigned the privilege of Librarian e Edit Coordinator Information available only to Project Coordinators When you work in Network Genie you have a choice You can start working with Projects Surveys or Library Items Until you are familiar with the tools at your disposal and have completed a project or two it may make sense to start your work in the Library to develop measures then work in the Survey section to put measures into a survey for collecting data and then move to the Project section to create networks and activate surveys to begin collecting data We present instructions in this order 17 Detailed Instructions All about the Network Genie Library Network Genie includes a library in which public and private items are stored Get to the library from your home page The public section of the library includes items the Add Edit Items in the Library Network Genie team has approved for general use The private section of the library includes items only accessible to you and your team Clone an Existing Survey Your Name Home Create a New Project Create a New Survey The library is divided into Social Network and Person Centered sections The Social Network section of the library includes items specific to egocentric networks and complete networks Th
26. a Friendship and Time Spent Talking have been administered to at least one participant and cannot be deleted Edit Del Friends in high school Image affiliation Time Spent Talking Edit Lock Network Genie will lock an item so that you can no longer edit it after an activation is closed You can edit items even after data collection has begun up to the point at which at least one activation s end date has passed See page 59 to learn more about how surveys are activated and how activations are closed As long as an item is not locked for editing use the edit feature to make minor corrections to surveys in order to fix misspelled words or correct the wording of a question You can change response categories and values collection has begun may cause data collected before and after the changes to be non comparable n You should note that editing items after data For example if you added a response category participants who provided answers before the change would not have access to the new response Your analysis of data that included both versions would be flawed Similarly if you change the text the meaning of participants answers may be changed If you edited Who do you like to read Who do you not like the analysis would be flawed When an item has become locked for editing the Edit button for that item will be disabled and it will appear grayed out The lock protects the item
27. a subsequent administration of the survey invited to participate as egos 66 Uses of Hybrid Networks There are both reasons for and reasons against developing hybrid networks What are good reasons for developing a hybrid network When we have asked social network researchers and analysts why they would want to develop a hybrid network their answers almost always include this reason they are starting with a somewhat complete network that is missing people who will be key players that need to be identified For example several teams have wanted to develop a broader list of people working in a particular field They knew the names and affiliated organizations of several people but they also had a strong suspicion that the network would be much larger if all the players could be identified They intended to use the hybrid feature an Egocentric Network Identification item within a complete network to broaden the network in the initial survey In these cases the survey also included a Text Response Social Rating item that included a request for people s email addresses In these cases the team understood that the information provided by the initial survey may be flawed People may not know or be willing to reveal another person s email address E mail addresses and alters names may be incorrect In other words they were prepared to follow up and to use the information listed primarily as a lead for creating a larger complete network for us
28. add as many items and responses as you wish to a scale You can enter any real number in the item Value field If you wish to have non linear values or values that are not integers you can edit the values response by response For example you may wish to reverse code responses for a given item If you enter responses in a low to high order you can click on the radio button next to each response and move it up or down until you have responses in the order you want them to be presented If you move an item up or down its original value will track with it Thus to reverse code responses either move the item response using the move buttons or change the values in the Value field 32 Because of our history in survey item development the Person Centered library has a large public section that includes scales used primarily in research on adolescent health behaviors sex drugs fighting However this library may also include scales of general interest More scales and items will be added as survey items in the public domain are incorporated When you create Person Centered Items you will be asked to classify the question For convenience Person Centered Items are organized into domains We give you four to choose from Demographic Behavior Mediator or Unfiled Demographic items ask questions about who the participants are So questions about gender age ethnicity race language spoken position or tenure in an organizat
29. all you will see are the Network Genie examples Projects H Network Genie Example Project Complete Network Your Last Mame First Mame Surveys EE EE EN II ERA EL OR OE EA ET REEN Network Genie Example Survey Complete Network Your Last Mare First Mame You open a project or a survey when you click on its name Looking at examples may be easiest to get to know your way around Network Genie In this section of the User s Manual you will be given a brief tour to help you get a glimpse of what Network Genie can do Example Survey Click on the Example Survey link Network Genie Example Survey Complete Network and you will see this in the work area Owner Your Name Network Survey Main Survey Network Genie Example Survey Complete Network Current Survey Network Genie Example Survey Complete Network order erou gem O C1 All gt Who have you worked with Include people you have worked with directly in any kind qi of work relationship during anytime in your life 2 Length of work relationship Who have you worked with recently Include people you have directly worked with in the past three months In the recent past who have you worked with the most Put the person who you spend the mast time with at the top of the list and the person you spend the least time with at the bottom of the list Put others in their relative positions in the list Who has the greatest potential ta be a lead
30. and a Network Genie generated Password Login IDs have leading zeros that are important to include Getting Login Information to Participants How do you get login information to participants You have two choices e mail invitations and paper invitations Each option is described below E mail Invitations From the Subject Information page Home gt Project Main gt Activation Status gt Activation Maintenance gt Subject Information you have the choice of inviting all participants simultaneously by clicking on the E mail Invitations to All button Or you can invite them individually by clicking on their e mail address which will send an e mail from mailerdaemon networkgenie com 62 You can edit the e mail invitation by clicking the E mail Invitation Text link in the navigation area Text is provided that you are free to modify If participants have e mail addresses and you elected to use the e mail address as their Login ID passwords and a link to the survey administration site are provided to participants in the e mail sent to them Because spam blockers may keep e mail from reaching participants tell them in advance to allow email from mailerdaemon networkgenie com Paper Invitations You can also provide participants with their Login IDs and Passwords using paper records You can generate the login information in a printer friendly PDF file To do this choose a format from the drop down list in
31. ble to you if you are a Project Coordinator and to you as Team Member if you are assigned the Analyze privilege Researchers using Network Genie are expected to have their own preference for data analysis You want graphs You want numbers Our analysis colleagues have your answers Visit the International Network for Social Network Analysis INSNA website http www insna org or http www insna org INSNA soft inf html to get ideas What Network Genie can do for you is to get your data ready for analysis by these programs Analyze Main Project My First Project Activations Action Network SC Survey tS Start T Status My First Network My First Survey 12 8 2006 12 8 2011 Active Analyze 3 Licensed Subjects 19 Un Licensed Subjects 0 Clicking the Raw Data button allows you to select which characteristics of the data to export Data Download Project My First Project Configuration Include Names C Include Person Centered Items Format Generic Comma Separated Values InFlow MultiNet Negopy C UCINet select Measures Cancel 71 You have the option to include or not include names and an option to include or not include Person Centered Items The default format is to export all data in a Comma Separated Value CSV file With this option you will receive data from all subjects and all variables Such files can be opened with text editors or spreadsheet programs Exported files are auto
32. consider to be very close friends Network Operations Then use the Network Operations tool to SubGroup Selection move this subgroup to be nested by selecting Not Specified Ok SubGroup 1 in the drop down list and then Not Specified clicking the OK button This will change the am information listed in the Group field from SubGroup 2 All 2 to 1 gt 1 1 This means that item SubGroup 3 3 will only be asked of alters selected when 42 participants answered item 1 If you stopped there your survey would look like this EE cq All 1 Who are your friends people you like and spend time doing things with Coa 1 it Relationship v3 Who do you consider to be very close friends CA 1 1 Degree of Closeness in a Friendship Cs All 2 Who have you done something with in the past 7 days C6 2 it Time together However note that item 5 continues to refer to AI or the entire network You have the ability to choose how item 5 is nested as well Using the Network Operations tool you can change its nesting from presenting all names to either presenting the names for SubGroup 1 or you can make it a subgroup of a subgroup by selecting SubGroup 1 1 Thus if you repeated the nesting process for the third subgroup item item 5 Who have you done something with in the past 7 days exactly as was done for item 3 both items would be nested under SubGroup 1 and known as 1 1 and 1 2 respect
33. d together to become alters in SubGroup 1 1 the subgroup consisting of alters the ego had worked with recently Question 10 identifies members who were part of SubGroup 1 ever worked together as part of SubGroup 1 2 alters the ego did not want to work with in the future Network Genie allows you great flexibility in moving in and out of nested subgroups You can ask questions about everybody or about only alters you are interested in based on some criterion Later we will give you ideas about how to develop and use Network Subgroup Identification items effectively Item 2 is a different type of question a Social Rating item When the is clicked the elements of the item expand as in the graphic below on the left The left graphic shows what you would see as a Project Coordinator as you design surveys Item How long have you known Hanna Hill Length of work relationship C Less than 3 months How long have you known name Less than 3 months iJ Between 3 and 6 months C Between 3 and 6 months C Between 6 months and a year C Between l and 2 years C C Between 6 months and a year iJ Between 1 and 2 years iJ Between 2 and 5 years i More than 5 years Between 2 and 5 years More than 5 years The graphic on the right shows how this type of item works This view is what a participant completing the survey would see The token name is replaced with Hanna Hill Hanna was the first person in Subgroup 1 Ther
34. der that they should appear in a survey Note the value associated with each response is what differentiates responses for analysis purposes Responses Add Delete Move Up Move Dn Not very close Somewhat close You can enter any real number positive and negative numbers with decimals in the item weight Value field If you wish to have non linear values or values that are not integers you can edit the values response by response For example you may wish to reverse code responses If you enter responses in a low to high order you can click on the radio button next to each response and move it up or down until you have responses in the order in which you want If you move an item up or down its original value will track with it Thus to reverse code responses either move the item response using the move buttons or change the values in the item Value field Participants cannot move forward if data about any alter is missing If you wish to allow missing data you will need to add a response such as I don t know or Skip this person You will need to define the value of this response as missing prior to analysis Network Genie places Social Rating items into scales If you wish to have only one item in a scale that is acceptable however it is also possible that you may want to include multiple questions within a Social Rating scale For instance consider the following example 26 Add Edit
35. dership positions or wish to get additional information about exemplars of a specific attribute Social Nomination items can be useful Responses consist of network members based on the latest Network Subgroup Identification item or the whole network if a Network Subgroup Identification item has not been asked whose names are presented in a drop down list Learn how to order and nest subgroups beginning on page 39 Who has the greatest potential to be a leader Select a Member Sort Name C Last First C Nick Previous Item Next Item Close Demo Results of these items are binary The selected alter receives a value of 1 All others receive values of 0 zero Social Peer Perception This item type asks egos about the perceptions of how their alters relate to each other Items can be asked in egocentric network surveys and complete network surveys We suggest using these questions sparingly and limiting the use of questions to the smallest possible network subgroup participants create Social Peer Perception items are asked of each ordered pair of alters and the number of questions expands geometrically N x N 1 Thus with 3 alters in the subgroup the ego will have to answer 6 questions With 5 alters in the subgroup the participant will have to answer 20 questions With 10 alters the respondent will answer 90 questions There are times when such information is needed and Network Genie has a way for
36. e Loains this area that will direct you to various functions you can perform Each link will take Edit Coordinator Information you to pages that will help you manage Network Genie activities The links available in the navigation area change as you select tasks to complete Crumbs show you where you are in the application For example if you were to click on Create a New Survey the crumb would change to be Your Name Home gt Survey Main You can click on the underscored words to take you directly to the section you ve pointed at Crumbs are presented throughout the manual to help ensure you are looking at the right page Work Area Each page also has a main task performance area to the right This is where you will do your work and see the results The work area for each tasks varies Each work area is labeled e g Library Main and contains links or tasks to complete Library Main Owner Your Name Item Maintenance Add Edit Items in the Library Survey Maintenance Survey O Network Genie Example Surve Complete Network Home Resources Help Contact Us Log Out Copyright amp 2006 Tanglewood Research Incorporated Examples Network Genie comes pre loaded with an Example Project and an Example Survey This is what the work area of your home page will look like All your projects and surveys will be listed When you come into Network Genie for the first time
37. e Person Centered library on the other hand includes questions you may wish to ask about the participants themselves the egos such as demographic items or items that assess the ego s behavior and attitudes When you create Person Centered Items or Social Network Items Network Genie automatically adds them to your private library where they will remain in perpetuity Other than the Project Coordinator only a Team Member who has been delegated Librarian privileges can create surveys The goal of the library is to help you build surveys efficiently The library can ET help you find and incorporate items already used so that you don t have to Itam Type reinvent the wheel nyl You can search both public and private Keyword libraries for items You can use item type key word words in a scale name or words in an item or previously i designed surveys to help you search dal d This can be especially helpful once YOU EE have items in your private library Because libraries can be large it may Search Reset take a minute or so for results to appear Monitor the progress bar on your browser to ensure the search has been started 18 Types of Social Network Items Network Genie provides a repertoire of tools for collecting data about social networks that make it easy to use to get the information you want This includes several types of Social Network Items Most were introduced in the Examp
38. e in a subsequent study There are reasons to avoid developing a hybrid network From an analysis perspective alters who are added who cannot also be egos severely limit analyses that can be conducted The data can really only be analyzed as a compilation of egocentric networks because reciprocal links are not available throughout the dataset Furthermore the availability of alters is time dependent Those who complete the survey early will not have access to added alters names If these people were inadvertently forgotten for some reason by early completers there will be a bias in the results There are as noted above many opportunities for error listing the same person twice misspelling names etc that cannot be controlled Finally if a Text Response Social Rating item is used to collect e mail address information only CSV files can be downloaded InFlow NEGOPY MultiNet and UCINet formats are not available These weaknesses may be acceptable you are the only one that can make that decision 67 How to Make a Snowball When you conduct a project using a hybrid survey Network Genie uses two network lists One the subject list you can view on the Subject Information page Home Project Main Activation Status Subject Information On this list you will see only egos names of non ego alters do not appear The second network list is automatically expanded to include the new names It is named the same as the prior list a
39. e most Put the person who you spend the most time with at the top of the list and the person you spend the least time with at the bottom of the list Put others in their relative positions in the list Available Members Selected Members Darling Deadre Deedee Oliver Olinda Opra Sort Name Last C First C Nick Search Clear Previous Item Next Item The Example Survey has four Social Nomination items items 5 6 7 and 8 Social Nomination items ask the survey participant to select only one person from the active subgroup Egos select alters from drop down lists The ego in our example is about to select Hanna Hill as the one person in SubGroup 1 1 who has the greatest potential to be a leader Who has the greatest potential to be a leader Selecta Member There is one last type of item in the Example Survey the Social Peer Perception type Participants can answer Yes No questions about how each alter views every other alter In your opinion does Deadre Darling like working with Olinda Oliver C No CO Yes Person Centered Items Network Genie allows you to ask Person Centered Items as well questions about who egos are what they do and what they think Click on the top option in the left hand navigation area the one that reads Person Centered Items The workspace on the page should now look like this Curent Survey Network Geme Example Survey Complete Network Item H Gender Female
40. e top of the page in the navigation area to get you to Person Centered Items Home gt Library Main gt Network Create a New Survey Scale Library Search gt Person Centered Scale Search Clone an Existing Survey Your Name Home gt Library Main Add Edit Items in the Library Once you have searched for items click the Edit button to change item details or the Del button to delete the item Network Scale Library Search Owner Your Name Edit Del Who have you worked with Include people you have worked with directly in any kind of work relationship during anytime in your life Edit Del Who have you worked with recently Include people you have directly worked with in the past three months Edit Del Who would you avoid working with in the future if you had the chance You need to answer this question is there is no one who you feel this way about When you are finished click the Save button If you wish to cancel your work click the Cancel button Delete Lock Once an item has been used to collect data from a survey participant Network Genie will lock the item and not allow it to be deleted from the library 34 When an item is delete locked the Del button will be deactivated and Eat Dell Time together will appear grayed out In the Eed Del amp avoidance example to the right two items Edit fos Degree of Closeness in a Friendship Degree of Closeness in
41. e will be other questions that ask about Olinda Opra Oliver Robin Renee Ruben Edward Earl Ellis Ill Eddie and Deidre Darling Deedee Only alters selected to be in SubGroup 1 will be included when this item is presented There is another Social Rating scale in the survey the last item Item 11 Can you tell which subgroup of alters this item will address This item will include members of SubGroup 1 2 These were alters who the ego had ever worked with not just the group the ego had worked with recently who the ego said he or she would not want to work with in the future One of the unique features of Network Genie is that it allows you to nest and un nest subgroups of alters Social Rating items are valuable for helping identify the strengths of relationships between egos and alters Results are stored as weights that are associated with each alter in the ego s network The third type of item in our Example Survey is a Social Ranking item Items of this type prompt the ego to list alters in rank order as indicated in the item text The ego needs to move all subgroup members from left to right making sure they are in a preferred order Participants need directions about how to order the people on the list As with Social Rating items Social Ranking item results are stored as weights reflecting the order of the alter in the list Here is how the question appears to survey participants In the recent past who have you worked with th
42. ed that you are free to modify E mail invitations will include a link to the URL as well as their Login IDs their e mail addresses and their unique Network Genie generated Passwords For cases where you know the egocentric subjects ahead of time you can generate the login information in a printer friendly PDF file To do this choose a format from the drop down list in the navigation area then clicking on the Printer Friendly Login Info link just above the drop down This will display a PDF in a new window with the login information for your subjects in a format that can easily be printed The formats 3 columns of 10 names or 3 columns of 4 names correspond to commercially available labels and perforated paper stock for easy distribution Printer Friendly Login Info 30 Page 1 x 2 75 30 Page 1 x 2 75 Special Cases Hybrid and Snowball Networks When Egocentric Network Identification items are included in complete network surveys the resulting network list will include both egos and newly added alters see page 14 These networks are special cases and you should have a good reason before you launch a project that uses a hybrid survey The essential difference between a hybrid and a snowball network is e A hybrid network includes alters who have no opportunity to become egos they are added by egos who are already part of a complete network e A snowball network is one in which alters added in a hybrid network are in
43. enee Ruben Ursela Underwood Xavier Xenon Xman Edward Earl Ellis III Eddie Previous Item Next Item The Text Response version embeds each alters name in the text of an item using the name token name Respondents enter text responses Item text and response text box repeat for each alter This item concerns Deadre Darling Deedee person 1 of 4 What word would you use to describe your relationship with Deadre Darling M This item concerns Gregory Garfield Greg person 2 of 4 What word would you use to describe your relationship with Gregory Garfield lt lt e oe Data collected with surveys that include Text Response format items will only be available for download in the generic comma separated value CSV format This excludes being able to export in other formats InFlow UCINet NEGOPY and MultiNet 24 No matter which response type is selected when creating a Social Rating item you first give the scale a name You must also define which response type will be applied to all questions in the scale Note that the Classic type is the default Scale Setup Information Save Scale Setup Information Domain Social Network Scale Description Response Type Classic Alter name is embedded in item text using name token and respondent chooses from a list of radio buttons Item text and response choices repeat for each alter C Matrix I
44. eness in a Friendship Who have you done something with in the past 7 days E Time together tl How much time have you spent with name during the past week Associating items with subgroups makes creating surveys very flexible The Network Operations feature allows you to associate Social Rating Social Ranking Social Nomination and Social Peer Perception items with Network Subgroup Identification Items This allows you to ask the appropriate question of each network subgroup that participants create There is no undo function If you associate an item with a subgroup by mistake just perform the operation again 41 Nesting Subgroups One of the most powerful features built into Network Genie is the ability to nest subgroups You can create hierarchies such as To demonstrate how nesting subgroups works let s start with the following survey This survey contains three Network Subgroup Identification items and three Social Rating items 1 Al 1 Who are your friends people you like and spend time doing things with 32 1 Relationship C3 Al 2 Who do you consider to be very close friends Ca 2 tl Degree of Closeness in a Friendship C5 Al 3 Who have you done something with in the past 7 days C6 3 it Time together What if you wanted the second subgroup item to ask only about alters already in SubGroup 1 To create a nested subgroup select a subgroup item you wish to nest e g Who do you
45. ent has been granted they will not be allowed to login You will receive an e mail containing this information Survey participant Participants Name attempted to login to your Network Genie Project Project Name in an activation with Network Network List and Survey Survey Name however informed consent has not been recorded for this participant in this activation Therefore the participant was not allowed to start the survey You will need to acquire informed consent for this participant and record it in Network Genie before he or she will be allowed to complete the survey 52 Network Genie also allows you to select Passive which defaults all participants as having consent This option is provided for cases where opt out options are required If there are participants who for one reason or another will not be allowed to participate you can change their status If you select None Network Genie will assume that informed consent is not needed and that all participants will be granted access to surveys when they are activated Order of Presentation You have a choice about whether or not Person Centered Items should be at the beginning or end of the survey This is a required element that needs to be defined before a project can be created You can change your preference later Save or Cancel Click the Save button if you are happy with what you have done If you want to abandon your work click
46. er Whois the mast humble Has tremendous ability and makes great contributions but does not seek glory or praise Who talks the most Who talks the least In your opinion does namei like working with 1namez r Who would you avoid working with in the future if you had the chance You need ta answer this question is there is no one who you feel this way about Reasons for disliking co workers The Example Survey is one you can play with if you wish The Example Project which we look at later uses a locked copy of this survey therefore any playing you do here will not affect the operation of the Example project A word about terms Network Genie is specifically designed to conduct social network analysis projects e The Network Genie manual uses the terms ego and egos to refer to the participant who is completing a survey The terms alter and alters are used to refer to people in the participant s social network There are several items and item types in the Example Survey It does not contain an exhaustive combination of item types but you can get the general idea of how surveys work Social Network Items In the graphic on the prior page there are three items printed over a gray background Questions 1 3 and 10 These are Network Subgroup Identification questions Items of this type allow egos to indicate subgroups of alters in response to questions prompts or directions
47. ew projects from existing projects 3 If you have other projects on which people serve as N Team Members importing them to a new project will simplify the task of organizing your team On the Project Team Member Selection page Home Project Main Project Team Member Selection click on Import Team Members to be guided through this process Network Genie keeps track of who works on which project and what privileges they have with each project When you import a Project Team Member the same privileges they have on the project from which they are imported will be kept Of course you may edit these privileges To remove a person from a project select the Team Member from the Member Selection page Home Project Main Project Team Member Selection When you click the Delete button on the Team Member Maintenance page Home Project Main Project Team Member Selection Team Member Maintenance he or she will be removed from the project As long as Team Members are affiliated with at least one project they will remain registered with Network Genie If Team Members other than people who are otherwise registered as a Project Coordinator are removed from all projects their identities will be removed from Network Genie 55 Social Networks Lists Lists of names members of complete networks and individuals who will complete egocentric network surveys are managed within projects a i Only a Project C
48. for analysis by other applications formatted as you need it Network Genie provides only the simplest of analyses Clicking the Analyze button from the Analysis Main page Home Project Main Analyze Main provides these data The first data table will provide you with the number of links between participants including outbound links inbound links and unreciprocated links The second data table will provide you with the binary adjacency matrix from data collected This table is only presented when the network consists of fewer than 100 participants 72 Both the number of links table and the binary adjacency matrix note the presence of any link Therefore if there are multiple Network Subgroup Identification items the matrix will reveal the presence of links among any of these items When only one question is asked interpretation of these data is straightforward When you ask more than one social Network Subgroup Identification item such as Who are your friends and Who are your enemies the resulting table and matrix will reflect links to both items 73 Data Security Policies Network Genie is designed to store your data in perpetuity When required by a human subjects protection committee data can be removed from the Network Genie server Deleting data requires a Network Genie administrator s assistance and should be arranged ahead of time An additional fee is required for this service The data collected by Network
49. g Data SEE ES EE ES ee 11 What the Example Has Demonstrated 12 Network Types Egocentric Complete or Hybrid 13 Egocentric Personal Networks 13 Manual Organization llle 16 LOCK DOWN RR NE ER NE EE SEA TE 16 RESIrICUONS u a acia re REKE oe HERE SS RA pP CERE ER Me KERE d 16 alle MAREE EE OE OO EE bee ET 17 General Functions EES EES SE SS ee ee se 17 vi Detailed Instructions leen 18 All about the Network Genie Library 18 Types of Social Network Items 19 Person Centered Items llle 32 Editing and Deleting Items SE SE 34 All about Surveys lesen 36 creating SUE Veys 14 x oe o CEA e AC CR 36 Item Operations SES EE ES EE eee 37 Editing and Deleting Surveys and Items within Surveys 37 Working with Items in Network Subgroups 39 Egocentric Network Survey ltem Restrictions 4T Looking at Surveys 0 0 00 ccc eee ee 48 Cloning an Existing Survey lle 49 All ADOUE Pr ieels 3 664 008 oo Ee unb CC ewe dod ds ee es 50 Creating New Projects 2 000 e eee 50 Project ROES eoe rk ee eS S REAL ERA ENS 54 Social Networks Lists lllssl n 56 JACHUVOIOD us OE N EE GE ETE en 59 Special Cases Hybrid and Snowball Networks 66 Paving Tor Data ua m 3 abac
50. i a ete etd A ete e d eed 69 Retrieving and Exporting Data 71 Data Security Policies Se ss Es 74 Sene MCCC 75 lige RE OE EE OR ET EE N OE N T 76 vii viii My Account Login ILx Password Logn Rusal forgot my pass ond Project Coordinator Registration Take a survery Network Gene makes it easy and affordable to design and manage social network survey propects Network Genie helps vou Design network surveys and survey questions Manage socal network peopecis Collect social network data umg online forms e Download and expert cata to the soan network anabisas program of your choice Learn More about Getting Started Cog E DON Tiape Pian Dnoscpecims Getting Started Getting started with Network Genie is easy and only takes a few minutes Pages 1 through 12 of the User s Manual are intended to be a brief tutorial about what Network Genie does and how it functions Detailed instructions for using Network Genie start on page 13 Like nearly all online services you need to register to become a Network Genie user Go to https secure networkgenie com admin and click on the hyperlink text that reads would like to register as a project coordinator The information you need to provide is pretty standard name physical address e mail address and telephone number Pick a password Network Genie will remind you about your password via e mail if you forget
51. ility to add others as Team Members to a project and edit Team Member profile information e Ability to create and modify projects e Ability to create and modify members of social network lists e Ability to activate projects for data collection e Access to Add Edit and Delete functions in the library that will allow you to manage items scales and surveys in your private library 54 e Ability to retrieve data and to complete export and analysis functions Network Genie refers to the people who work with you on a project as Team Members These may be collaborators project managers and assistants The specific role each plays is up to the Project Coordinator to define Each Team Member can have as few or as many privileges as you wish You can edit Team Members privileges To add new Team Members and assign them privileges select a project from your home page and click on Maintain Project Team in the navigation area You can view who is currently included in your team You can create a new member from this page Home Project Main Project Team Member Selection Click on either the Create a New Member link in the navigation area or click the Add New button in the work area Privileges are project specific When you add new Team Members they are automatically added to the current project If you start a new project they will not automatically appear However you can import individuals or entire teams to n
52. ill not be allowed to use a complete network survey or import complete networks into an egocentric project e If the project will use a complete network do not check the Egocentric box 1n You cannot mix egocentric network surveys and complete network surveys within one project 51 You can switch back and forth between Egocentric Network surveys and Complete Network surveys up until you launch your first activation Once you have activated a survey Network Genie will lock the project type and will not allow changes Informed Consent Selecting an informed consent option is required Network Genie will help you track informed consent if it is required but it assumes you have procedures established for informing participants and securing their consent If you are conducting research or are otherwise required to obtain informed consent from participants or in the case of children from participants parents or guardians the responsibility for gaining approval from the human subjects protection committee rests with you It is the Project Coordinator s obligation to secure required permissions and to follow regulations that govern the protection of human subjects If you select Active informed consent Network Genie will require you to verify that informed consent has been received before participants will be allowed to answer surveys When participants attempt to login before you have recorded that informed cons
53. in and clicking the Save button when you are finished To delete an entire survey click on the survey that you would like to delete from your home page From the Network Survey Main page Home Survey Main Network Survey Main click the Survey Main link Home Survey Main in the navigation area Clicking the Delete button will delete the survey but not the items from the Library If the survey has been administered the Delete button will be deactivated Once a survey has been used to collect data Network Genie will lock it and not allow it to be edited or deleted 37 delete items 2 If corrections are needed clone the survey to add or Delete an Item Select the item by clicking on the radio button next to it on either the Network Survey Main page Home gt Survey Main gt Network Survey Main or the Person Centered Survey Main page Home gt Survey Main gt Network Survey Main gt Person Centered Survey Main Click Delete Item in the navigation area The item will be removed from the survey if the survey is not locked The item will remain in the Library There is no undo function If you mistakenly delete an item use the Import Item from Library link to retrieve it Move an Item Up or Down Select the item by clicking on the radio button next to it on either the Network Survey Main page Home Survey Main Network Survey Main or the Person Centered Survey Main page H
54. ion political affiliation and socioeconomic status are all demographic topics Behavior topics focus on what the participants do Do they smoke How many hours a week do they work What functions do they perform in their job How much time do they spend on the phone These all fall within the Behavior domain Questions that fall within the Mediator domain ask about attitudes skills personality beliefs and values So for example self esteem tendencies to use rational versus impulsive decision making attitudes toward work and perceived acceptance by a group are all questions that would be classified as mediators If you are unsure you can keep an item in the Unfiled domain can give the correct answer a value of 1 0 and y If your scale is designed as a test of knowledge you incorrect answers values of 0 0 33 Editing and Deleting Items You can edit and delete Social Network and Person Centered Items First use the Your Name Home Library Survey Maintenance link in the E CE EE navigation area to go to the Library You get Add Edit Items in the Library there from your home page Create a New Project Once you are on the Library Main page Create a New Survey Home gt Library Main click the Add Edit Items in the Library link to get to a search page Home gt Library Main gt Network Scale Library Search Note the default lets you search for Social Network Items You can toggle with the link at th
55. ively That is the only alters that will be considered for both the second and third Network Subgroup Identification items will be those participants select in response to item 1 This nesting option would yield a survey that Order Group C1 All 1 Who are your friends people you like and spend time doing things with C2 1 amp Relationship Who do you consider to be very close friends C4 d Degree of Closeness in a Friendship me Who have you done something with in the past 7 days C6 za Time together looks like this However you could nest even one more layer down For example if you had nested the second Network Subgroup Identification item under SubGroup 1 you could then nest the third Network Subgroup 43 Identification item under SubGroup1 1 which would then be known as SUDGroup 1 1 1 Participants would only identify who they had done things with in the past 7 days from among their close friends Item Who are your friends people you like and spend time doing things with Relationship Who do vou consider ta be very close friends Degree of Closeness in a Friendship Who have you done something with in the past 7 days Time together One more example suppose you wish to have participants create a new subgroup using the entire network as its source What if you want to identify alters not liked by egos If you add a Network Subgroup Identification item at this point Who would y
56. l Rating 7 8 23 25 27 39 42 44 67 Sociocentric iii 13 14 60 Start and End Dates 60 Subgroup 6 8 21 23 28 31 39 47 73 Subject Information 10 56 61 63 65 68 Support i 13 75 Team Member 1 17 18 36 54 55 70 71 Text Fields 19 Text Response 23 25 67 Token 7 23 25 30 Transfer Network List 57 UCINet iii 24 27 31 67 72 Unfiled 33 78
57. le Survey Each will be described in detail below Egocentric Subject Identification Inclusion of this item type is what makes a survey egocentric In fact you cannot use this item type with complete network surveys or in complete network projects It can only be used in egocentric network Surveys These items ask the participant to give his or her name This is a required item type if you are conducting an egocentric survey and will be automatically placed first in the survey You can use any text you wish You can ask for names If you wish to allow your participants to remain anonymous you might consider giving instructions such as Who are you You can use a fake name if you want to remain anonymous but you should include a fake first and last name When the participant views this question the text will be displayed as you have written it and Network Genie will add in First Name Middle Name Last Name Suffix and Nick Name text fields automatically to look like this Who are you Please give your first ond last name First Name Wiliam 0000 Middle Name N Last Name Normandy 00000000000 Suffix Nick Name FN First Mame and Last Name are required fields Next Item 19 Egocentric Network Identification These items ask the participant to provide a list of alters friends peers coworkers relatives and is a required item in any egocentric network survey you create You ma
58. lewaad net Deadre Deedee ddttanglewood net Edward Earl I Eddie eef tanglewnod net Fantastic Fantasia Fan fotandlewnnd net to import a new list of network members 2 Using a correctly formatted CSV file is the easiest way If you choose to upload a CSV file you will be directed to browse to the file on your computer If the upload is successful the network will be displayed You can add and edit individuals if there are missing network members or errors If you made an error in the file you uploaded click the top Select box and remove the file You can use the Acquire button to add new or additional members to the network Append from Another Project From the Acquire Network Members page Home gt Project Main gt Manage Network Lists gt Acquire Network Members click on the radio button to append a network list from another project Because this is a new network list the complete contents of the network list will be added under the new name you have given it This performs the same function as if you had selected Transfer Network List from Another Project on the Manage Network Lists page Home gt Project Main gt Manage Network Lists If the acquisition is successful you will be routed to the Network List Maintenance page Home gt Project Main gt Manage Network Lists gt Network List Maintenance which will list the newly imported network members Manual Entry You can also man
59. ly egocentric network surveys will be listed Create a New Activation Save Cancel Description Master Ego Centric Activation Friday November 17 2006 C Public Surveys survey Select Survey T Surveys belonging to Bill Hansen Project Owner Start Date November 17 2006 End Date November 17 2011 subject Login IDs C Genie Generated ID C Subject s E Mail Address Generic Logi Subject Login ID Password Cancel Select how you want Login IDs to be generated Genie Generated IDs or E Mail Invitations It may be that you know who your participants are in advance and what their e mail addresses are If you want to use their e mail addresses as login IDs select this option Otherwise allow Network Genie to generate IDs for you 64 You are also required to provide a separate Generic Login ID and Password This is asked for in case you decide to add a participant who was not originally scheduled or in case you wish to set up data collection as an open ended event the kiosk option When you click on the Save button you will have activated a new egocentric survey Click the Edit button to change the details of this activation Click the Subjects button to work with subject lists survey you cannot delete the activation You can Once data has been acquired using an egocentric however add participants to the subject list Administering Egocentric Surveys
60. matically zipped to conserve space and because some formats generate multiple files to allow these files to be kept together There are four formats specific to social network analysis programs that are supported These have been grouped by the name of an exemplary program that uses each format including InFlow MultiNet NEGOPY and UCINet Users familiar with analysis should be able to select from among these options to get data formatted for the application they plan to use for analysis For each of the social network analysis formats the user is also prompted to select which survey variables to export as not all programs can handle all variables simultaneously If you choose a format that corresponds to a program that only accepts integer input values the Network Genie will truncate the fractional part of any floating point values that are being exported However the floating point values are not truncated in the Network Genie database and full values are available to export into another format when you wish to do so The Network Genie generic export format CSV does export floating point values which you may manipulate as you wish Upon selecting a format normal browser screens ask for instructions to open save cancel or get help You may also wish to use the data conversion utilities available at the INSNA website http www insna org INSNA soft inf html Because our primary goal is to help you retrieve data and export it
61. modified would harm the integrity of the project For example deleting a survey item after participants had started taking the survey would invalidate the data In the application buttons are typically grayed out or hyperlinks removed when a lock is in place In the manual lock down will be highlighted with this symbol There are times when you will be allowed to unlock prior steps When you are allowed to do this you will receive a warning from Network Genie You can cancel the step if you think it is unsafe to proceed Restrictions There are certain restrictions that are placed on some elements of work completed by Network Genie If there is an important restriction that you must know about and observe it will be highlighted with this symbol 16 Helpful Hints There are occasional helpful hints that we think will make your use of Network Genie easier or safer These hints will be highlighted with this symbol General Functions Your home page will contain several navigation links on the lefthand side of the page If you are a Project Coordinator you will have access to all of these functions If you are a Team Member only functions for which you have been granted permission will be available e Library Survey Maintenance available to Project Coordinators and Team Members assigned the privilege of Librarian Create a New Project available only to Project Coordinators e Create a New Survey available to
62. n Ennett University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Kate Ehrlich IBM Watson Research Center Kenneth Frank Michigan State University Steven Giles Wake Forest University Phillip Graham RTI International Linda Hargrove GEM Integrated Julie Hite Brigham Young University Emily Hoole Center for Creative Leadership Julia Jackson Newsom Tanglewood Research William B Johnson IBM Global Business Services Valdis Krebs orgnet com Greg Laskow Center for Creative Leadership Jennifer Lewis Society for Prevention Research Jennifer Martineau Center for Creative Leadership Jamie Newman RTI International Bill Richards Simon Fraser University Camille Ryan University of Saskatchewan Anja Schmelter Iseke Universitat Paderborn Andrew Seary Simon Fraser University Kia Thacker University of North Carolina Greensboro Thomas Valente University of Southern California Stanley Wasserman Indiana University NES GENIE Network Genie User s Manual Table of Contents SFIRPOGUIGUON sang os og EE ge ee aoe ards es eg ee ne R iii Acknowledgments llle IV Getting Started EES SEE SS ee ee 1 Network Genie Page Layout SS SS ES SE cee eee 2 Examples SS SS SS ee ee ee se ee ee 4 Example Survey llle 5 Social Network Items EE ESE cee ee se 6 Person Centered Items SES EE cece eee 9 Example Project SE SS cee eee eee 10 Administering Surveys SS SES eee eee ee 10 Retrievin
63. nd forth between the Available Members and Selected Members boxes as long as they are on this page When they click Next Item Network Genie will lock the Selected Members list If they wish to return to add or delete names in their list they will be warned that answers to any questions they have already answered about this subgroup will be erased The database created from answers are represented as binary values Alters included in the subgroup are represented with 1s excluded alters are represented with Os 22 social Rating Rating items are among the most common type of item used in business and social science In social network surveys these items require participants to make ratings about alters in their network or network subgroup Each Social Rating item will have a question or a statement that is associated with multiple responses from which a participant is expected to select one answer You can ask Social Rating items in both egocentric network surveys and complete network surveys There are three item response options available to users in designing surveys These include Classic Response Matrix Response and Text Response versions The Classic Response version embeds alters name in item text using a name token name and respondent chooses responses from a list of radio buttons Item text and response choices repeat for each alter Network Genie substitutes names of alters who were members of the just
64. nd only becomes available to you when you begin a new activation Thus the second list contains the original list of egos plus the list of alters added through the hybrid process So if you had activated a list titled My Network and completed a project using a hybrid survey and then decide to conduct a new administration of a survey using My Network that list will now include the names of all alters added during the first project What is not automatically included are email addresses for alters If you are using Genie Generated IDs and having participants use the ID number provided this is no issue Simply provide all participants with their Login ID However if you want to e mail invitations to participants and have them login using their email addresses you will need to update the network list to accomplish this To do so go to the Manage Network Lists page Home Project Main Manage Network Lists select the Edit an Existing Network List from This Project option select the network you wish to edit and add information by highlighting the name of participants and adding email addresses Make sure you save your edits Voila You now are able to conduct a true snowball project Edit Existing Member s of the Network List Sort Last Name C First Name C Nick Name Middle Name ERE 68 Paying for Data Network Genie is a fee for service application We ve taken a fair value approach to pricing we hope you will find reas
65. o the box on the right In the recent past who have you worked with the most Put the person who you spend the most time with at the top of the list and the person you spend the least time with at the bottom of the list Put others in their relative positions in the list Available Members i Selected Memberz Edward Earl Ellis Ill Eddie papa y Fantastic Fantasia Fan Quentin Quick Walters William Walker Sr Bill Zachias Zemma Sort Name C Last First C Nick Search Clear Previous Item Next Item Close Demo It is wise to use Social Ranking items only when alters in the network have been reduced in number to what should be a relatively small subgroup Output for Social Ranking items is the ordinal rank with the first alter in the list being assigned a value of 1 the second alter a value of 2 and so forth to the end of the list Alters not included in the network subgroup get values of O zero Social Nomination This type of item asks participants to nominate one and only one alter from within their network or network subgroup Social Nomination items ask for the identification of just one alter Typically these 28 questions ask the participant to select a network member who exemplifies a specific attribute leadership humor good looks Questions usually include superlatives such as most best least or Worst This type of item has a specific use If you are looking for nominations for lea
66. ogether would name 1 like it 30 You can use the name1 and name2 tokens multiple times Participants cannot proceed until all combinations of alters have been rated Results from participants answers to these questions are stored as 0 zero for no and 1 one for yes Alters who were not included in the subgroup are given missing values e g N in NEGOPY na in UCINet etc 31 Person Centered Items When you want to know about the participant the egos Network Genie provides you with a practical way to ask questions Person Centered Items available for use in Network Genie are all of the same format a question or statement followed by possible item response options from which the participant is asked to select only one valid response Domain Mediator Scale Description Happy at work cave Cancel Enter the Personal Rating item text How much do you like work Ei Enter the mutually exclusive response aptians in the order that they should appear in 4 survey Note the value associated with each response is what differentiates responses for analysis purposes Add Delete Move Up Move Dn hot much s little Person Centered Items are embedded within scales Because of this you first create the scale and save its description then create items in the scale then item by item add response categories Note that as in the example each response category has a value You can
67. ome Survey Main Network Survey Main Person Centered Survey Main You can only move one item at a time using the navigation links Move Up Or Move Down Once selected an item remains selected until a new item is selected If you wish to deselect all items move to a different Network Genie page and then return to the Survey Main page 38 Working with Items in Network Subgroups The subgroup nesting features of Network Genie makes it extremely powerful and useful for gathering the social network data There are specific rules for how you deal with network subgroups within social network surveys These rules apply to e Ordering items e Associating Network Subgroup Identification items and other item types and e Nesting subgroups To introduce how these rules work a detailed example follows If you created a new complete network survey and selected three Network Subgroup Identification items and three Social Rating items and simply imported them into your survey this is what the social network portion of your survey might look like 1 Al 1 Who are your friends people you like and spend time doing things with Co All 2 Who have vou done something with in the past 7 days 3 All gt 3 Who do vou consider to be very close friends CA Time tagether 3 Haw much time have you spent with name during the past week E Degree of Closeness in a Friendship Haw clase do you feel to name Haw da
68. onable and affordable with significant discounts for volume licensing e You can pay at the time you wish to export paying only for data from activated networks e You can buy a license in advance and get a better rate You cannot retrieve export or analyze data until you have paid Network Genie for the data you have collected You pay for Network Genie services through a secure online payment system To get there choose the Purchase a New License link in the navigation area from your Home page or from the License button or License Maintenance link on any un licensed activation on the Analyze Main page like in the example below You will be redirected to our secure store website The web address to pay for Network Genie surveys is http stores homestead com TanalewoodResearchlnc Detail bok no 261 The website contains current pricing information Prices are based on numbers of egos included in networks Analyze Main Project My First Project Activations hee eee eee My First Survey 12 8 2006 12 8 2011 Un Licensed Subjects 19 E Click the button above and enter a License Key to acess the analysis features for this Activation Once you pay you will be sent an e mail with information needed to complete the licensing procedure You enter license information on the License Input page Home gt Project Main gt Analyze Main gt License Input 69 The license key and activation code are like money
69. oordinator and Team Members 4 assigned the privilege of Social Network and Subject Maintenance are allowed to manage lists of names Navigate to the Manage Network Lists page Home Project Main Manage Network Lists from the project main page This page will allow you to create network lists in several ways You can 1 Create a new network list 2 Transfer a network list from another project or 3 Edit an existing network list from the current project Highlight the option you wish to use Options that are not available will be grayed out Create a New Network List Create a name to identify your network and click the Ok button You will be routed to the Acquire Network Members page Home Project Main gt Manage Network Lists gt Acquire Network Members You have three options for creating a list of subjects 1 Upload a list of subjects from an existing Comma Separated Value CSV file 2 Append a network list from another project or 3 Create a new network list by entering subject information manually CSV Files CSV Comma Separated Value files can be created with common spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel or Quattro Pro All information must be contained on the first worksheet page CSV files must conform to a preset format last name first name middle name suffix nick name e mail address There should be no header row 56 aaic tanglewand net bhigtanglewood net Charles Colbern Chuck ccgtang
70. ou NOT like to spend time with and an associated Social Rating item Dislike network members the survey would consist of 8 items If you import the item from the library after all your other work was done the new item will appear as a subgroup to the previous item Network Genie does this by default So item 7 would refer only to alters selected Who are your friends people you like and spend time doing things with Relationship Who da you consider to be very close friends Degree af Claseness in a Friendship Who have you done something with in the past 7 days Time together Who would you MOT like ta spend time with Tou do nat need to list anyone if you da nat want ta Dislike network members from among people the participant did things dud Operation with in the past 7 days SubGroup Selection Not Specified 7 Ok To make it refer to the entire network select i pected mE MEM Item 7 and use the Network Operations tool ANE D to move it to All The network list this item SubGroup 1 l l SubGroup 2 will now refer to will be the entire network Its SubGroup 3 44 relative position did not change however as can be seen in the Group column in the example below alters identified will now become members of Subgroup 2 Further alters are selected from the entire network orger Grou em xl All gt 1 Who are your friends people you like and spend time doing things with Oe Rela
71. project You can add edit or delete network members list if you already have a network list created Transferring a network is the easiest way to import a Edit an Existing Network List You can edit an existing network list from within your current project by clicking on the radio button Edit an Existing Network List from This Project located on the Manage Network Lists page Home gt Project Main Manage Network Lists Select the network list you would like to edit and click the OK button You will be routed to the Network List Maintenance page Home Project Main Manage Network 58 Lists Network List Maintenance From this page you can add edit and delete network members You can also change the description for the network list or remove an entire network list by clicking on the Remove button network list or delete members from the list New members can be added Information about existing members can be edited e g the spelling of names e mail addresses etc Newly added members will show up as alters when subsequent surveys are administered however new members added after activation will not be allowed to login to complete surveys for an existing activation 2 Once data have been acquired you cannot remove the Activation What makes social network survey data collection different than all other types of data collection is that questions refer to a social network Activation is
72. s from having two forms that might confuse analysis consider recreating the contents by cloning it into a new item and using that item from then on JJ If you wish to change the item after it is locked 35 All about Surveys Once items are developed creating surveys is easy You can use items from both public and private libraries to create surveys Surveys can and quite often will contain both Social Network and Person Centered Items Other than the Project Coordinator only a Team Member who has been delegated Librarian privileges can create surveys See page 54 of the User s Manual to learn about how to add Team Members and assign privileges Creating Surveys You can create social network surveys in Library Survey Maintenance several ways Two options are presented to you on your Home Page You have the option to create a new survey from scratch or Create a New Project to clone an existing survey that you can then edit and modify You can also click on the name of a survey listed on your home page to edit it When you create a survey you first have to give it a name It is also helpful to give it a description This becomes especially useful as you develop multiple surveys Add Edit Items in the Library Survey Main Survey My First Survey Modify Survey Parameters Synopsis This is a sample survey for demo purposes Your Name Cancel Projects Using this Survey My First Project
73. st Egocentric Survey Current Survey My First Ezocentric Survey ETIESE EE EE Ee Ie r9 Al Who are your friends Ege Centric Network Identification 2 Al What relatives have you talked ta in the last month gs Centric Network Identification C4 Al amp Social Support 47 Looking at Surveys Network Genie gives you two ways to look at surveys you have created You can see the entire survey as a new web page This is useful if you want to create a PDF or copy the entire survey to include in a document to show to others who may not have privileges to view your account From either the Network Survey Main page Home Survey Main gt Network Survey Main or the Person Centered Survey Main page Home Survey Main Network Survey Main Person Centered Survey Main click on the Preview Survey link on the left menu bar A pop up page will appear with your survey What is not presented is any nesting information However all questions and responses will be presented You can also take your survey to test how it will work with your subjects From Network Survey Main page Home Survey Main Network Survey Main or the Person Centered Survey Main page Home Survey Main Network Survey Main Person Centered Survey Main click on the Demo Survey link A new page will open and you can take the survey as an anonymous subject You will have a demo network to work with Taking the survey prior to administering it for
74. tart as complete networks and then expand based on the addition of alters as egos complete surveys Respondents egos who complete surveys will view the entire list of alters including those who were added prior to when they started the survey The alters added by egos do not automatically become egos themselves they are not automatically invited to take the survey Thus ego entered alters will only have inbound links 14 In the example that follows three respondents nodes 1 2 and 3 each added alters expanding the complete network to include four additional nodes 9 10 13 and 17 Other respondents were subsequently allowed to establish links between these added alters but these alters were not included as egos 17 lll Egos Alters 13 L Alters Only Instructions about how to create hybrid networks are provided on page 20 A discussion of issues related to hybrid and snowball networks begins on page 66 15 Manual Organization The User s Manual is devoted to providing you with detailed instructions about how to use Network Genie There are several things to keep in mind as you use this application Lock Down Network Genie includes safeguards that help you protect the integrity of your work Network Genie keeps track of what you have completed As you progress from one logical step to the next the prior step gets locked down In certain instances Network Genie prevents you from altering some elements that if
75. tatus Activation Maintenance Subject Information you have the information you need to direct participants to the Network Genie survey administration site where they can complete surveys Once data have been acquired one participant beginning a survey you cannot delete an activation The Subject Information page Home Project Main Activation Status Subject Information will look something like this 61 Subject Information Project My First Project Network My First Network URL https secure networkgenie com survey Confidential Subject Information Save Cancel E mail Invitations to All Last Name First Name Middle Suffix Nick Name Informed Login ID Password Survey Name Consent Click E mail Address to send individual invitations Apple aa tanglewood net 311471 Completed INFORMED Started CONSENT Chalmers Charles Colbem Chuk mm lcGtanglewood net 812298 Not Started Bulluck EE Jr bb tanglewood net NO Not Note that this is the page on which active informed consent must be recorded if it is required In our example consent has been received for Amy Apple and Charles Colbern Chuck Chambers but not for Bryan Bullock Also note that in this example e mail addresses are used as login IDs If you elected to let Network Genie generate IDs for participants each participant will have a six digit number for a Login ID
76. ted You should only use participants e mail addresses if you have provided this information in the network list Note that in complete network surveys Network Genie automatically generates passwords for participants to use These will be random six digit numbers Passwords are activation specific If you are collecting longitudinal data from a set of participants you need to activate the network for each wave of data collection Each activation will have a separate set of non repeating passwords survey once If you wish to collect longitudinal data AN Participants are only allowed to complete an activated additional activations are required 60 When you click on the Save button you will have activated a new project that may look like this Activation Status Project My First Project Network My First Network Survey My First Survey Status Active Start 12 8 2006 End 12 8 2011 Subject Counts Total 19 Current D 0 0 Completed O 0 0 Edit Subjects Administering Complete Network Surveys All complete network surveys are administered from the URL https secure networkgenie com survey This is a secure site that sends encrypted data between the Network Genie server and the participants computers Once surveys are activated network members can be invited to complete the survey To do this click on the Subjects button On the Subject Information page Home Project Main Activation S
77. tem text appears once no name token followed by a list of alter names with radio button responses for each alter C Text Response Alter name is embedded in item text using name token Respondent enters text response Item text and response text box repeat for each alter Note Data collected with surveys that include Text Response format items will onl y be available for download in the generic comma separated value CSV format Current Scale Items Pe dd Fy ii M ova AF Once the scale and response type are defined you then add the item text and then for each question involving Classic or Matrix Response types add possible item response options Questions using the Classic Response and Text Response formats need to be worded with the token name somewhere in the question The Matrix response format uses no token Responses each get a weight the Value noted in the column next to each response in the example that follows Values not response text are recorded when data are collected Network Genie provides default item weight values for each response that begin at 1 0 and increase incrementally as integers 25 Save Cancel Enter the Social Rating item text Use the token name to represent where network names should be inserted The Save Item button is enabled after you have completed the item text must include the name m YL dvb g y Enter the mutually exclusive response options in the or
78. th name All 3 Who have you done something with in the past 7 days SUDGroup 3 became SubGroup 2 Notice that the Social Rating items associated with what was previously labeled SubGroup 3 also moved and are now associated with SubGroup 2 Associating Items with Subgroups What if you wanted something a little Network Operations different What if you wanted Social Rating ET ar items to be associated with different Network Not Specified Ok Subgroup Identification items For instance Not Specified presume you wished to associate item 5 in the example just completed Relationship with SubGroup 1 item 4 Degree of Closeness in a Friendship with SubGroup 2 and item 3 Time Spent Together with SubGroup 3 40 In the lower left navigation area you will see a special tool Network Operations If you were first click the radio button next to item 5 click on the Network Operations drop down highlight SubGroup 1 and then click the OK button the relationship question would now be placed immediately after the first Network Subgroup Identification item You could similarly move the Time Together item to be associated with SubGroup 3 EET 1 All gt 1 Who are your friends people you like and spend time doing things with 02 zi Relationship ti People play many roles Which role best describes your relationship with name Who do you consider to be very close frends E Degree of Clos
79. tionship UE Who do you consider ta be very close friends 4 PUR Degree of Claseness in a Friendship LE Who have you done something with in the past 7 days Cg RUNE i Time together Who would you NOT like ta spend time with You do not need to list anyone if you da nat want to Dislike network members The nesting feature makes Network Genie an extremely powerful tool for collecting social network data It s like moving from using hand tools to power tools You can gather social network survey data with Network Genie you could never gather with paper and pencil surveys Nesting is a powerful tool We suggest you have a clear reason for nesting when designing a survey The Network Operations tool located low in the Navigation Area is the tool used to change the order of question Use the Demo Survey link to ensure that items are in their proper order before launching the survey in a project Make sure the items are in the proper order before administering a survey The Demo Survey link in the navigation area can help you make sure the survey works properly 45 There are practical limits for using such questions In theory you could continue to nest question within question ad infinitum However in practice going three deep in any one area should provide you with more than enough data for analysis Create surveys that are logical and not too taxing on participants Learn when to use nesting and when
80. to complete basic information about the project New projects are easy to create and easy to modify Project Coordinators can create a new project from their Home page by clicking the link Create A New Project in the navigation area 1 Creating a new project is an option that is available only to Project Coordinators Naming Your Project You must give each project a description which becomes its name No matter what name you give to your project you can edit it later We suggest you describe projects so that you can distinguish them from one another 50 synopsis Including a descriptive synopsis is optional It takes a little extra time but if you begin to develop a lot of similar projects including a descriptive synopsis will be helpful to you later Project Registration Register a New Project Save indicates a required field Description Coordinator Your Name Synopsis Ego Centric Informed Consent Select Informed Consent Method Person Centered Select Person Centered Items Location Egocentric Network Projects Versus Complete Network Projects Projects can be of one of two types egocentric or complete network You can get a quick tutorial in the manual in the chapter titled Types of Networks Egocentric or Complete that starts on page 13 e If the project is egocentric check the box Network Genie will validate that you use an egocentric survey at the time of activation You w
81. to see available tutorials Network Genie Page Layout Network Genie pages are divided into three sections Header Navigation Area and Work Area CONTACT US LOG OUT Your Name Home I am not Your Name Home Page for Your Name Library Survey Maintenance Add Edit Items in the Library Projects Create a New Project Project __Coordinator__ Create a New Surve F Network Genie Example Project Complete Network Name Your Clone an Existing Survey Surveys HEER EE Ee N ee ee Edit Coordinator Information Network Genie Example Survey Complete Network Name Your Network Genie Manual Work Area Navigation Area Home Resources Help Contact Us Log Out Copyright 2006 Tanglewood Research Incorporated Network Genie a networking analysis tool for researchers Library Survey Maintenance Add Edit Items in the Library Header The header contains Genie s logo and buttons that can always be accessed to help you navigate or get help Home Create a New Survey Resources Help Contact Us and Log Out Create a New Project Clone an Existing Survey The bottom line in the header includes a crumb Purchase a New License Your Name Home License Maintenance Navigation Each page contains a navigation area on the left side There are hot links in Merg
82. ually enter or paste names into a network list When manually entering the names you must follow this format last name first name middle name suffix nick name e mail address Spaces after commas are not allowed 57 It is often easiest to copy and paste from a word processor document A sample of what the pasted should look like follows v Paste or Manually Enter Network Members into the following List See Help far format information Apple dmy Lynn aaltanglewoaod net Bulluck Bryan Jr bbetanglewood net Chalmers Charles Colbern Chuck ccltangl ewood net Darling Deadre Deesdee ddditanglewoaod ne t Ellis Edward Earl III Eddie eseeltanglewoo d net El Note that Amy Lynn Apple had a compound first name Amy Lynn no middle name no suffix and no nickname If a person s first name is compound spaces are allowed Transfer a Network List You can transfer copy a network list from another project you are working on to your current project From the Manage Network Lists page Home gt Project Main gt Manage Network Lists click on the radio button next to Transfer a Network List from Another Project and click the OK button Select the project and then the subject list you would like to transfer and click the OK button The Network List Maintenance page Home gt Project Main gt Manage Network Lists gt Network List Maintenance displays the participants you have added to the current
83. y also add items of this type to complete network surveys which will transform the network into a hybrid of complete and egocentric see page 14 Warning If you add an Egocentric Network Identification item to a complete network survey all respondents who subsequently complete the survey Will see these new network members in the list of possible network members Remember that those network members added by respondents will be added only as alters not as egos In analysis these nodes will only have inbound links See page 66 for help in working with hybrid networks You can use any text you wish such as Who are your close friends When the participant views this question the text will be displayed and Network Genie will add in fields for First Name Middle Name Last Name Suffix and Nick Name automatically to look like this Who are your close friends Please give the first and last names of your friends For this survey close friends are people your age at your school who you have done something with in the past week or who you have talked to a lot in the past week First Name Rachel Middle Name NE Last Name Suffix Nick Name First Name and Last Name are required fields Save Cancel Delete Doe Jane Add New Doe John Sort Name Last C First C Nick Previous Item Next Item 20 Note that the survey administration screen is divided into two sections Participants add names
84. you think of name z Relationship People play many roles Which role best describes your relationship with name For each of the three Network Subgroup Identification items your participants would draw names from the entire network For example participants answers to the first item will result in SubGroup 1 denoted by All gt 1 These three subgroups are not nested All alters names would be presented to the participant for each question When you create a social network survey Network Genie reminds you which subgroup a question will refer to The four Social Rating questions will all be asked about only the alters in SubGroup 3 39 By default when Network Subgroup Identification items are initially included in a survey other types of items that follow refer to the subgroup just identified Moving Subgroups and Items If you were to click the radio button next to item 3 in the example on the previous page and then click Move Up in the navigation area you would get the following result C1 Al 1 Who are your friends people you like and spend time doing things with 2 All gt 2 Who do you consider to be very close friends M3 2 iS Time together Haw much time have you spent with name during the past week Degree of Closeness in a Friendship Haw close do you feel ta name How do you think of name E Relationship People play many rales Which role best describes your relationship wi

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