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Kumu is a powerful data visualization platform that helps you organize complex information into interactive relationship maps.
Creativity feature:
🪶 French philosophy key concepts : buff.ly/FYhq2Q4
🏢 Birds-eye view of Portland planning: buff.ly/HTHM9OA
🌌 Systems thinkers: buff.ly/7gtSxNq
🍋 Weaving across ingredients & recipes: buff.ly/OmUuu1u
💌 Factors around informal caretaker wellbeing: buff.ly/4uk1OED

#systems
November 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Project of the Week: Micelio — mapping UCA’s research as a living network 🌱
At Universidad Centroamericana (El Salvador), Micelio turns open-science into an interactive map linking research lines → projects → publications → people.
Explore: (buff.ly/Eu5aJO4)
#OpenScience #SystemsMapping #Kumu #UCA
November 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Mapping Serbia’s AI ecosystem with Kumu 🇷🇸✨
Actors, projects & support programs—visually connected.
Explore by sector, region, or role.
Built by UNDP Serbia + collaborators.
🌐 English: buff.ly/i5u9Fcz
🌐 Serbian: buff.ly/LFePYBK
#Kumu #AI #Serbia #OpenData #SystemMapping
October 31, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Hello, Kumunity! 🌎
It’s United Nations Day — celebrating the UN’s founding in 1945.

We’re proud to see so many UN teams using Kumu to map systems, from stakeholder networks to food systems.

Here’s a great example from Ru’a Al-Abweh (UNDP Jordan) →
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#UnitedNationsDay #dataviz
October 24, 2025 at 7:19 AM
🌊 Project of the Week: BlueLinked’s systems views of the North Sea — data viz that reveals life below and collaboration above.
🐚Borkumse Stenen: the seabed web of species + habitats. buff.ly/VBtqSSR
🌍Marine Sector NL: the human web restoring them. buff.ly/UFBgfwk
#SystemsThinking #Kumu #BlueEconomy
October 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This week’s Project of the Week honors Jane Goodall. We visualized chimpanzee social bonds from a recent study as an interactive Kumu map — a small act of network storytelling made possible by open data.
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#JaneGoodall #OpenScience #Chimpanzees #Kumu
October 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
We visualized every INSNA award recipient since the 1980s — a living catalogue of social network analysis (SNA) scholarship.

Explore the map 👉 buff.ly/Imh7Kpd

#SNA #NetworkScience #DataViz #INSNA #Sunbelt2025
September 29, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Project of the Week: A super cool “Guide to Shock Maps in Kumu” shows how to run a Rapid System Assessment — mapping how shocks ripple through a system, using a hypothetical example of COVID-19 restrictions in Karamoja, Uganda.

📄 Guide: buff.ly/vtfk5Gn
➡️ Map: buff.ly/nmWgo07

#Systemsmapping
September 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
As #AfricaClimateSummit wraps in Addis, spotlight on the Global Climate Action Ecosystem map — a Kumu-built tool showing how climate actors connect, from AFR100 to Restore Africa.

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#ClimateAction #SystemsThinking
September 12, 2025 at 11:21 PM
On Eid Milad-un-Nabi, a reminder of compassion & community, we’re lifting up global stories told through Kumu — from France to NZ to the US.

See the full post + links on LinkedIn 👉 buff.ly/vWaMA4m

#SystemsChange #SystemsMaps #DataViz #PoweredByKumu
September 5, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Project of the Week: Geoffrey Schwartz’s Kumu map is a systems atlas of thinkers, movements & campaigns experimenting with new models. Not just ties, but links of meaning — tracing pathways of change & showing where alternatives converge.

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#systemschange #alternativefutures
August 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
What if the lived experience of an outlier holds the lever for systems change? 💡

In this episode of the In Too Deep Podcast, Jeff Mohr talks with Matt Healey about how interpreting data differently can shift the way we understand systems.

🎧 Listen now on the In Too Deep Podcast: buff.ly/meqA9HJ
August 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Hello, Kumunity! This week’s spotlight is on a Kumu project developed by Marie Axelle-Bord and ADEUS, covering stakeholders in the forest and wood industry across Strasbourg/Alsace and surrounding territories in the Grand Est region of France.

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#DataViz #Forestry #GrandEst #Alsace
August 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This week, we’re showcasing a project by Matt O’Brien that sheds light not on a network, but business operations! He does an excellent job using Kumu to show how strategies, challenges, and capabilities connect to actual business value.
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#projectmanagement #poweredbykumu
August 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Project of the Week: SOWTH’s Growing Network
Abbie Cohen & the Project Pollinate team visualized how 1,200+ food actors came together—and wove a stronger southern ag network.
Smart storytelling. Real insight.
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#networkmapping #SOWTH #dataviz
August 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Kumu Project of the Week: a creative map from the Education Finance Network showing who’s doing what (and where) in non-state education. Built by @NatalieDavirro, with helpful filters + a network view for partnerships.

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July 31, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Mapping Serbia’s AI ecosystem with Kumu 🇷🇸✨
Actors, projects & support programs—visually connected.
Explore by sector, region, or role.
Built by UNDP Serbia + collaborators.
🌐 buff.ly/LF4BfCw
#Kumu #AI #Serbia #OpenData #SystemMapping
July 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
🎙️ New Podcast Episode 🎙️

What if the real problem isn’t what we think it is? When simple solutions don’t actually move the needle, it’s often a sign we’re treating symptoms, not systems.

Listen in through your favorite podcast platform or read the full transcript on blog.kumu.io !
July 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Project of the Week

My goodness are we excited to showcase this project with you, it is a class on systems thinking and modeling created by The Sustainability Lab and Conor Meehan, built right in Kumu!

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#systemsmapping #systemsthinking #dataviz #poweredbykumu
July 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Project of the Week!
A systems mapping process of environmental governance in Siak, Indonesia—built w/ LTKL, UNDP, Daemeter & Systems Mapping Academy.
In English/Bahasa Indonesia, talking about river pollution, palm oil, rice policy, logging, governance!

🔗 EN: buff.ly/KrhDV4Y
🔗 ID: buff.ly/dgzPxGz
July 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Kumu Project Showcase: Honoring Juneteenth by Supporting Black-Owned Businesses

Last year, Holly Carter, Jacorey Moon & Jane Burnett shared 53 Black-owned businesses with a challenge:
“There’s never been a better time to put your money where your mouth is.”

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#Juneteenth
June 19, 2025 at 8:02 AM