Spend some time with the ethnographer discussing issues and research topics of greatest interest. Give the ethnographer an overview of why the network wants to pursue the study. Spend some time with the ethnographer as the study progresses to see what sorts of information are being collected and to see if adjustments need to be made by adding additional questions or by refocusing some of the questions. When ethnographers interview, they tend to introduce topics and then listen rather than ask questions. There is often a difference between what people say and what they do, and the nature of these differences is important in ethnography.
Ethnographers also use documents, archives, memoranda, newsletters, and the like.
Ethnographers can obtain a variety of data from a variety of sources, and systematically assess the constant and variable patterns that range across the data. In addition to obsevation and interviews, archives, memoranda, newsletters and other documents can be used for analysis. Short-term ethnographic studies conducted by the national CEWG were very successful because they were conducted by experienced ethnographers already at work in the communities.