Connected Action

My colleague Scott Sargent at Telligent notes that there are two sections of the March 29th Sunday New York Times feature articles illustrated with network graphs.  The Business section runs an article “Is Facebook Growing Up Too Fast?“ (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/technology/internet/29face.html) and the Style Section has an article on The Celebrity Twitter Ecosystem. My colleague Prof. Ben [...]

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Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #socialmedia #socialnetworking #visualization # Preparing for a talk at Web 2.0 next week: http://ping.fm/2dAf8 with Kate Neiderhoffer # @annemai #ocbf2009 Happy to chat, lets find a time! Email marc.smith at telligent.com. Social capital could == cohesion, for example. in reply to annemai #

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I will be speaking with Kate Niederhoffer from Dachis at Web 2.0 Expo Wednesday, April 1st at 10.50 in San Francisco.  We will be speaking about: Beyond Buzz: On Measuring a Conversation http://www.web2expo.com/webexsf2009/public/schedule/detail/6273 What is the most meaningful way to understand and measure a dialogue? As marketing transforms from a broadcast model to a conversational [...]

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There is a new version of NodeXL (v.79) available. Please help build visibility for NodeXL on Digg by digging this link. Many network analysts store their data in the form of a matrix in which each entity in the network is repeated as row and column headings.  Whenever two entities have a relationship a value [...]

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National Centre for e-Social Science http://www.ncess.ac.uk/conference-09/ 5th International Conference on e-Social Science 24th – 26th June 2009 Here is a conference for those in Europe: a meeting at the Maternushaus in Cologne, Germany is the 5th International Conference on e-Social Science.  The conference goals: The aim of the annual international conference on e-Social Science is [...]

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Twendz is a new twitter search and sentiment analysis tool from the public relations firm Waggener Edstrom (note the “WE” called out in the name) who have worked extensively with Microsoft over the past.  The tool is an interesting entry from “WagEd” that adds a dynamic aggregate sentiment measure that captures the general attitude towards the [...]

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#ocbf2009 Measuring social capital produced by social media – could use social network metrics-see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrality # At the Online Community Business Forum after a dead battery adds an hour to trip- thanks to Christine for helping me back on road! #Ocbf2009 # Heading to Online Community Business Forum in Sonoma tomorrow AM! http://twurl.nl/4uril7 #ocbf2009 # [...]

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Another conference focused on research on blogs and other forms of social media is “ICWSM” – the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media.  I was able to attend the previous meeting of this conference last March in Seattle and give a talk about different classifications of social media and I am looking forward to [...]

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ForumOne Communications has been hosting a series of high quality events for professionals in the Online Community business world for many years.  Jim Cashel and Bill Johnston created another great event this year in Sonoma.  The event tends to attract people who are actively managing an online community or social media space, either internal to [...]

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The 2009 meeting of the International Network for Social Network Analysis was recently held at the Bahia Resort Hotel in San Diego’s Mission Bay. Carter Butts delivered a talk about “simple things” that govern the structure of social networks like the limited number of configurations networks can take when the number of nodes is lower [...]

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Upcoming Forum One Online Community Events Online Community Business Forum 2009 March 19 – 20, 2009 Sonoma, California – The Online Community Business Forum — where top online executives gather to discuss the intersection of business strategy and online community, in Sonoma, CA. Mobile Social Media Unconference 23 April 2009 Palo Alto, CA – The [...]

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We recently released version 76 of NodeXL that opened up the network metrics to developers through an API. It the most recent release (v.78) we have improved on the graphical display layer used in NodeXL.  Earlier, we had been using GDI+, the basic drawing features of Windows.  Today, WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) is used in [...]

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A great conference on social aspects of technology is coming up soon: C&T 2009 June 25-27, 2009 The Pennsylvania State University Information Sciences and Technology Building In an increasingly networked world, the concept of community has taken on new meanings and inspired the development of a wide range of technologies aimed at forging connections, improving [...]

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Here is a slide deck that describes major features of the NodeXL add-in for Excel 2007: 2009 Node XL Overview: Social Network Analysis in Excel 2007 View more presentations from Marc Smith.   More documentation is in the works.  Please post questions to the Codeplex discussion board!

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Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy is hosting a conference on “Studying Society in a Digital World” Thursday - Saturday, April 23-25, 2009 at Princeton University http://citp.princeton.edu/front/conference-studying-society-in-a-digital-world/ Here are some standout people and talks at the conference: Lada Adamic, Michigan Eric Horvitz, Microsoft:  Through the Lens of a Large Instant-Messaging Network: Planetary-Scale Views on Behavior Nathan [...]

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