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Entries from April 2009

Marc’s Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-26

April 26th, 2009 · No Comments

@plasticbagUK Lalbagh gardens, Bannergahta zoo, MG road all good attractions. Sorry for misspellings. in reply to plasticbagUK # Heading to Maryland to see Ben Shneiderman, Jenny Preece, and Derek Hansen at U Maryland. # Photos from Princeton’s CITP – “Studying Society in a Digital World” conference – http://twurl.nl/ajg2fy – great talks about net research # [...]

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Marc’s Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-19

April 19th, 2009 · No Comments

C&T is June 25-27. NodeXL tutorial the day before. http://twurl.nl/ch06in Lots of great social media researchers will be there! # Final edits with Vlad for our Communities and Technologies 2009 paper about NodeXL: viz enterprise social networks in Excel. # @katenieder Granovetter “Weak Ties” = American journal of sociology, 1973 in reply to katenieder #

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Marc’s Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-12

April 12th, 2009 · No Comments

Social Computing 2009 – Call for Papers: Workshop on the Social Mobile Web – http://twurl.nl/gyk8v2 – August in Vancouver, B.C. # Nice review of Telligent Community Server, Evolution, and Harvest – social media analysis and reporting: http://twurl.nl/tmq2dg #

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Social Computing 2009 – Call for Papers: Workshop on the Social Mobile Web

April 9th, 2009 · No Comments

Call for Papers: Workshop on the Social Mobile Web Held in conjunction with SocialCom ’09 29th-30th August, Vancouver, Canada http://thesocialmobileweb.org The mobile space is evolving at an astonishing rate. At present there are over 3.5 billion mobile subscribers worldwide and with continued advances in devices, services and billing models, the mobile web looks set to [...]

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Tags: Collective Action · Conference · Medical sensors · Mobile Devices · Mobile Social Software · Social network · Sociology · Technology

Slides and Video from Web 2.0 Expo – Beyond Buzz

April 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Kate Niederhoffer and I presented a combined view of social media from the perspectives of social psychology and sociology.  Kate applies a linguistic background to analyze the content of social media while I bring social network analysis to bear on the structures created by connections created by links and replies. Beyond Buzz – Web 2.0 [...]

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Tags: Collective Action · Common Goods · Community · Conference · Measuring social media · Metrics · NodeXL · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social network · Social Roles · Sociology · Talks · Visualization

Marc Smith’s Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-05

April 5th, 2009 · No Comments

@drnatalie Happy to discuss social media network analysis: links of possible interest http://tinyurl.com/36jfla http://tinyurl.com/ff37d in reply to drnatalie # Thanks to Kate Niederhoffer for a great team talk at Web 2.0 today #w2e #buzzzz – social scientists for social media! # Thanks to our audience at web 2 – great discussion! Ping me if you’d [...]

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