Connected Action

There is some very positive coverage of Telligent recently in the press.  First there is the very detailed review of the community platform and its reporting features from Barb Mosher at CMS Wire: “Social Web Analytics with Telligent’s Harvest Reporting Server“.  The article does a great job of detailing the features of the Harvest social [...]

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I attended the Maker Faire down the hill in San Mateo at the County Fair Grounds. The event is the gathering of the many forms of craft, tinkering, building, mashup, hacking, and experimental communities. Here are some photos from today’s event. My highlights: the full sized replicas of TV and movie robots from Lost in [...]

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A few weeks ago I attended a meeting at the University of Maryland in College Park of a working group proposing a new “National Initiative for Social Participation”.  The meeting brought together people from the major universities, research labs, and government funding agencies to think about an “Apollo Program for Social Media”.  The idea is [...]

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++ Last week’s NodeXL meeting focused on the coming work items for the next release.  Four major items are lined up for the next few weeks.  We may publish a release once a few of these items are complete. > Legends and axes with scale marks for the chart canvass. This is part of our [...]

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Vladimir Barash and I will soon present our poster paper http://ping.fm/ziWnc at #icwsm 2009. # RT @LLiu: Patrick Brandt now Telligent CEO; @robhoward now CTO http://bit.ly/1Eluo8 [V-excited 2have Rob focus on R&D while Patrick drives!] #

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New menu items have been added to NodeXL in the v.85 release made available today! These “Visual Properties” features are part of a larger set of work items intended to make it easier to manipulate and decorate a network graph in Excel. NodeXL recently crossed 8,000 downloads! Thanks to everyone for the interest and support [...]

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Here is an updated version of the introduction to NodeXL slide deck. 2009 – Node XL v.84+ – Social Media Network Visualization Tools For Excel 2007  View more presentations from Marc Smith. The slides will continue to update as we change the user interface and add new features to NodeXL.

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The recent 2009 ICWSM conference featured research into the nature of a wide range of social media. Some highlights: An Examination of Language Use in Online Dating Profiles Meenakshi Nagarajan, Marti Hearst Event Detection and Tracking in Social Streams Hassan Sayyadi, Matthew Hurst, Alexey Maykov Gephi: An Open Source Software for Exploring and Manipulating Networks [...]

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[Vladimir Barash is liveblogging the ICWSM conference] 10.30am A categorical model for discovering latent structure in social annotations (Said Kashoob) Given a collection of web objects, users and tags, can we model the underlying tag generation process? -Discover implict communities of interest? -Categories of related tags? -For given category, id most relevant objs for category [...]

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[Vladimir Barash is liveblogging the ICWSM conference] 9-10AM: A Tempest: Or, on the Flood of Interest in Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining, and the Computational Treatment of Subjective Language (Lillian Lee) -Sentiment analysis using discussion structure: clasify speeches in US congressional floor debates as supporting or opposing proposed legislation -Individual doc classifier -agreement (degree) classifier for [...]

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On Tuesday night Marc Smith and I will be presenting the poster for our paper, “Distinguishing Knowledge vs Social Capital in Social Media with Roles and Context” at the International Conference for Weblogs and Social Media. You can find the poster, co-authored with Marc Smith (Telligent Systems), Lise Getoor (University of Maryland) and Howard T. [...]

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Monday attending “Social Graph Symposium” – http://ping.fm/uByrq – Network theory is entering enterprise computing # Paper to be presented at ICWSM: http://ping.fm/0oY8Y – see: 113 : Distinguishing Knowledge vs Social Capital in Social Media with Roles … # Heading to the Berkeley iSchool to see friends and colleagues! NISP Photos now at: http://ping.fm/qWY8Q #

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I will lead a workshop with Martha Russell on social network analysis of social media as part of the Stanford Media X Summer Institute on New Metrics for New Media: Analytics for Social Media and Virtual Worlds this Summer.  I am looking forward to working with the folks at Media X which hosts a range of [...]

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There has been significant progress in the NodeXL project!  We have just released version .84 that includes support for “schemes” that can set a collection of display attributes in a single click.  Along with updates to the menu ribbon, NodeXl v.84 is becoming a full featured platform for social network analysis in Excel. http://www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/sets/72157617504025567/ I [...]

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My colleague, Eduarda Mendes-Rodriguez, recently demoed NodeXL at the Microsoft EU Innovation Day event in Brussels, Belgium.  She illustrates the value of network analysis in general with a social network diagram representing the voting patterns of United States Senators in 2007.  The results show the clear party-line clustering and the presence of a few fence sitters, [...]

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