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Sociology and the Internet, Social Media, Networks and Mobile Social Software

2009 April 28: National Initiative for Social Participation meeting at the University of Maryland

May 28th, 2009 · No Comments

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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Tags: Community · Conference · Interdisciplinary · Location · Measuring social media · Metrics · Mobile Devices · Mobile Social Software · Research · Sensors · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social network · Social Roles · Sociology · Uncategorized

Coming soon from NodeXL: v.86 preview and beyond

May 28th, 2009 · No Comments

++ 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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Tags: NodeXL · Social network · Visualization