My colleagues Derek Hansen and Ben Shneiderman (University of Maryland) and I have just finished the second version of our tutorial/manual for the NodeXL social network analysis toolkit for Excel. The latest version of the tutorial Analyzing Social Media Networks: Learning by Doing with NodeXL is now available from the University of Maryland Center for [...]
Entries from June 2009
New Tutorial Available: Analyzing Social Media Networks: Learning by Doing with NodeXL
June 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Collective Action · Data Mining · Measuring social media · Metrics · NodeXL · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social network · Social Roles · Sociology · Visualization
June 24th: NodeXL Tutorial with Derek Hansen at Communities and Technologies 2009 (Penn State University)
June 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Derek Hansen (University of Maryland) and I will be running a workshop as part of the Communities and Technologies conference next week in University Park, PA. We have room for additional participants. If anyone is interested, please email me (marc.smith@telligent.com) or Derek (shakmatt@gmail.com). If there is sufficient interest by those in the DC or Bay [...]
Tags: C&T · Conference · Data Mining · Foundation · Measuring social media · Metrics · Network Data Archives · Network data providers (spigots) · Network metrics and measures · Network visualization layouts · NodeXL · Research · SMRF · Social Media · Social Media Research Foundation · Social network · Social Network Analysis · Social Theories and concepts · Sociology · Talks · University · Visualization
Paper: Reader-to-Leader Framework: Motivating Technology-Mediated Social Participation, Preece & Shneiderman
June 17th, 2009 · 4 Comments
I just read a new paper from Jennifer Preece and Ben Shneiderman that provides a nice framework for the ways people contribute at different rates to collective projects in general and social media on the Internet in particular. Preece, Jennifer and Shneiderman, Ben (2009). The Reader-to-Leader Framework: Motivating Technology-Mediated Social Participation, AIS Transactions on Human-Computer [...]
Tags: Collective Action · Common Goods · Community · Papers · Research · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social network · Sociology
2009 – C&T – NodeXL and Social Queries – a social media network analysis tool kit
June 8th, 2009 · No Comments
The Communities and Technologies conference is holding its 4th meeting in Penn State June 24-27. This conference gathers a range of scholars interested in online community, social media, social networks, and mobile social software. A paper “Analyzing (Social Media) Networks with NodeXL” has been accepted for publication in the conference! Congrats to my co-authors! Paper [...]
Tags: Conference · NodeXL · Papers · Research · Social network · Sociology · Visualization
Conference: Enterprise 2.0 in Boston, June 22-25
June 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment
The upcoming Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston June 22-25 features several presentations of possible interest. George Dearing and I will both be on panels and, centrally, there is a presentation from Telligent co-founder Rob Howard about what is new at Telligent Systems: Enterprise 2.0: Work, Productivity and ROI Today’s ever-changing workforce requires that enterprises tackle an array [...]
Tags: Community · Conference · Industry · Measuring social media · Metrics · Social Media · Technology
Event: June 10, Online Community Unconference 2009
June 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
For those in the Bay Area there is an event next week of particular interest to community managers, platform developers, researchers, marketers, and software developers: at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View on June 10th is the 2009 Online Community Unconference. This year 300-400 online community and social media professionals will attend with 50-60 collaborative sessions [...]
Tags: Community · Conference · Industry · Measuring social media · Metrics · Research · Social Media · Sociology · Talks · Technology
