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Entries from December 2009

RWTH Aachen – Browse ACM conference networks over the web

December 19th, 2009 · No Comments

There are hundreds of conferences sponsored by the ACM on almost every topic related to computing.  In some cases the same person will publish a paper in more than one conference, creating a tie between them.  Below is a network map application that displays a collection of ACM conferences connected by this authorship tie: http://bosch.informatik.rwth-aachen.de:5080/AERCS/Networks.jsp [...]

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Tags: Aachen · Data Mining · Interdisciplinary · Metrics · Research · Social Media · Social network · Social Network Analysis · University · Visualization · Web Application

Slides: NodeXL overview: social media network analysis

December 17th, 2009 · No Comments

Here is a recent slidedeck that provides an overview of NodeXL and social media network analysis. 2009 December NodeXL Overview View more presentations from Marc Smith. The deck illustrates the use of NodeXL to extract several social media networks from systems like twitter and facebook to generate maps of communities and identify people and objects [...]

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Tags: Collective Action · Connected Action · Data Mining · NodeXL · Research · Social Media · Social network · Twitter · Visualization

Book: Communities in Cyberspace – Ten Years Later

December 15th, 2009 · 4 Comments

When the late Peter Kollock and I published Communities in Cyberspace with Routledge in 1999 there were few broadband connections, no iPhones, and little WiFi.  Today, there is an ebook version of the book and Amazon sells a version for the Kindle, a device it was hard to even imagine when the book was written.  [...]

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Tags: Book · Collective Action · Common Goods · Community · Data Mining · Measuring social media · Metrics · Research · Social Media · Social Roles · Sociology

Call for Papers – ICWSM 2010 – Washington, D.C. May 23-26

December 14th, 2009 · No Comments

Here is the Call for Papers for the Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-10) May 23-26, 2010 George Washington University, Washington, DC Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence IMPORTANT DATES: Tutorial Proposals: December 1, 2009 Paper Submission: January 8, 2010 Poster/Demo Submission: January 8, 2010 Paper Acceptance: [...]

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Tags: Conference · Data Mining · Ecology · Interdisciplinary · Measuring social media · Metrics · Papers · Research · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social network · Sociology · Talks · Technology

flickr user, tag, and photo networks are now available in NodeXL

December 13th, 2009 · No Comments

NodeXL has had a rudimentary flickr tag network data spigot for some time but we have just added a number of features to this data importer that makes it much more useful. You can now select the number of network levels to include, an optional sample image file can be included for each tag, and [...]

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Tags: flickr · Measuring social media · Metrics · NodeXL · Social Media · Social network · Visualization

Video: Panel Discussion from November 19: Using Social Media to Grow and Market Your Business

December 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Video is now available from a panel hosted by the Women’s Affinity Group of O’Melveny & Myers’ Silicon Valley Office in Menlo Park on November 19th.  Along with Karla Spormann, President and CEO Tendo Communications, Martin Eberhard, Co-founder and former CEO Tesla Motors, Patrick Ewers, Founder, Mindmavin LLC.  We spoke about “Using Social Media to Grow [...]

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Tags: Measuring social media · NodeXL · Social Media · Social network · Talks

Book: Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice

December 13th, 2009 · No Comments

The Second Conference on Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice (OD2005/DIAC-2005) was held at Stanford University May 20-22, 2005. From that event there is now a book,  Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice, edited by Todd Davies and Seeta Peña Gangadharan (CSLI Publications, November 2009).  All content in the book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share [...]

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Tags: Book · Collective Action · Measuring social media · Papers · Politics · Research · Social Media · Social network · Social Roles · Sociology · Stanford · Technology