Connected Action

I spoke at the Social Tech 2010 conference in San Jose on October 26, 2010. The event focused on social media technologies and practices in the business to business space. I spoke on a panel about the application of social network analysis to social media to illustrate the ways SNA can illuminate the shape and key [...]

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I visited the SONIC group at Northwestern University for a talk about social media networks on October 22, 2010.

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CONNECTING THE DOTS A Network Visualization Symposium http://networks.iq.harvard.edu/ Date: October 22, 2010 The first CONNECTING THE DOTS symposium on network visualization organized by Michael Barnett, Jukka-Pekka Onnela, and Samuel Arbesman of The Christakis Lab at Harvard was held on October 22, 2010. Keynote speakers: Alessandro Vespignani, Professor of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington Ben Fry, co-developer of Processing and data [...]

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I spoke at the University of Michigan, School of Information on October 19th, 2010 about “Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Mapping and Measuring Social Media Networks to Find Key Positions and Structures“. I demonstrated the ways social network data sets can be extracted from social media services like Facebook, Twitter, email, YouTube, and [...]

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I am coming to understand what is interesting in any particular network visualization by looking at many network visualizations. Using NodeXL, I have made several maps of  social media networks of people talking about several topics of interest from current events to conferences I attend.  You can find a collection of them on flickr. I [...]

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