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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 Title: Analyzing [...]

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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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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 [...]

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C&T is June 25-27. NodeXL tutorial the day before. http://twurl.nl/ch06in Lots of great social media researchers will be there! #
Final edits with Vlad for our Communities and Technologies 2009 paper about NodeXL: viz enterprise social networks in Excel. #
@katenieder Granovetter “Weak Ties” = American journal of sociology, 1973 in reply to katenieder [...]

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Kate Niederhoffer and I presented a combined view of social media from the perspectives of social psychology and sociology.  Kate applies a linguistic background to analyze the content of social media while I bring social network analysis to bear on the structures created by connections created by links and replies.
Beyond Buzz – Web 2.0 Expo [...]

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The on-going NodeXL project team has a few new milestones!
Recently NodeXL crossed the 5,000 downloads mark!
I will present workshops on the use of NodeXL  at International Network for Social Network Analysis “Sunbelt” conference in San Diego in March 2009 and Communities and Technologies 2009 in June at Penn State.  More interesting are the classes being [...]

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Forester recently released its review of leading social media platforms.
They conclude that communities are a powerful way for businesses to grow.  Community and social media have ROI!
The segment is getting crowded, over 100 vendors and growing, but only few cleared Forrester’s threshold for robustness and feature richness.

Forrester evaluated nine social media platforms in depth and [...]

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