Connected Action

I will speak this March 4th at the 2012 Predictive Analytics World in San Francisco about ” Crowd Photography for Social Media“. http://www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/sanfrancisco/2012/speakers.php http://www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/sanfrancisco/2012/agenda.php# Monday @ 5:25-5:45pm Track 1: Social Data Case Study: Social Media Research Foundation Crowd Photography for Social Media Crowds of people gather in social media around many products, services, businesses, and [...]

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On March 1st I will speak at the 2012 Strata Conference in Santa Clara, California about: Mapping social media networks (with no coding) using NodeXL Time: 16:50 on 01 Mar 2012. Session type: 40 minute presentation Topics: Visualization & Interface Description: Maps of the complex connections that form when people link, like, reply, rate, review, [...]

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I will present a talk at Personal Digital Archiving 2012 titled “Arc-chiving: saving social links for study“. The conference will be held on Thursday-Friday, February 23-24, 2012 at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. News and updates on the conference will be posted at the conference web site, http://personalarchiving.com. My talk this year will focus on [...]

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Online Ticketing powered by Eventbrite NodeXL Event at IFTF, Thursday, December 15, 2011 Along with the Social Media Research Foundation, the Institute for the Future is co-hosting a meetup for those interested in mapping social media networks. Users of tools like NodeXL and Gephi (among others) are welcome to join us for an evening devoted to collecting, [...]

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Mastering Social Media 2011 is a workshop scheduled for November 28 and 30 in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa. My partner, Walter Pike, is a Marketing Maven and Founder of PiKE | New Marketing (www.pike.co.za) and the founder of the Digital Academy www.digitalacademy.co.za He blogs at walterpike.com. Mastering Social Media will give you practical tools on how to plan, [...]

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Methodologies for Web and Social Media Data Analysis in Social Science and Policy Research CCSR Short Course Social Media Network Analysis using NodeXL November 9th  9.00 am – 5.30 pm. Marc Smith Social Media Research Foundation http://www.smrfoundation.org Course Summary: Networks are everywhere in the natural and social world.  New tools are making the task of [...]

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&  On November 9th and 10th, 2011 the LocalSocialSummit11 will be held in London. On Thursday morning, November 10th, Doctor Bernie Hogan from the Oxford Internet Institute and member of the Social Media Research Foundation will speak on the topic: Insights: Social Network Analysis On Facebook Data, with a local twist Thursday at 3:45 I [...]

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  I presented on social media network analysis on October 20, 2011 in New York City at Predictive Analytics World. A map of the connections among the people tweeting about the #Pawcon hashtag is below. Network Maps for End Users: Collect, Analyze, Visualize and Communicate Network Insights with Zero Coding Abstract: Networks are everywhere except [...]

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The Jive World 11 conference took place October 4-6, 2011. These are the connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word #JW11 when queried on October 10, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when users reply, mention or follow one another. See: www.jivesoftware.com/jiveworld A larger version of the [...]

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The Association of Internet Researchers conference is occurring now in Seattle, Washington. http://ir12.aoir.org/ These are the  connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word AOIR when queried on October 10, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when users reply, mention or follow one another. See: ir12.aoir.org/ Top most [...]

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This year the IEEE Social Computing conference is being held in Boston, October 9-11, 2011. The NodeXL team from the Social Media Research Foundation have a paper on our newest layout feature in NodeXL: Group-in-a-box. Abstract: Communities in social networks emerge from interactions among individuals and can be analyzed through a combination of clustering and [...]

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The Future of Technology in Education workshop met on 7 October 2011 in London at the University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) to discuss the ways technology is changing the learning experience. The hashtag for the event is #FOTE11 so I made a NodeXL SNA Map – The following is a map of the connections among the [...]

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Here is an updated map of the connections among people who recently tweeted the term “Oracle”: Connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word Oracle when queried on October 5, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when users reply, mention or follow one another. Top most between users: [...]

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  The Workshop on Information in Networks 2011 was held at NYU September 30-October 1st. Over the course of the event a number of people tweeted using the hashtag #win2011. These are the connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word win2011 when queried on October 3, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers [...]

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WikiSym 2011,  the conference on Wiki and open collaboration research took place October 3-5 in Mountain View, California. At the end of the conference on October 5th, the network of connections among the people who tweeted about Wikisym looked like this: These are the connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word wikisym [...]

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