Connected Action

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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The Social Media Research Foundation is pleased to announce the immediate availability of ThreadMill 0.1.  ThreadMill is a free and open application that consumes message thread data and produces reports about each author, thread, forum, and board along with visualizations of the patterns of connection and activity.  ThreadMill is written in Ruby, and depends on [...]

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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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I have enjoyed and been educated by my previous visits to South Africa and the Mobile Web in Africa conference, now in its 3rd year. MWA gathers the many parts of the picture of mobile technologies in play across the African continent. I will speak again at this year’s event, focusing on social media networks.  [...]

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Bits exist along a gradient from private to public.  But in practice they only move in one direction. Thus, there are two destinies for information: public or oblivion. Information wants to be copied. This is not the same as information wanting to be free (or expensive), or information wanting *you* to be free.  Information probably [...]

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The Royal Wedding is a topic of great interest around the world. This is a map of the connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the words #rw2011 when queried on April 28, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded), connected by replying, mentioning and following. Layout using the “Group Layout” composed [...]

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http://www.ischools.org/iConference11/2011index/ Our paper, Finding Social Roles in Wikipedia,  about the variety of  roles people perform in Wikis received the best paper award (along with 4 others) in a field of 86 papers.   The 2011 iConference accepted 86 papers, and had about 550 attendees. The paper is authored by: Howard T. Welser at Ohio University, [...]

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Web Science Doctoral Summer School 2011 I will be attending and speaking at the upcoming 2011 Web Science Trust Graduate Summer School tobe held at DERI, NUI Galway Ireland from July 6th to July 13th, 2011.  I will speak about social media network analysis and run a workshop on using NodeXL.  There is a packed [...]

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The United States State of the Union address this year will be held Tuesday evening, 25 January 2011. The event is a globally visible opportunity for the President of the United States to present the Administration’s vision for its agenda for the year to the people of the US and the world. The hashtag #stateoftheunion [...]

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A recent paper “EventGraphs: Charting Collections of Conference Connections” by Marc Smith from Connected Action, Professor Derek Hansen (College of Information Studies) and Professor Ben Shneiderman (Computer Science/Human Computer Interaction Lab) both from the University of Maryland and has been accepted for publication at the 2011 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) Conference.  This is the 44th year for the conference. [...]

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The Second Workshop on Information in Networks September 24-25, 2010, New York City Sponsored in part by the Initiative on Information in Networks Organizers: Sinan Aral, Foster Provost, Arun Sundararajan The second Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN10) will be held this year September 24-25, 2010, again in New York City. From the program description: [...]

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+ This is a milestone for NodeXL! Prof. Robert Ackland from the Australian Demographic & Social Research Institute (ADSRI) at the Australian National University has created a data provider for NodeXL based on the VOSON (Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks) Project. With the VOSON Data Provider Plugin for NodeXL, you can now access [...]

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Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-10) ***Microblogging 2*** Predicting Elections with Twitter: What 140 Characters Reveal about Political Sentiment (Tumasjan et al.) Successful use of social media in las presidential campaign has established twitter as an integral part of political campaign toolbox Goal: analyze on Twitter: 1. Deliberation, 2. Sentiment, 3. [...]

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Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-10) We will be liveblogging (when possible) from ICWSM 2010, going on now! Keynote: Bob Kraut, CMU implications for community design -offline theories of socialization helpful, not definitive -online communities can build in good socialization practice -e.g. WP welcoming committee Two Types of Commitments to Groups [...]

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The oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is a topic of great concern to many people in twitter. This is the map of connections among people who tweeted the term “oil spill”.  There are lots of isolated authors, people who tweeted “oil spill” but are not connected to anyone else who said the [...]

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