Connected Action

I will speak and lead a workshop on social media network analysis at Syracuse University on the 19th and 20th of January, 2012. Ines Mergel is my host.  Prof. Mergel is Assistant Professor of Public Administration, Department of Public Administration and International Affairs, and a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Technology and Information Policy at the Maxwell School of [...]

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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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Both teaparty and occupywallstreet are actively discussed in twitter. This map of connections among people who tweeted Teaparty starts on 11/15/2011 14:22 UTC and ends on 11/15/2011 17:23, a total of 3 hours and 1 minute of traffic. The Teaparty data set contained 1,533 tweets, replies and mentions. Blue edges are connections created by replies [...]

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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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I will speak at the International Symposium on Convergence Technology (ConTech 2011) – Smart & Humane World – on November 3rd in Seoul, South Korea. Date: 2011 November 3 (Thurs) Place: COEX Grand Ballroom, Seoul, Korea Organized by Advanced Institutes of Convergence Technologies (AICT), Seoul National University (SNU) In Cooperation with Ministry of Knowledge Economy, [...]

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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 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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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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I will speak at Purdue University on September 22 and 23, 2011 about mapping social media networks. My host is Sorin Matei, professor of Communications, who has been researching the social structure of social media networks. I will also speak at Professor Matei’s class: COM 63200 On-line Interaction and Facilitation Here is an example map of [...]

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  Please vote on our SxSW 2012 panel: Social Mapping : Bridging Online & Offline Events   Event Interactive 2012 Format Workshop Organizer Emily Gannett ‐ IRL Productions Speakers Marc Smith ‐ Social Media Research Foundation Description Look up from your phone and you will notice that offline is not obsolete. Experiences in real life (IRL) remain powerful and memorable. Online [...]

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The ACM CHI 2011 Conference is taking place in Vancouver, BC. May 10, 2011 May 8, 2011 These are the connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word chi2011 when queried on May 8, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when users reply, mention or follow one another. [...]

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The NodeXL team at the Social Media Research Foundation is happy to announce the availability of the newest version: there is lots of new stuff in the latest release of NodeXL v.1.0.1.167! Group Frames: If your graph has groups and you choose to lay out the groups in their own boxes (NodeXL, Graph, Layout, Layout [...]

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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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I will be speaking at the Oxford Internet Institute on July 13 and 14, 2011 as part of the Summer Doctoral Program. I will speak about the use of social network analysis and visualization techniques to analyze and understand social media. The Summer Doctoral Program is designed to …bring together advanced doctoral students engaged in dissertation [...]

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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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