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Here is a recent slidedeck that provides an overview of NodeXL and social media network analysis.
2009 December NodeXL Overview
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The deck illustrates the use of NodeXL to extract several social media networks from systems like twitter and facebook to generate maps of communities and identify people and objects in key locations.

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On December 15th in Mountain View, California join me for lunch and a workshop on creating social media network diagrams!  We will provide a hands-on guide to creating maps of the collections of connections among people who tweet about various brands, topics, events, and concepts. Bring your own Windows/Office 2007 machine and we will set you [...]

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This is a brief demo video about NodeXL analyzing Twitter social network connections among a group of users who all mentioned the term “digg”.

2009 – November – NodeXL – Demo – Mapping Twitter Social Networks “Digg” from Marc Smith on Vimeo.
This is a good demonstration of several features in NodeXL: social media network importers (in [...]

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Version 95 of NodeXL is hot off the compiler and we are pleased to announce several major features that create a social media network analysis dashboard.  From the NodeXL interface it is now possible to import networks from twitter, flickr, email, and a range of social network file formats.  Coming soon: support for more spigots [...]

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Here is a great piece of social media research from the University of Maryland, College of Information Studies.
Prof. Jen Golbeck and Justin Grimes analyzed 6,000 tweets from United States Congress members.  They found some interaction but a dominant broadcast pattern of use with a focus on self-promotion.  The Washington Post headlines the results as “Tweeting Their [...]

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A recent paper makes use of NodeXL to create illustrations of data from connections among twitter users drawn from the United States presidential debates in October 2008.  One illustration highlights the major clusters in the network.

Tweet the Debates: Understanding Community Annotation of Uncollected Sources

Authors: Shamma, D.A.; Kennedy, L.; Churchill, E.F.
Source: ACM Multimedia, ACM, [...]

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@cuneytuysal Thanks for the NodeXL support! Workshop at C&T: http://twurl.nl/rhtihl See you in Penn State June 24th? http://twurl.nl/ … in reply to cuneytuysal #

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@drnatalie Give me a ring! I am happy to discuss social media studies and findings. in reply to drnatalie #
Visiting U Maryland to meet with the NodeXL research team: students created amazing images with NodeXL and Telligent network data! #
@justgrimes Thanks! It is good to be back at UMD with the NodeXL working [...]

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@plasticbagUK Lalbagh gardens, Bannergahta zoo, MG road all good attractions. Sorry for misspellings. in reply to plasticbagUK #
Heading to Maryland to see Ben Shneiderman, Jenny Preece, and Derek Hansen at U Maryland. #
Photos from Princeton’s CITP – “Studying Society in a Digital World” conference – http://twurl.nl/ajg2fy – great talks about net research #
Visiting Princeton University [...]

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Social Computing 2009 – Call for Papers: Workshop on the Social Mobile Web – http://twurl.nl/gyk8v2 – August in Vancouver, B.C. #
Nice review of Telligent Community Server, Evolution, and Harvest – social media analysis and reporting: http://twurl.nl/tmq2dg #

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@drnatalie Happy to discuss social media network analysis: links of possible interest http://tinyurl.com/36jfla http://tinyurl.com/ff37d in reply to drnatalie #
Thanks to Kate Niederhoffer for a great team talk at Web 2.0 today #w2e #buzzzz – social scientists for social media! #
Thanks to our audience at web 2 – great discussion! Ping me [...]

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My colleague Scott Sargent at Telligent notes that there are two sections of the March 29th Sunday New York Times feature articles illustrated with network graphs.  The Business section runs an article “Is Facebook Growing Up Too Fast?“ (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/technology/internet/29face.html) and the Style Section has an article on The Celebrity Twitter Ecosystem.

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Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #socialmedia #socialnetworking #visualization #
Preparing for a talk at Web 2.0 next week: http://ping.fm/2dAf8 with Kate Neiderhoffer #
@annemai #ocbf2009 Happy to chat, lets find a time! Email marc.smith at telligent.com. Social capital could == cohesion, for example. in reply to annemai #

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