Connected Action

Interested in applying social network methods to better understand the structure of your business or organization? In collaboration with Optimice, I will teach a workshop on Social Network Analysis for enterprises, organizations, and businesses using NodeXL. Self-paced e-learning (4 hours) Introduction to Social/Organisational Network Analysis Network patterns and metrics Software tools for network analysis Managing [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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&  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 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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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 #Occupywallstreet movement is growing and lots of activity is taking place in social media.  Here is a map of the connections among the people who recently tweeted the term “#occupywallstreet” on 8 October 2011. Link: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/6225446144/ Each user is scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when users reply, mention or [...]

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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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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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