Connected Action

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 [...]

[Read more →]

2011 ASA meetings are being held in Las Vega, Nevada.  Several sessions are related to the study of the social uses and effects of information technology are hosted by the Communications and Information Technology Section of the American Sociological Association (CITASA). These are the connections among the people who recently tweeted the term “ASA2011″ on 18 [...]

[Read more →]

  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 [...]

[Read more →]

On June 22nd in New York City Wired Magazine and the Economist hosted a day of discussions and displays related to the theme of “Nextwork” hosted by Juniper Networks and located at the Tribeca Rooftop. The Social Media Research Foundation displayed and printed  Nextwork Networks maps of the connections among the people who tweeted about the conference, [...]

[Read more →]

Summer Social Webshop on Technology-Mediated Social Participation University of Maryland, College Park August 23-26, 2011 Several years ago a program at the University of Maryland called “Webshop” (Web Workshop) was organized by Professor John Robinson and held for three consecutive Summers.  I visited and spoke at two of these events and know many people who attended or spoke [...]

[Read more →]

Below is one of the few videos of the late sociologist Peter Kollock giving a lecture that I know of.  It is a great example of Peter’s style: entertaining and rich with ideas and insights. The video captures Peter’s talk at Howard Rheingold’s Stanford class on “Literacy of Cooperation” – a review of computer-mediated collective [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

I will be speaking at the Jacob T. Schwartz International School for Scientific Research week long Lipari School on Computational Social Science , July 17 – July 23, 2011, Lipari Island, Italy. This year’s program is dedicated to Computational Social Science: Text and Decisions Speakers: Claudio Cioffi-Revilla: Director of the Center for Social Complexity, Krasnow [...]

[Read more →]

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, [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

I gave a talk at the Personal Digital Archives conference held at the Internet Archive in San Francisco, California on 24 February 2011.  The videos of the talks at the event are now available from the Internet Archive web site. Here is a NodeXL map of the connections among the people who tweeted the term PDA2011 OR PDA11: [...]

[Read more →]

I will be speaking at the next Predictive Analytics World in San Francisco– March 14-15, 2011 about measuring and mapping social media networks with NodeXL: Social Data: Advanced Methods – Social (Media) Network Analysis with NodeXL www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/sanfrancisco/2011/agenda.php#day2-13a Networks are the common data structure that unify the otherwise diverse range of social media services. In this [...]

[Read more →]

On 11 March 2011, I will be speaking at: Organizational and Social Media Network Analysis: Next Practices in Organizational Networks, Analytics and Media Along with Valdis Krebs, Chief Scientist, http://thenetworkthinkers.com/ Valdis will be speaking about Organizational Network Analysis - Introduction to Enterprise Networks, followed by a InFlow 3.1 Workshop: Social Network Analysis with InFlow 3.1 I will be speaking about Social Media Network Analysis with NodeXL. Preservation [...]

[Read more →]

Institute for Communication Technology Management http://www.marshall.usc.edu/faculty/centers/ctm/events On March 10th, 2011 I will speak on a panel at the USC Marshall School of Business Institute for Communication Technology Management Executive Roundtable. TIME: March 10th, 11:00 AM LOCATION: Davidson Conference Center, USC Campus, Los Angeles, California TITLE: “Digital as Platform: Cloud, Apps & Mobile Networks” Moderator: Sherri [...]

[Read more →]

Mapping Social Networks with NodeXL: Finding Direction in a Sea of Connection The Community Foundation for Monterey County has a Social Network Support project that has already applied network analysis techniques to map networks of nonprofit organizations (http://www.cfmco.org/index.cfm/id/18/Social-Network-Support/). They recognize that awareness and improved methods of working in networks can provide opportunities for new ideas, increase [...]

[Read more →]