Connected Action

The network created by “Who follows who among the people who tweeted “#CHI2010″. Node size is proportional to total tweets. Generated with NodeXL On October 29th, I will be offering a workshop in Mountain View, California on the application of social network analysis to the measurement of social media. The workshop will run from 9m [...]

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This weekend is the Social Computing 2009 conference in Vancouver, B.C.  It is a gathering of many people doing research on social media useage.  Many papers are about tagging systems, blogs, wikis, message boards, and social networking services. Along with several co-authors, I contributed to three papers in this year’s conference: First Steps to Netviz [...]

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A shout out to my co-authors Eric Gleave, Howard (“Ted”) Welser, and Tom Lento – our paper “A conceptual and operational definition of “Social Role” in Online Community” got the best paper award at HICSS-42!  The Hawaii International Conference of System Sciences has featured a great series of mini tracks over the years.  The Persistent [...]

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Forester recently released its review of leading social media platforms. They conclude that communities are a powerful way for businesses to grow.  Community and social media have ROI! The segment is getting crowded, over 100 vendors and growing, but only few cleared Forrester’s threshold for robustness and feature richness. Forrester evaluated nine social media platforms [...]

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International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) 2008 Some dimensions of social media Marc Smith Talk reviews sociological concepts of social media and visualizations of computer-mediated collective behavior. Slides: 2008 – ICWSM – Marc Smith – Some Dimensions Of Social Media View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: telligent marc)

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I will be presenting an overview of social media visualization soon at the conference on Visualization and Data Analysis 2009 in San Jose, January 19th,2009  (http://vw.indiana.edu/vda2009/) 9:30 am: Invited Presentation: Visualizing Roles in Social Media, Marc A. Smith, Chief Social Scientist for the Telligent Corporation (http://www.telligent.com) Abstract: Social media systems on the Internet allow for [...]

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After ten years at Microsoft Research I have decided it is time to move on.  My time at MSR has been a remarkable one.  I have had the opportunity to work with very smart and focused people intent on making technical strides on many defining aspects of computing.  It has been a pleasure to work [...]

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