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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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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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The Jive World 11 conference took place October 4-6, 2011. These are the connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word #JW11 when queried on October 10, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when users reply, mention or follow one another. See: www.jivesoftware.com/jiveworld A larger version of the [...]

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The Association of Internet Researchers conference is occurring now in Seattle, Washington. http://ir12.aoir.org/ These are the  connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word AOIR when queried on October 10, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when users reply, mention or follow one another. See: ir12.aoir.org/ Top most [...]

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The Social Network Importer for NodeXL is a new graph data provider for NodeXL which enables each user to directly download and import their Facebook networks into NodeXL.  With this release, you can now download your own Facebook ego-network for analysis and visualization in NodeXL and other network analysis tools that can import GraphML.  Future releases will extract networks from Fan Pages [...]

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#occupywallstreet continues to be an active topic of social media traffic. Here is the updated map of connections among people who recently tweeted #occupywallstreet: These are the connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word OccupyWallStreet when queried on October 10, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when [...]

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