Connected Action

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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&  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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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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    Summer Social Webshop on Technology-Mediated Social Participation University of Maryland, College Park August 23-26, 2011 Eventful.  The 2011 Webshop at the University of Maryland was certainly that with both an earthquake and a hurricane to mark the start and end of the event.  We really moved heaven and earth at this workshop. In 4  days, 20 talks, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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The NodeXL team at the Social Media Research Foundation is happy to announce the availability of the newest version: there is lots of new stuff in the latest release of NodeXL v.1.0.1.167! Group Frames: If your graph has groups and you choose to lay out the groups in their own boxes (NodeXL, Graph, Layout, Layout [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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Attractive and well designed network visualization layouts are complex to automate.  Many researchers have devoted a great deal of effort to refining algorithms that assign the best set of positions to a set of nodes.  In many cases a layout algorithm will work well for some types of graphs and not others.  NodeXL has a [...]

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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 [...]

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A recent paper “EventGraphs: Charting Collections of Conference Connections” by Marc Smith from Connected Action, Professor Derek Hansen (College of Information Studies) and Professor Ben Shneiderman (Computer Science/Human Computer Interaction Lab) both from the University of Maryland and has been accepted for publication at the 2011 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) Conference.  This is the 44th year for the conference. [...]

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I visited the SONIC group at Northwestern University for a talk about social media networks on October 22, 2010.

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