Connected Action

The Communities and Technologies conference is holding its 4th meeting in Penn State June 24-27.  This conference gathers a range of scholars interested in online community, social media, social networks, and mobile social software.  A paper “Analyzing (Social Media) Networks with NodeXL” has been accepted for publication in the conference!  Congrats to my co-authors! Paper [...]

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The upcoming Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston June 22-25 features several presentations of possible interest. George Dearing and I will both be on panels and, centrally, there is a presentation from Telligent co-founder Rob Howard about what is new at Telligent Systems: Enterprise 2.0: Work, Productivity and ROI Today’s ever-changing workforce requires that enterprises tackle an array [...]

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For those in the Bay Area there is an event next week of particular interest to community managers, platform developers, researchers, marketers, and software developers: at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View on June 10th is the 2009 Online Community Unconference.  This year 300-400 online community and social media professionals will attend with 50-60 collaborative sessions [...]

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I attended the Maker Faire down the hill in San Mateo at the County Fair Grounds. The event is the gathering of the many forms of craft, tinkering, building, mashup, hacking, and experimental communities. Here are some photos from today’s event. My highlights: the full sized replicas of TV and movie robots from Lost in [...]

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The recent 2009 ICWSM conference featured research into the nature of a wide range of social media. Some highlights: An Examination of Language Use in Online Dating Profiles Meenakshi Nagarajan, Marti Hearst Event Detection and Tracking in Social Streams Hassan Sayyadi, Matthew Hurst, Alexey Maykov Gephi: An Open Source Software for Exploring and Manipulating Networks [...]

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[Vladimir Barash is liveblogging the ICWSM conference] 10.30am A categorical model for discovering latent structure in social annotations (Said Kashoob) Given a collection of web objects, users and tags, can we model the underlying tag generation process? -Discover implict communities of interest? -Categories of related tags? -For given category, id most relevant objs for category [...]

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[Vladimir Barash is liveblogging the ICWSM conference] 9-10AM: A Tempest: Or, on the Flood of Interest in Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining, and the Computational Treatment of Subjective Language (Lillian Lee) -Sentiment analysis using discussion structure: clasify speeches in US congressional floor debates as supporting or opposing proposed legislation -Individual doc classifier -agreement (degree) classifier for [...]

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On Tuesday night Marc Smith and I will be presenting the poster for our paper, “Distinguishing Knowledge vs Social Capital in Social Media with Roles and Context” at the International Conference for Weblogs and Social Media. You can find the poster, co-authored with Marc Smith (Telligent Systems), Lise Getoor (University of Maryland) and Howard T. [...]

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I will lead a workshop with Martha Russell on social network analysis of social media as part of the Stanford Media X Summer Institute on New Metrics for New Media: Analytics for Social Media and Virtual Worlds this Summer.  I am looking forward to working with the folks at Media X which hosts a range of [...]

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My colleague, Eduarda Mendes-Rodriguez, recently demoed NodeXL at the Microsoft EU Innovation Day event in Brussels, Belgium.  She illustrates the value of network analysis in general with a social network diagram representing the voting patterns of United States Senators in 2007.  The results show the clear party-line clustering and the presence of a few fence sitters, [...]

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This year’s CITASA awards have been announced!  CITASA is the Communications and Information Technology section of the American Sociological Association.  It gathers together more than 300 sociologists interested in the ways groups of people make use of computation and networks. This year the line up is uniformly high quality scholarship about the nature of societies [...]

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Our (Vladimir D. Barash, Marc Smith, Lise Getoor, Howard T. Welser ) poster paper, Distinguishing Knowledge vs Social Capital in Social Media with Roles and Context  has been accepted and published at the 2009 ICWSM (International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media) conference which will be held in San Jose, California this May 17, 2009 – [...]

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I attended the “Studying Society In A Digital World” conference at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University.  They just posted most of the conference slides.  I took some pictures and have inserted them next to the link for slides where I had a picture (or a good one!).  The conference was very [...]

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Kate Niederhoffer and I presented a combined view of social media from the perspectives of social psychology and sociology.  Kate applies a linguistic background to analyze the content of social media while I bring social network analysis to bear on the structures created by connections created by links and replies. Beyond Buzz – Web 2.0 [...]

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#ocbf2009 Measuring social capital produced by social media – could use social network metrics-see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrality # At the Online Community Business Forum after a dead battery adds an hour to trip- thanks to Christine for helping me back on road! #Ocbf2009 # Heading to Online Community Business Forum in Sonoma tomorrow AM! http://twurl.nl/4uril7 #ocbf2009 # [...]

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