Connected Action

My colleague George Barnett has edited the Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis. I contributed four entries with co-authors: WWW Hyperlink Networks with Robert Ackland, Australian National University Email networks with Derek Hansen, Brigham Young University Blog networks with John Kelly, Morningside Analytics, Harvard Berkman Center Facebook networks with Bernie Hogan, Oxford Internet Institute Description: This [...]

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This is the collection of keyword pairs that appeared in two clusters of people who Tweeted about “Paul Ryan”, the Republican Congressman from Wisconsin who delivered the GOP rebuttal to the 2011 United States State of the Union Address.  This network illustrates the ways that certain word pairs appears only or predominantly in one cluster (colored [...]

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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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&  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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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 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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This year the IEEE Social Computing conference is being held in Boston, October 9-11, 2011. The NodeXL team from the Social Media Research Foundation have a paper on our newest layout feature in NodeXL: Group-in-a-box. Abstract: Communities in social networks emerge from interactions among individuals and can be analyzed through a combination of clustering and [...]

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