Connected Action

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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On March 1st I will speak at the 2012 Strata Conference in Santa Clara, California about: Mapping social media networks (with no coding) using NodeXL Time: 16:50 on 01 Mar 2012. Session type: 40 minute presentation Topics: Visualization & Interface Description: Maps of the complex connections that form when people link, like, reply, rate, review, [...]

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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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I will be speaking at the next Predictive Analytics World in San Francisco– March 14-15, 2011 about measuring and mapping social media networks with NodeXL: Social Data: Advanced Methods – Social (Media) Network Analysis with NodeXL www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/sanfrancisco/2011/agenda.php#day2-13a Networks are the common data structure that unify the otherwise diverse range of social media services. In this [...]

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On 11 March 2011, I will be speaking at: Organizational and Social Media Network Analysis: Next Practices in Organizational Networks, Analytics and Media Along with Valdis Krebs, Chief Scientist, http://thenetworkthinkers.com/ Valdis will be speaking about Organizational Network Analysis - Introduction to Enterprise Networks, followed by a InFlow 3.1 Workshop: Social Network Analysis with InFlow 3.1 I will be speaking about Social Media Network Analysis with NodeXL. Preservation [...]

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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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I spoke about social media with Natalia Martín Cantero, RTVE blogger and professor in digital new reporting at IE School of Communication-IE University in Segovia, Spain along with my colleague John Kelly, from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University and Founder of Morningside Analytics. The video was recorded at the symposium on Transnational connections: Challenges and opportunities for communication. In this [...]

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I am joining Media-X at Stanford University as a visiting scholar. I will work with Martha Russell and Chuck House in applying social network analysis to social media research. You can email me at masmith1@stanford.edu! Our next event will be in late July and will focus on the use of social media analysis for mapping patterns [...]

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In March, 2010 I had the pleasure of attending and speaking in Segovia, Spain at the IE University Department of Communication at the symposium on Transnational connections: Challenges and opportunities for communication. The symposium is organized with Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.  I participated in a video interview with several [...]

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Not all ties are the same.  Many networks are collections of multiplex relationships: multiple types of ties link the entities in the graph. NodeXL now (v.1.0.1.120) supports edge styles so that links can have color, width, and style to distinguish their nature in a network visualization. Edge Styles include: solid, dash, dot, dash-dot, and so [...]

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Along with my colleague Eduarda Mendes-Rodriguez I will be speaking at the University of Porto next Friday, March 26th. Hands-on Workshop – Social Media Network Analysis in NodeXL This workshop provides an overview of Social Network Analysis (SNA) and its application to social media. The network or directed graph is a common structure in a wide range [...]

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I will attend and speak at a symposium being heldMarch 24-25, 2010 at the IE University Department of Communication in Segovia, Spain.  The topic is: Transnational connections: Challenges and opportunities for communication. “The Symposium aims to generate discussion on cutting-edge ideas in political communication, encourage international cooperation and unite scholars and practitioners.” The symposium is organized with Center [...]

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